Personally work in IT, mostly fixing server and infrastructure. Big fan of listening to ambiance music while working: the kind of music and sounds that make you forget that you’re listening to it, to me, that’s the perfect kind of working music. Otherwise I will listen to game and movie soundtracks from Lotr, Star Wars, Ghilbi, Harry Potter etc… I used to be all into lofi, but need a break from it now.
Anyways, please share your favorite music to listen to while working, and let us know what you work as too! More fun to see how the profession match with music taste.
Have a nice rest of your day 🌻
Lots of synthwave and electronica. But mostly without lyrics (I hesitate to say instrumental, since y’know, it’s all electronic). I’m a software developer, and I find words too distracting.
I have a hard time listening to that music when I’m not working, since it tends to be painfully repetitive.
Hey, synths are instruments so they definitely fall under instrumental music.
shows what I know
Metal. Mostly death metal, melodeath and deathcore.
Gotta be loud, fast and angry. Gotta get shit done, can’t be listening to anything relaxing.
Exactly!
If I need to do any thinking at all - complete silence
If I do not need to do any thinking - edutainment podcasts, mostly space stuff (Universe Today, Astronomy Cast, etc.)If I need to do any thinking at all - complete silence
This is me. My brain just goes to mush if I have anything playing. Not sure if you have ADHD, but…
Programmer here.
Infected Mushroom or Eskimo for when I’m in the zone and pumping out code.
For debugging: Boards of Canada, Plaid, Lone, Ciaran Byrne
Ah, beautiful Plaid
Plaid is one of my all time favorites! Got to see them a few years back. If you like them, check out an artist called IDGlitch on SoundCloud. Super underrated and the closest thing I’ve heard to plaid:
Saved it for my code pumping sessions!
I think Spotify called it “indie electro hacker Thursday”.
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Software Engineer here. I listen to a lot of Explosions In The Sky to work.
The sound of silence. Not the song, but the actual sound.
Unrelated, but…
Australia, you were this close to winning Eurovision. (Context: their entry into the 2016 contest was called “Sound of Silence”)
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Usually Trance or Drum n Bass. Rhythmic with few lyrics.
J-pop/Mando-pop. I’m trying to pick up Canto-pop too but not being able to read the script makes it super hard.
My brain thought Mando-pop was some sort of weird take on the music from the Mandalorian (often referred to as Mando).
Im a mail carrier and I rock audiobooks all day.
I work from home a lot so I can use my record player, and I’ve got all kinds of stuff ranging from Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey to Electric Wizard and Monolord. I write for a gaming website on the side and often get sent soundtracks to review, so I can spend ages on that as well. It’s mostly what I’m in the mood for, although if I need to concentrate it has to be something without lyrics or I lose focus.
At my current job I can’t really listen to anything. At my previous job I mostly listened to NPR.
When I’m at home doing chores, I tend to like sea shanties, most of them were literally made for doing monotonous bullshit, so it’s fitting.
Doing stuff outside of my normal chores, I tend to listen to a lot of folk metal.
I listen to classical, WETA or WFMT or WCPE by default. Sometimes I listen to college radio to hear stuff I don’t know about. Today I listened to a concert by Tom Waits in 1977.
Work in a restaurant so I need music that can match my pace. Usually this means metal (death metal/ metal core) but recently been going on a grunge kick and some 80s punk and prog.
