Music!

What do you listen to?

[onionringofdoom]

What kind of music do you like to listen to when you code? For me, it's a nice jazz groove. I'm a big fan of The Cinematic Orchestra [cinematicorchestra.com], a sort of modern jazz group which incorporates various elements of electronica.

[mack]

Rap, hip-hop :)

Mack.

[Debbie_King]

Maybe something soulful and enigmatic, like Massive Attack or the Doves...

[ska_demon]

Ska
Reggae
Old Skool Punk
Some Pop Punk
Drum n Bass (old skool junglist massive)
and loads n loads of other stuff from Anthrax to Manu Chao.

I love music so it doesn't matter waht i listen to when I work

Ska

[onionringofdoom]

If you like soulfull, you should check out Morcheeba [morcheeba.co.uk], a british trip-hop trio. Kinda like Massive Attack (which is also currently on my playlist), only a bit more upbeat and soulful.

[roscoepico]

Hip hop. I'm feeling the new Common album, Be. Roots, Mos Def, Talib..I guess it's more conscious rap than anything else.

[Old_Honky]

I prefer talk radio, I find it to be less intrusive in my thought patterns as I try to figure out what the hell I'm doing.

[mattglet]

Anything from Rap to Metal.

Lots of Tool, Deftones, Metallica, Terror Squad, 2Pac, etc.

Anything that's fast paced and energetic.

[D_Blackwell]

Internet station Hober [hober.com]
"Worldwide Folk" is as close as I can describe it. Unique.

[PyrettaBlaze]

Anything from metal to oldies, but I am mostly a headbanger...
What I listen to on a weekly/daily basis:
Coheed and Cambria
Cradle of Filth
Type O Negative
Muse
Yellowcard
Slipknot
System of a Down
and anything from the Headbanger's Ball Tour cd.
:)

[kodaks]

I usually don't listen to music when I code, but when I do I listed to the Trans Siberian Ochestra. It's the only kind of "classical" music that I will get near :)

[Essex_boy]

System of a down, Sisters of mercy, Kirsty Macoll, Suzanne vega a wide range!

cant stand to listen to music when Im working breaks my(limited) concentration.

[Namaste]

what do you download music with?
I use iMesh

what do you stream music with?
mainly Winamp

[kodaks]

what do you download music with?

Napster Canada (yep, i like to keep things legal :) )

what do you stream music with?

Windows Media

[nutsandbolts]

Bluegrass,
House Music,
Old Skool Hip Hop,
Classical,
Ambient,
Rock and Pop

:)

[RonPK]

Cardigans, CC Adcock, Verdi's Requiem (although a part of it still scares the &*$% out of me when I'm concentrated), and the odd bit of ABBA ;)

Sources: my old cd's, iTunes (yes, I sometimes pay for downloads), LimeWire, BitTorrent (hey, downloading is not illegal ;)

[iamlost]

Silence

Except the birds in the trees :-)

[Sarah Atkinson]

In my car to in from work I've been listing to massive doeses of The Phantom of the Opera... cleaned the house up a little and found some of my old CDs.

I love "Itsumo Nando-Demo" by Youmi Kimura
but I'm too cheap to buy the CD

[MatthewHSE]

Classical, classical, and a little more classical! ;)

My favorites are Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and some of Michael Pratorias' (sp?) music. I also have a few CD's of classical hymns that I listen to a lot.

Lots of folks consider this pretty boring taste, but I like it.

[Sweet Cognac]

"Boris Grebenshikov and Aquarium"

"Dead Can Dance"

[martinibuster]

I saw the Chemical Brothers opening for New Order recently, so I've been listening to that.
Electronic music in general, I like
then there is The Cure
Current 93
Nurse with Wound
Coil
Sisters of Mercy
Monteverdi
Schubert
Beethoven
Assorted Brazilian stuff
Assorted Childrens Music (with my kid, I just bought my one year old daughter her first bookshelf system and she asks for music first thing in the morning. Ha!)
Buckwheat Zydeco
Mose Allison
Heroes de Silencio
Orbital
Mingus
Bill Evans
Art Farmer (Modern Art)
Cocteau Twins
Wire
Paul Simon
Abba

Sheesh. The list goes on and on...

[Namaste]

I listen to the music on the Winamp music channels, especially all the New Age, Deephouse and Acid Jazz.

[edited by: lawman at 9:21 pm (utc) on June 12, 2005]

[kodaks]

I also listen HitzRadio a lot, some of today's music is allright IMO.

[edited by: lawman at 9:21 pm (utc) on June 12, 2005]

[Essex_boy]

she asks for music first thing in the morning. Ha - I have a friend with a daughter of about 2, she has a natural grasp of beats.

Depending on the music playing she'll dance without instruction in the correct style. I.e heavy metal she'll head bang and classical music she'll dance like a ballerina. Shes never receievd any dance instruction and both parents arent dance orientated.

It is truly wonderful to watch.

Seeing ABBA listed, another mate had her car broken into the stereo and CDS were stolen but the theif left the ABBA ones behind!

[buttoxicated]

My most favorite bands and artists:
Beck, Frank Zappa, Mr Bungle, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Massive Attack, Portishead, Jeff Buckley, Opeth, Radiohead, The Pixies, Prince, Soundgarden, Spinvis, Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Mars Volta, Common, Damien Rice, Fela Kuti, Funkadelic, DJ Shadow.

[ronin]

At present I'm listening to The Killers, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs and Snow Patrol... I have a soft spot for KT Tunstall as well.

Oh, and Snowdon by the Doves is gorgeous.

[iDKris]

ronin, sounds like we have a similar taste in music. kaiser chiefs, snow patrol, doves, pinback, the postal service, the low life, the dears, kutless, matchbox romance, tears for fears, and i love when my music is on random and sinatra comes on. also like hans zimmer. does a lot of the composing for movies like gladiator, troy, last samurai.

music is always a great topic because you can almost always find a new group to listen to.

[vabtz]

martinibuster: you and my wife would get along

I listen to moby, Classical visa via NPR, sadly Oakenfold cause I listen to trance still ( sad I know ), BT, Paul Simon, Gordon Lightfoot, and Anything with some beeps and blips and someold movie quote in the background saying something like "the system is down... the system is down..."