I'm going on a 72 hour coding binge tomorrow, and I'm just preparing some music for the kickass journey. Can you guys share some of your favorite work songs with me?
To be fair, I'll share this remix with you. I personally think it's kickass, and I'll give you my first born child if you think this song sucks =p [Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart Remix ] (http://fasho.me/music/49)
I owe my master's degree to Pink Floyd.
My favorite work music is anything that I've heard enough that my brain is resonating with it instead of listening for details. My musical staples tend to be Dead Can Dance, the later albums by Savatage, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Tom Petty, just about everything techno, and lots of Bob Marley. Here lately I've been spinning parts of Trent Reznor's "The Social Network" soundtrack a bit more than anything else.
I can listen and work to just about anything, so sometimes I just let my entire collection go on random.
Same for me. I have a Grooveshark "work" playlist that I've been adding songs to for the last 2 years or so. Here it is: http://grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Work/57992001
I find music that has no lyrics and has a slower tempo to be the least distracting when working. This includes genres such as post-rock, trip-hop, launge, ambiental.
Just listen to some prog epics. Genesis, King Crimson, Rush... you'll get through three, maybe four songs in that timespan.