Personally work in IT, mostly fixing server and infrastructure. Big fan of listening to ambiance music while working: the kind of music and sounds that make you forget that you’re listening to it, to me, that’s the perfect kind of working music. Otherwise I will listen to game and movie soundtracks from Lotr, Star Wars, Ghilbi, Harry Potter etc… I used to be all into lofi, but need a break from it now.
Anyways, please share your favorite music to listen to while working, and let us know what you work as too! More fun to see how the profession match with music taste.
Have a nice rest of your day 🌻
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.
Hell yeah! Spyro is such a classic too - ahh the good old days eh
The sound of silence. Not the song, but the actual sound.
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Unrelated, but…
Australia, you were this close to winning Eurovision. (Context: their entry into the 2016 contest was called “Sound of Silence”)
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.
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.
Usually Trance or Drum n Bass. Rhythmic with few lyrics.
Im a mail carrier and I rock audiobooks all day.
“Elevated Jam Tracks” from youtube, can’t have distracting vocals.
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.
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.
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.
Dance tracks from the 80’s-00’s help me get through the day with a smile on my face and a bounce in my step.
France Inter Paris Fip
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.
Haha that would have been crazy indeed, me on the either hand would have hired a person if they mentioned they liked jazz 😅
What if they said they liked jazz, then you hired them, then they revealed their understanding of “jazz” was messed up.
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.
