Allow me to explain by citing my 2007 YouTube review of a particular single.
Fixed; the quote applies to me and countless others for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
The best coding music?
On Land, the seminal Ambient Music album by Brian Eno, circa 1973.
There…now that I’ve told you, I have to code, I mean kill, you.
Get to work, you lazy sods.
Hey nobody mentioned AC/DC and Deep Purple.
These two together with
Bryan Adams, Placebo, Pink Floyd, CCR, Eagles, David Bowie, Van Halen, Nick Cave
make up my main dish. All this spiced with some classic music such as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Vivaldi.
Was all this really necessary?
We used to listen to Kompressor while working … it’s a heavy german-accent industrial sound krush-fear combo … not everyone liked it, mind you.
Yes, and it also started as a joke and after a while i really began to like this music - i listened to it A LOT!
Video:
a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQis9xkYkg0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQis9xkYkg0/a
Music Download:
a href=http://www.dizzler.com/music/Kompressor/K_Mighty_Remixhttp://www.dizzler.com/music/Kompressor/K_Mighty_Remix/a
Working links (hopefully):
late I know, but when I worked in a Warehouse we called it the Radio 1 effect.
I used to torture my ex-teammates with all the discography of Insane Clown Posse for about 6 months. I used to play it in the exact same order until the point everybody knew which song followed each one. They always show me how much they hated it, they even used to throw anything they could put their hands on (CD cases, pens, balls of paper, even an old keyboard). As the time went by it became like a ritual we followed religiously. After the 6 months passed I was reassigned to manage a different project and I was relocated two stories away from there.
About 3 months latter I went to visit my former team. For my surprise they were still playing the exact same play list I used to play with the difference that this time they played in ever single computer and you could see a giant poster of Violent J (lead singer) sticked on to the central window. It was like a cult… very creepy. They now used to throw things to each other randomly.
Tapes are obsolete already, hehe
It’s kinda helpful. not bad at all.
I think richard cheese is excellent to code by. his lounge classics are rockin
Two words: EAR PLUGS!!!
I find music a distraction for me when coding. Why? Because I start listening to the music instead of focusing on the code. But if I were to code to music it would be to my own.
god you’re a nerd - not a badge of pride but rather a clueless turd. why bother letting people know any of this? nobody cares.
I know all of the songs you posted and queued each one in my head as I was reading the track listing. The saddest part is that I can sing any one of those on command.
For working I find the harshest, most violent music works wonders for my code. Frequent fliers on my work playlist include Ministry, J.G. Thirwell, Front 242, Skinny Puppy and Death.
For those that would like to experience the full horror of this music…
http://www.mixwit.com/widgets/e65bc88e4706d1652b3c845336fc4acc
We tend to have dance/ambient music playing in the studio (or Radiohead - In Rainbows, an album I loved until the tech director decided to play it on repeat for 3 weeks!) so I tend to pop my earphones on and listen to my own stuff.
Normally it’s indie or punk rock, but it differs quite a bit. At the moment my guilty pleasure is Alphabeat, cheesy cheesy pop…but so happy and bouncy if find it good to work to.
I like music too much to use it as background music while programming. Either I’m listening to it, or I’m not. If I’m not listening to it, it might as well be off. If I AM listening to it, I’m not thinking.
I usually code to a mix of Enya and Clannad. I’ve got over seven hours of it in iTunes, so it doesn’t get repetitive and it’s nice for background music. I agree with the others who say that listening to something really helps me focus. I think it occupies the part of my brain that would normally wander and distract me from the task at hand.