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Hello,

I don't know if this counts as a rambling or not, but I've been wondering, what music if at all, do you listen to while programming?

I mostly listen to metal(core) and punk (Periphery, Bullet for My Valentine, Becoming the Archetype, As I Lay Dying, and the Offspring are a few of my favorites), but occasionally I go for electronic/industrial/trance/whatever, like VNV Nation, The Crystal Method, and the Chemical Brothers.

I don't listen to music, at all, not ever.

My coding sessions often include soundtracks or (modernized) classical music. My total music collection extend beyond that usually.

Jazz, funk, soul, R &B, Rock (Classic, Alternative), Dubstep occasionally, movie and musical soundtracks, classical, etc. I would say British Invasion stuff is my favorite music. My favorite bands include Pink Floyd, The Who, The Kinks, CCR, Zeppelin....Can't really name them all.

-JL

I listen to various types of rock (but not metal), a little pop, and classical music.

I listen to pretty much only Justin Bieber and sometimes Britney Spears. I used to be a big Hanson fan but they cut their hair to short so now I don't like them anymore.

berkus wrote:

Jezze wrote:I listen to pretty much only Justin Bieber and sometimes Britney Spears. I used to be a big Hanson fan but they cut their hair to short so now I don't like them anymore.

Winner.

A sample of some bands I listen to, sorted by genre:

Dance punk (Death From Above 1979, Late of the Pier)
Indie rock (Foals, Franz Ferdinand)
Electro house (Justice, Daft Punk)
Psychedelic rock (Tame Impala, Connan Mockasin)

I tend to listen to soundtracks / instrumentals. My current set is mostly Zelda Re-orchestrated and the Doctor Who soundtrack

Most times i listen to Rummelsnuff, Lacrimosa, Boppin B, Bob Marley and DIe Kassierer.

R&B, Classical, Alternative, very small amount of metal, Trance, Religious/Praise stuff sometimes, very small amount of Hip Hop, and a lot of Reggae. Frankly thought apart from those "main" genre I listen to almost anything once it sounds good

Green day, of course- the all time favorite. I like their punk style. Personally, I hate heavy metal than anything else. But that's just me- not meaning to criticize or something. I can spend several hours watching the classic Green day concert's videos, over and over again. It never feeds me up.

I'm with Mr_Piranha on the so-called British Invasion stuff. Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones are all some of my most favorite bands. But you can't mention those bands without also mentioning Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek & the Dominoes. Yes, I'm quite the Clapton fan as well.

I also like good ol' Southern Rock -- bands like ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Shinedown. (Yes, they're southern rock just as much as anything else.)

Lately I've either been listening to good ol' Blues or either '90s rock bands. Although I'll listen to pretty much anything that sounds good to me. I like older music the most, I guess. There's more midrange and a hell of a lot less compression and volume distortion. People that do sound mixing these days mostly suck. Quiet parts of songs are meant to be quiet, for ${DEITY}'s sake.

quok wrote:Lately I've either been listening to good ol' Blues or either '90s rock bands. Although I'll listen to pretty much anything that sounds good to me. I like older music the most, I guess. There's more midrange and a hell of a lot less compression and volume distortion. People that do sound mixing these days mostly suck. Quiet parts of songs are meant to be quiet, for ${DEITY}'s sake.

It seems to depend a lot upon the mixing engineer. Good engineers will master things so that the loud portions of the record average at ~3dB FS, giving sufficient headroom for the bass hits (which should take things to just below 0dB FS (the limit)) without clipping, and with only exceptionally loud waveforms clipped, maximizing use of the available bandwidth. While the occasional clipping is undesirable, it maximizes the quality of the remainder of the record.

Bad mastering engineers will compress the audio to hell, so that it sounds louder (indeed, it is somewhat louder) but everything is clipped. You can generally tell this because after about 15 minutes of listening to the record you'll be growing tired of it for reasons you can't immediately discern.

Personally, I listen to everything from soundtracks to symphonic metal to dubstep to drum and base. I guess the unifying theme is an is an "enveloping soundscape".

Groups like Inti Illimani, K'Jarkas and Rumillajta, though I tend not to listen to music when programming unless I need to drown out a distracting noise such as a dog barking.

[Edit: K'Jarkas is also known as Los Kjarkas.]