Punk/Hardcore (bands like Bane, Paint it Black, Modern Life is War, Good Clean Fun, Minor Threat, Gorilla Biscuits) mostly, with some Pink Floyd and Violent Femmes thrown in there for good measure.
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#52Most 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,…
Then you should try http://wazee.org/ as streaming radio.
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#53Anything 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?
Are you talking about Vitalic, by any chance?
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#54Kraftwerk, DMX Krew, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Autechre, IT & My Computer, anonymous minimal house, Daft Punk
Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Jose Gonzales, The Knife,
Timbaland
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#55* metal (heavy metal, progressive metal, death metal, some goth...), rock, jazz, some electronic music...
You can check my tastes: http://last.fm/user/egimenez :P
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#56Even thought I don't listen to rap that much, Method Man works for me. I find rap like that, where it's just a constant flow of lyrics and rhymes, really gets me going.
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#57Oddly enough - game and movie soundtracks. Mostly game though, because it's music designed to be ignored.
I knew a coder who listened to the Muppets Christmas Sing-Along on repeat for about 10 hours during a marathon coding session. At about hour 9 she started to feel like she had lost her mind.
Edit: I just listened to Zero 7 on pandora, and it's awesome. I think I've found a new favorite.
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#58Lately 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.
hehehe, It is a great rhythm, and not so hard to learn.
That kind of music is the best for dancing!
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#59Favorites are Mozart, Brahms, Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven but like dfranke 'omnivorous classical' is a pretty good description. But I will pretty much listen to anything. Some of my favorite performers are John Eliot Gardiner, Andre Previn, the Kronos Quartet, Cecelia Bartoli, Murray Perahia, Mitsuko Uchida, Emmanuel Ax, Alison Hagley, Bryn Terfel, and Yo Yo Ma. And I also often prefer quiet when hacking, and only li…
Eh, how could I forget Helen Grimaud:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_Grimaud
She has a great recording of what is probably my favorite piece: Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1
http://www.amazon.com/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-Grimaud-Brahms-Piano-...