Do you actually code to that or are you thinking about work like hammering nails? (I’d clean the house to it myself.)
damn it why do I gotta run out of likes when I get here?
I wasn’t sure if people would think it was a joke. While technically I haven’t listened to Burning Inside in a while, that’s the kind of music that lets me focus my mind on doing something. It’s like there is a whirling/screaming/perpetually bored part of my brain that is always in my way, and giving it something to angrily scream along to lets me think.
One of my faves (vid is so-so, I mean the song.)
In fact, experience the whole albumin:
Yes, I can code to this, like a mf’in whirling dervish.
A new fave, just discovered:
My work music often defaults to all time favorites.
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
Boards of Canada
The Geese and the Ghost
Mostly whatever the random number god chooses, but I want to point out two rather different “works while working” artists:
The Goldberg Variations by Bach, the repetition makes it easy for me to reach a focused trance completely concentrated on the job at hand (e.g. the Open Goldberg Variations).
Sarah Sophie, a singer-songwriter with neat melodies and (more often than not) typical girl-being meets/loves/hates boy-being lyrics - after some time it’s just a nice background noise, I don’t need to listen to the texts as they are so cliche-ridden : ) And her drummer is actually a beatboxer <3
In college, when I really had to focus and study, I would put on Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier – I think that I had a 6 disc set that I would just put in my CD changer for all-nighters (it tended to get me in the “zone”)
Now, I just use anything on the mellow side – no real preferences.
And the winner is
I’ll throw Aphex Twin in the mix, but that one in particularly is a little too ambient for me in large doses. I stop concentrating on working and start concentrating on napping. Ambient 1 is a little more energetic.
So, then. Burt Bacharach?
It’s good for working on digging holes to bury people random things in the back yard.
Download?
Just discovered this, and love it.
@japhroaig, @anon61221983, @slybevel chekkit.
& you gotta listen to the one that comes up right after it, too… really interesting klezmer-like, traditional and jazz fusion weirdness… that I like.
Aw great now I’ll have that jaunty little tune in my head all damn day.
Well, I have the video with the gourds in my head now… Oh man!!!
My favorite musical feelings listening to something and going, “what the hell is that?”
It sounds like a klezmer shakuhachi with gutteral undertones accompanied by a dulcimer, technics organ, and fiddle.
Ah,it is a kaval, which is in the same family as the shakuhachi, but played in Azerbaijan and some parts of moldovia. Where is bela bartock when you need him, eh?
They have a Nord Electro 4 in the background. They could absolutely, totes bust this out in a heartbeat.
I would be surprised if they don’t for encores.