Depends on my mood.

Happy: Necroticgorebeast Sad: Necroticgorebeast Tired: Necroticgorebeast Bored: Necroticgorebeast

Also, in a meeting: Necroticgorebeast

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.

About 90 seconds of alt rock, then someone will get my attention to ask a question, I'll take my headphones off, then sit for three hours with them on my neck until I remember to put them on again.

Metal. Mostly death metal, melodeath and deathcore.

I think Spotify called it "indie electro hacker Thursday".

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

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.)

I listen to live sets from a bunch of different genres usually. The recommendations on my music-only YouTube account at work are incredible.

Dijon - Absolutely has been a frequent play lately

I cycle through genres every month or so. For a while it had been ska, now I'm in a funk mood. March is all Irish music, then maybe some death metal before I switch to deep classic rock cuts and live shows.

Shuffle my entire library of course.

Satie after Lorna Shore? Of course kind sir

The sound of silence. Not the song, but the actual sound.

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.

Recently started listening to Classical on Apple Music. If not, just Pink Floyd

Maybe try some post-rock. It's usually just instrumental and often crosses almost to ambient. Bands like God is an astronaut, Mogwai, Hammock, Sigur Ros, Mono, Red Sparowes, etc.

The soothing music of Robert Evans's nasally voice saying the word Raytheon

Software Engineer here. I listen to a lot of Explosions In The Sky to work.

While doing work or studying i likt to listen to liquid drum and bass or coffe table jazz (name of the spotify playlist, it‘s just very chill jazz) :)

I like listening to lofi.

Mostly (though not exclusively) Alt-country/Americana, because that's what I always listen to. As long as I've already heard it a few times, I don't typically find lyrics distracting. I'm a Contracting SME for a software company, because it's better hours and fewer crazies than being lawyer.

Seems I'm an outlier in this gang, LOL.

When I’m not on the phone or with a client, I typically listen to jazz. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, etc. Something about it just helps me focus.

I’ll also occasionally listen to movie and game soundtracks to mix things up. It’s very rare that I ever listen to anything with lyrics while working.

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.

Usually Trance or Drum n Bass. Rhythmic with few lyrics.

Depends how much I need to concentrate. Heavy concentration requires music without lyrics so that is classical with some concentration in classical guitar for me.

If I just want some music, then heavy metal and/or rock of most flavors. Sometimes that will be www.hardradio.com .

I have a percentage of my CDs ripped and on my PC so often I'll just randomize everything in VLC. I do still spin my discs sometimes too in the 2 portable CDs players I have near my desk.

In summary: It's complicated.

ETA: I recently discovered these videos with no lyrics heavy metal. Held my interest for a little while. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hours+of+no+lyrics+metal+music&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl4fnaKBmt9k

A little bit of everything:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4l4YsYNV4wjqtQ8F4sz0ul

Some instrumentals, some video game music, some electronica. The general theme is that i can properly listen to it without diverting too much of my focus, as opposed to the progmetal I normally listen to.

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.

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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.

Im a mail carrier and I rock audiobooks all day.

"Elevated Jam Tracks" from youtube, can't have distracting vocals.

I used to work at Lowe’s, so it was either football announcers or their Worst Pop of 2002 mix tape. One time the music went out, and I was meeting with customers, I played some jazz from my phone and that was nice. Got fired that afternoon, but not for the jazz I don’t think. Timing was a little suspect though.

Soma FM is my go-to when I just want something in the background.

Lyrics distract me, so I usually go with string quartet or lo-fi versions of rock songs.

Spotify has quite a few good playlists for exactly that.

Chill stuff at work
Podcast during commute
(primarily) EDM at home

Mostly Opeth and Meshuggah discographies lately.

You should listen to Brian Eno's Music for Airports if you haven't already. It's beautiful calm for when you're in a chaotic environment.

I like to cycle through game OSTs when I need to concentrate.

Final Fantasy (X and X-2 especially)

Nier and Nier Automata

Guardians Crusade

Spyro

When I'm less focused I tend to listen to my usual artists like Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Smashing Pumpkins and The Republic Of Wolves.

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.

I’ve been going through a long Final Fantasy piano YouTube track for a month so far as background music when I’m thinking. Otherwise it’s whatever the group wants. Today it was Pickers Americana Banjo playlist. Sometimes it’s Marley or his son.

I prefer old-school trance, mostly, but anything high-energy and instrumental works. I've been known to use the Mario Kart soundtrack now and then. The important part is that either there are no lyrics, or the lyrics are in a language I've never attempted to learn.

'old on, Gov. Some of us are quite simple creatures what can't walk and chew gum at the same time. I can't listen to any music if I'm working, writing, or doing anything that requires concentration. Music is such a whole encompassing experience, I have to give my full attention to it and it totally detracts me from whatever else I'm doing.

Mostly just 2 hours instrumental playlists off YouTube from places like Epic Music Empire or PandoraJourney. Usually like movie trailer music. It's good for when you need hard heavy background noise to keep you focused but without lyrics so I don't get distracted.

• Johann Johansson
• Tangerine Dream
• Gregorian chant
• medieval religious music in Latin
• surf rock

with all the meetings and such I don't bother.

Okay this is a cheat code I will share with you. When coding I listen to 3blue1brown music.. If you have been watching that guy you will notice feeling like a fucking genius solving problems all the time :)

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Nothing. I have this weird thing where I can't listen to music and do my work at the same time. Listening to music is an active experience for me, I have to focus my whole attention on it and enjoy it. Putting music on as background noise doesn't work, it gets super irritating because I can't focus on my work or on the music.

The other issue is that the instant I put my headphones on at work to listen to music, someone comes to my desk to talk to me, without exception. And I hate talking to people, so I avoid wearing headphones at work these days.

Whatever's been stuck in my head if I've got very little to do and the lyrics won't distract me. Piano and softer instrumentals when I want music but am also working on something. Podcasts when doing mindless data shuffling or cleaning. Rainy Mood when studying.

And Megalovania if I need to work on a time sensitive priority 1 fix/task.