IRL, I once listed my favorite bands across metal, rock, hip-hop, electronic, and drum n bass and was hit with “that’s standard programmer music”.
As someone with little physical human contact outside of work and actually meeting devs outside to find out they listen to the same music was a little surprising. That was a tiny sample though and this is the web though and people are from all over, what kind of stuff do you listen to? Favorite genres, artists, or just “everything” even noise?
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Mostly:
Halftime and future bass, stuff like ivy labs and mad Zach, and two fingers
90s alternative like pixies, nirvana, aic.
30s and 40s jazz and blues
Why manually enumerate when I can show you all the data ;)
Clicked when you were listening to pink pony club, awesome song
Hah that was in my listenbrainz recommendations
That looks really interesting, thanks for sharing
Most of the music I listen to fits under the alternative umbrella. While I never actually spent a lot of time directly on /mu/ that type of online music culture circa ten years ago has been very influential on my music taste. A couple of years ago I also had a big emo phase, in particular 90’s emo and 10’s emo revival. I also listen to a lot of punk and post hardcore.
Progressive metal & related genres (currently listening to the newest Eidola album on repeat, and some Dance Gavin Dance), and bebop jazz.
But I don’t program; I’m mostly cleaning up artwork for commercial printing.
I code in silence.
But when I listen to music I REEEEAALLYYYYY L I S T E N. Stuff like Tool, Coin Locker Kid, Kaoru Abe - and I find it impossible to concentrate on code while those play, they mentally drag me in.
Same. I can’t even have understandable lyrics if I’m going to concentrate.
My work playlists are completely different. More cinematic scores, world music, ambient whatever. There is some metal that bridges the gap, but it has to be very death.
I’ve started listening to stuff like Babymetal because it’s in Japanese and my brain doesn’t get distracted by words in a foreign language.
I’m a fan of japanese indie like Gesu No Kiwami Otome.
I have some Japanese metal bands in the rotation for just this reason. Metal works in a lot of languages, actually.
Mostly golden age hip hop, metal and its various subgenres (heavy metal, doom metal, death metal etc), classic rock, indie, post-hardcore, and pop-punk
Mostly Bach and MASTER BOOT RECORD.
MBR is on my coding playlist for sure
Techno, dubstep, various game OST’s, some metal, orchestral, and various pop songs my partner turned me on to. Quite a few touhou remixes too.
Stuff like Tycho - Dive for when I really need to focus.
Polyphia typically
Mainly black and old school death metal. Also some ambient and contemporary classical.
Yes. Plus Bohren und der Club of Gore, which is Slowest Black Jazz
Absolutely! Black Earth gets semi-regular rotation around these parts too.
I need something without understandable lyrics (unless I’ve listened to that song many times before) and something that pumps me up, but doesn’t cause headaches. So, 8-bit music and cheesy / ‘epic’ cinematic scores work well.
Well, unless it’s 4 o’clock in the morning. Then nothing beats classical music. I’m never as productive as I am at 4 AM, listening to Beethoven and friends.
When I’m trying to focus I tend to listen to System of a Down or Rammstein. The rest of the time it tends to be pop music from the radio (usually BBC Radio 1) or lofi.
I’m an open format DJ, so I listen to everything except Hick Hop, and that annoying sub-genre of electronic music that consists of little more than someone repeating the same word or phrase over a simple drum beat. Have no idea what it’s called, but kids under 30 seem to love it and I just don’t understand why.
When programming I tend to like music that is instrumental, like synthwave and chiptunes, as well as some light on vocals trip hop and industrial. I can listen to rock and metal too, but it tends to grab my attention more than I like when I am trying to get in the zone.
Yeah, same. Post-metal or thereabouts towards jazz can work too IME. Stuff like Russian Circles, Earthless, Elephant9. But stuff like Waveshaper and Amynedd are often safer bets.
