What music do you code to?

[PaulG.]

Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror was hilarious today. Virtually all of my childhood trauma came from listening to music like this. Got a problem employee? A coworker you want to rattle? Click the link and crank up the Klipsch. :laugh:

[crelf]

QUOTE (PaulG. @ Aug 11 2008, 07:47 PM)

Got a problem employee? A coworker you want to rattle? Click the http://www.mixwit.com/widgets/e65bc88e4706d1652b3c845336fc4acc' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">link and crank up the Klipsch. :laugh:

That's just plain wrong!

Later that night...

Ah crap! Now I've got "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" in my head!

[Aristos Queue]

The single best CD to code to, in my opinion: A Kind of Magic by Queen.

[crelf]

When I'm in a deeply creative mood, I can't go past the 1985 Dire Straits classic Brothers in Arms.

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 11 2008, 08:52 PM)

When I'm in a deeply creative mood, I can't go past the 1985 Dire Straits classic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_in_Arms_%28album%29' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">Brothers in Arms.

Very good choice. This used to me driving music on my way from college back home.

For coding I either go with the iTunes Party mix (ranging from Frank Sinatra to Journey, with some Pearl Jam and Jerry Jeff Walker thrown in), but when it gets really tough and I need to tune out the surrounding cube land, I put on the noise cancelling head phones and embarassingly enough pick the Sound of Music sound track. For some reason it works for me. Don't question results. (I guess now I will find out how many of my coworker actually read LAVA.)

[PJM_labview]

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Aug 11 2008, 06:20 PM)

The single best CD to code to, in my opinion: http://www.amazon.com/Kind-Magic-Queen/dp/B000000OAX/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1218503930&sr=1-2' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">A Kind of Magic by Queen.

Whoa, I am shocked that I am finding myself in agreement with you on that one!

PJM

[Antoine Chalons]

I just can't code with a music with lyrics. Only jazz and classical.

When doing neat code I listen to Night on bald mountain from Mussorgsky.

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

"The sound of silence" by ear-plugs and sound deadening head phones. (It worked for Tomi).

Ben

[Kevin Payne]

Here's something for the coding physicists- Large Hadron Rap

[JiMM]

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 11 2008, 09:05 PM)

That's just plain wrong!

Later that night...

Ah crap! Now I've got "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" in my head!

:headbang: Dangit Chris, I listened to a bit of each song on that mix last night with no ill effects. Now you put that dang song in my head when I'm at work!

[Tom Bress]

I sometimes listen to an internet radio station called Radio Dismuke that plays vintage jazz and popular music from the 1920's and 1930's. It is surprisingly good music to code to. It's light, upbeat, bouncy, smooth and entertaining. And since it is a radio station it doesn't get repetitive or stale.

[pallen]

Occasionally I like to listen to music when I'm working on code.

For online streaming CBC 3 has always been a favorite. I also like the R3-30 Podcast from the same place.

When I'm feeling bluesy, I like Blue Ears

But when I'm working on something tricky, or trying something for the first time (which is quite often) I tend to prefer absolute silence. (Or the horrified screams of my victims)

[crelf]

QUOTE (JiMM @ Aug 12 2008, 08:30 AM)

Dangit Chris, I listened to a bit of each song on that mix last night with no ill effects. Now you put that dang song in my head when I'm at work!

My work here is done

[jpdrolet]

and progrock.com

[JDave]

QUOTE (Antoine Châlons @ Aug 11 2008, 11:22 PM)

I just can't code with a music with lyrics. Only jazz and classical.

When doing neat code I listen to Night on bald mountain from Mussorgsky.

I agree -- if I know the lyrics it tends to distract me.

I like classical or else a totally eclectic mix of songs from my music library ranging all over but successfully skirting around a few genres like Country, Rap, and R&B. Most anything else is fair game... I even noticed that "C is for Cookie" somehow slipped into that mix.

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[jpdrolet]

"Air on the G String" seems very appropriate too...

[Yair]

I usually randomly select songs from the music I have on my hard drive. The others usually like them and I usually mix them unless they go together.

Here are some example of songs we heard in the last couple of days. I selected these specifically because they're related to what people already posted:

• Queen (don't remember which song off hand).
  
• Tie a yellow ribbon (YEAH!).
  
• Dream Theater - Wait for sleep.
  
• All of the four seasons.
  
• Pachelbel's Canon in D.
  
• Dire Straits (not from Brothers, but Lions and Down to the waterline).
  
• Simon and Garfunkel - The sound of silence.
  

That of course was just a small selection, since during the course of the day you can here dozens of songs.

[Anders Björk]

Well Kenny G maybe an option or Warren G with especially Regulate when coding some control algorithm..

[Justin Goeres]

Alas, I normally code in silence. Occasionally I'll put on something without lyrics, and I went through a phase a few years ago when I liked to code to techno/electronica.

The problem is that the same part of my brain that likes music seems to also be involved in coding, and I get really distracted by the music. Then I have to pick up one of my cats and dance around the room with it, and that's more than you wanted to hear anyway, so I'll stop.

[crelf]

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Aug 12 2008, 07:37 PM)

Then I have to pick up one of my cats and dance around the room with it...

I love cats...

...with gravy.

[JiMM]

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 12 2008, 07:48 PM)

I love cats...

...with gravy.

and a biscuit :thumbup:

[crelf]

QUOTE (JiMM @ Aug 12 2008, 08:27 PM)

and a biscuit :thumbup:

[Val Brown]

It's usually blues and/or jazz.

SRV (having just been to NI Week in Austin his music is very present on my mind).

Delbert McClinton

Butterfield Blues Band

Koko Taylor

Bonnie Raitt

Robert Cray...

and/or

David Sanborn

Coltrain

Ocar Peterson

Miles Davis

Early George Benson

Bob James

and for the "Benefit" of some of you old R&R types, the third Jethro Tull album, Cream, Traffic, Doors, King Crimson...

just to name a few.

[Pollux]

While coding I only listen to the music played by the scientific instruments and computers' fans around me in the lab.

[Phillip Brooks]

Paul, based on your avatar and numerous feline references, I just assumed you listen exclusively to "Cat" Stevens

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