What is on Your Mind?

What music do you listen if any to when...

1. You're working
2. Driving
3. Listen to music (for the sake of listening to music)
4. Any other time you can think of the you listen to music regularly.

does it differ and why?

Pesonally, I do notice that my listening habits do follow different trends, depending on when and where I am listening.

When I'm working, and trying to drown out background noise I listen to something I know really well, but at the same time relaxing since I find that it is not distracting, although while working I usuallly don't listen to anything I get interrupted too often and taking the headphose off every time someone arrives with a question ot the phonerings gets tiring very quickly.

When driving I usually listen to something a bit louder, that being in part to the fact that in a former lifetime I did a lot of log distance driving at night and found that that more stimulating music was better for helping with alertness. Since then the habit seems to have stuck.

When listening to music for the sake of music, my choices vary wildly in styles, and seems to follow no particular pattern.

The one observation I make as I look at my music collection is that i does not include, nor do I listen to 'teckno' style music.

1. Working - generally the radio and its usually classic rock or rock.
2. Driving - I am currently on an assignment that keeps me traveling weekly (4 hour trip one way) so I am generally listening to audio books. Da Vinci Code, The Street Lawyer, and The Breathren recently
3. Generally listen to classic rock, rock, blues, and other music like Ray Charles last CD
4. Any kind of music is good music

Earlier thread: So... What are you listening to?

I listen to what I listen to. Any other activity I may be doing has little influence over my choice. The only real exception, if I'm sleepy and need to stay awake, hard rock is the way to go...and cranked up. I will listen to tunes while I work at, say, scrubbing the kitchen floor. I don't listen to anything while I'm coding. Even attempting to engage me in conversation will fail unless you persist enough to break my concentration. I must first stop coding...then I will hear you. Ditto anything requiring concentration.

Mostly I listen to British folk and folk rock. But I like lots of stuff. I don't take this as far as google... I do find some sub-genres to dislike. Google, listen to opera for an hour, then disco for an hour. Then tell me "Any kind of music is good music". I double dare you!

But techno is a very broad genre to dislike in total. I really like very hard trance (mostly German). Speedcore is starting to grow on me, but I'm still evaluating this. Or the other hand, I can pass on jungle and here my evaluation is complete. I loved synthesizers when I first heard Wendy (nee Walter) Carlos' Switched on Bach. Since then I have sought out anything involving synthesizers and that includes techno.

By the way, mix world music (a superset of british folk) and techno and you kinda get Dead Can Dance. I love them, but they're not for everyone.

Music !! What would life be without it ?

While working..

In the mornings I start off with OST's (to the tunes of zimmerman, badelt, trevor rabin) and symphonic/orchestral rock themes.

Gradually as the day proceeds, I move into a mix of old rock. Pink Floyd, Doors, Scorpions,GNR et al..

And as evenings approach, more of alternative rock..

Driving.. should be trance/DJ mixes et al.. basically fast paced..

Any other time, I listen to what my iPod sings out.

Vino

LMAO

Agreed, more accurately I would say I do not like enough of any one sub-genre or artist to justify it's inclusion in my collection. There are always individual tunes which trancend this boundary.

ok, you got me. I generally stay pretty far away from Opera, but occasionally do get a kick out of and a laugh from some old disco! I generally listen to folk rock as well (bob dylan, old neil young) and I even get into some punk and speed metal. I listen to a wide range.

Wow! Coolest spelling since this post.

I always get them with that. Some people like opera. And some people like disco. But one person who likes both? Not on this planet. (But I have gangster rap and bublegum in reserve just in case... )