music while you work?

[Luke Hatley]

You still have 8-tracks!?! Even a working machine that will still play them??? Okay, now I have no doubt you can help preserve the 18th century. LOL

Kate

yes Kate livin and Lovin in the Past........ all the 8 - track tapes in the photo work

and there are 3, 8- track players there also.

Now for all said i do Have D V D's & CD's thanks Luke

[Duke]

good topic!

and I am also amazed that the 8 track player still works.

what i listen to usually depends on my mood. some nights,after too many customers at work, I like to sit in silence and hear myself think and pound.other nights, I plug into the ipod and jam away. either that or the local radio station has john tesh the former host from entertainment tonight! as a host and he does a really good broadcast.

country, rock, R&B, metal, soft rock, jazz.....80's rock, they are all on my playlist.

[PeterD]

On those infrequent times when I listen to music, I put on Celtic, medieval or SCA Philque. Usually I put on a movie that I have seen about 8,000 times. It becomes white noise until a good scene comes on which allows me to take a mini break from whatever I am doing.

[leatheroo]

I used to stick to my favorite artists from the 80's but in the last few years i find to my amazement that i really enjoy alot of the new music that my teenage son listens to. I love rap (weird!!!) and heavy metal. I like Eminem, but not all of his songs. 8 mile is one of my favorite movies.

Alot of the time the TV is on and i find myself tapping away to SpongeBob Square Pants!!

[Don101]

I like to listen to Don Edwards, Marty Robbins, Franky Lane and the MAN in black Mr J Cash, Don

[gunfighter48]

I like the big bands of the late 30s and the 40s thru the 50s, most of the popular music of the 50s. I like most of the music of the 60 and 70s except acid rock (never did like it), also like western music from the 50s and more modern country western music. There are several radio stations in the Seattle area that play oldies and big band music, usually have one playing while I work.

John

[Washroad]

I must be about the same age as Jordan! Not only do I listen to the music he mentioned, I saw several of them live (many of them are gone now, like Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis, gawd I loved her and she just burnt up the stage at UC Irvine in '69!).

Gotta throw in the southern rockers....Allman Brothers (ever listen to the live version of Statsboro Blues???), Lynard Skynard, Molly Hatchet.

I also like a lot of electric blues, from the masters like Albert King, Muddy Waters and BB King to newer musicians like Walter Trout, Joe Bonamassa, Stevie Ray, Johnny Lang.....people that can really play.

Since where I work is so noisy, a lot of the time I just want quiet.

[LarryB]

Normally Abba, then sometimes need the real Pick me up music so go for the channel that plays dance...then times I go for the easy stuff to calm me down. .....and coffee I use the internet for my music that way I don't have to worry about stop working and less talk.

[Spencer G]

I rarely listen to music while I'm making somthing, but I almost always have an audio-book going. My family has a subscription to Audible.com so we get a couple new books each month. Unfortunately, I usually end up finishing both of the new ones before we get more and I have to do some repeat.

[faceOdd]

I use my CD player instead of the ipod and whatever CD it happens to be, I replay it over and over and over and over again throughout the course of the entire project or batch of projects I'm working on. I've found that if I change the music mid-project, it somehow changes my focus on the project too and it doesn't turn out as well. Probably, it's my mood that changes. I also use the CD player as my cue to take a break. When the CD stops, I go upstairs and eat something, get more coffee, pet the dog, whatever.

What the CD is depends on my mood, but it's always goth, industrial, folk or punk. (Which is now self-labeled 'indie' or 'alternative' to avoid the negative goth stereotype). It's important for me to listen to things that are completely predictable so I'm not actively listening, but I can't function without my music in the background. Electronic music is somehow symmetrical, and for some reason, this is necessary for me. I despise jazz for the same reasons I love synth pop. The tricky part is, at my new studio space that's open to the public, I have to be more aware of what I listen to. Goth/Industrial seems to always contain one phrase that's clearly spoken and completely inappropriate, outside the genre. Since the goth/industrial scene is so small, I've met the majority of the musicians or have at least seen them perform live. It makes me feel all the more connected to their work, and more focused on mine.

Audra, Fear of Dolls, Misfits, Peter Murphy, Switchblade Symphony, VNV Nation, Cruxshadows, Belle Morte, The Brides, Front 242, Sisters of Mercy, Jason Webley, Faith & Disease, Death in June, The Strand, The Azoic, The Hellblinki Sextet, Two Ton Boa, Faith & the Muse, And One, Combichrist, Goteki, Wolfsheim, Clan of Xymox, Wumpscut, Dead Can Dance...

Sorry! I love my music : )

You may find it interesting to know that I'm also a huge fan of Willie Nelson, George Jones, Hank Williams Sr. and Chris LeDoux.

And Metallica : )

~Tammy