What’s your go-to music while you work?
Do you use a streaming service?
Share what you listen to while you work.
I use SiriusXM and Spotify mostly.
SiriusXM for casual listening, Spotify for specific listening + getting all the new albums on fridays.
Right now I’m on Spotify, listening to the Guardian of the galaxy soundtrack.
Pandora, set to Shuffle.
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iHeartRadio. Usually set to contemporary Christian music stations.
I usually start off listening to something that was recommended on this thread’s precursor on the old Solidworks forum (Last gasp today!) then letting the YouTube autoplay take me where it will.
I’ll be looking to do the same with this thread now.
Thanks for restarting the thread here RickB
Heavy metal 
for repetitive work where my brain is on autopilot, the faster the song, the faster the work. Instrumentals like classical or some kind mellow dark ambience for more serious work where me brain is involved.
I usually jump back and forth between two of my favorite stations on Pandora -
Guardians of the Galaxy Radio
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Radio
Occasionally listen to old episodes of the Nerdist podcast (listening to the one with Bob Saget right now.)
With that said, I actually bought some more CDs this week! (remember those?)
Operation Ivy - Self Titled (Getting hard to find their CDs)
Rancid - “Out Come the Wolves” (a “must own”)
The Interrupters - picked up two of theirs
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Recently discovered how huge the Zappa library is at Apple Music, So yeah.
But today seems to be mainly Jeff Beck.
Typically, I listen to terrestrial radio streamed online, either rock or news. I listen to YouTube often and intermittently.
I’m gonna carry on a small habit of sharing notable albums here. I really try to avoid sharing NSFW like explicit lyrics or controversial content, but then I may not have listened to the whole thing - interruptions can happen. I prefer albums for less fuss at work, but may share a song if it’s worthwhile. I really like weird stuff, and also a wide variety of the less weird.
Prince Jazz Funk Sessions 1977 Instrumental is an old favorite that I return to.
Last week, I discovered MEUTE, a marching band covering popular techno music. That’s darn cool to me.
Today I found Shaolin Afronauts, an Afrobeat band self-described as “interstellar futurist afro-soul”. Upbeat and jazzy.
Luv that this is here!.. Thanks Rick!
…got my first moderna shot today… so…
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Picked up some trivia regarding my CD selection . . .
After one full length album, some of the members of Operation Ivy formed Rancid.
The Producer of “Out Come the Wolves” also produced “Fight the Good Fight” for The Interrupters.
(the members of Rancid co-wrote and played on one of the songs on that album.)
Some of this I knew, some of this I just found out about, but I thought the links between the bands was interesting.
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That may be the best cover of “House of the Rising Sun” I’ve ever heard. Certainly the best Blues version! Love it! ><
very rare, but when needed to do “the impossible” and work harder, enter into trance :
(don’t drive in real life with that song, too dangerous)
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(the car is named “Kamata Angelus” )
Aside from the incessant whining from a couple of co-workers, I will usually be listening to anything easy (jazz standards, Coltrane, the Duke, Sinatra, Davis, Eagles, Diamond, Joel, the Beatles, ELO…), and then there are others times when I feel like it is time to take the lead out and listen to some classic Rock (Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Stones, AC/DC… and of course the ‘Ayatollah of rocknrolla’, LZ).
Whole lotta The Meters. It’s odd that Cissy Strut isn’t in this playlist.
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