Uh, gregorian/rennaissance/etc. chant? Classical too, though don't really know who's playing usually. I like Chopin alot. The best is music that sounds like thinking.
I also second silence. That's the usual case.
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#4280s porn music.
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#43Lately I've been listening Jack Johnson, but I like any kind of music. I also love to dance Salsa :P
+1 for Salsa. It's also a great way to meet women while doing something fun. And it is a learned skill, something you can become good at if you practice, and it makes you seem a bit less nerdy, I think. My wife agrees.
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#44I like ambient electronic music for coding. Check out:
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#45I love eclectic bands with a ska/horns bent, like Fishbone, The Cherry Poppin' Daddies (from my hometown, Eugene, Oregon), Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, plus other stuff like the Voodoo Glow Skulls.
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#46While programming, I prefer either baroque classical music or weird glitchy sounding electronic music. When I'm not programming, anything goes.
I can't listen to Baroque music while coding. The same brain cells that I'm trying to use for coding get tied up with unweaving the strands of melody.
Yeah I tried baroque but it made my mind wander too. Distractions must die.
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#47Most often I listen to indie music. My favorites are Rilo Kiley, The Decemberists, Metric, The Arcade Fire, Feist and Stars. It doesn't look like I have any peers here. But, I do enjoy some Pop (like Ben Folds and Dispatch), Baroque, Ska and Big Band as well. edit: I also love Gunther and Swizz Beatz. I don't know why. That said, of course, I prefer soothing tapes of Paul Graham's voice.
I'm exclusively indie rock. You're a bit softer in taste than I, but there's some overlap. The Arcade Fire is one of the best bands playing right now. Their live show is astoundingly good...best I've seen in years.
My faves are: Spoon, Midlake, Fugazi, Death from Above 1979, Voxtrot, Mission of Burma, Cat Power, The Lemonheads.
When I'm working I'm most productive with things that have no lyrics or illegible lyrics, but are familiar. Jesu, The Fucking Champs, and electronica like Booka Shade and Apparat. Embarrassingly, perhaps, I'm totally loving working to old school metal lately--some from before my time, actually, but I like it anyway--Judas Priest, in particular. Also stuff I liked in high school and college: Carcass, Godflesh, Neurosis.
I made a list of my favorite tracks at emusic a while back (need to update it with Arcade Fire and a few other recent faves):
http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=564452&p=1
You can't beat emusic if you like indie music. It's cheap, non-DRM, and they've got nearly all of the best bands and labels.
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#48Anything Trip-hop (Massive Attack, Morcheeba, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Bjork, AIR, EBTG, Zero 7, Tricky, etc.)
Music with VOCALS?
You guys have some weak taste in programming music. Only the hardest electronic for me. Stuff that makes you feel like adrenaline is being injected into your brain with a firehose, yet predictable and non-distracting. Who else listens to that?
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#49Telefon Tel Aviv! or any kind of good intelligent dance music.... (check lastfm...)
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#50gotta love guitar hero music :).
http://anywhere.fm/derek/guitar_hero http://anywhere.fm/derek/freezepop!