Personally, if any, I like to listen to [SMILETRON](http://www.smiletron.org/#!music/cff9) – doesn’t take much of your focus; long monotonic and good to listen to, or [without.directive](http://without-directive.com/) – awesome compositions with a genre mixture I haven’t heard before. Hope this isn’t too off-topic :P


> *Originally posted by **[Senekis93](/forums/4/topics/313089?page=1#posts-6606750):*** > >  Yeah I’ve tried that. Doesn’t work well for me because I have to press next song all the time if I get songs I don’t want to hear atm or just terrible songs I’m too lazy to clean up. I should definitely make a playlist some day.

Put all good songs in a playlist, shuffle.

Aint nothing like a little wu-tang clan to get you pumped for some programming.

Einaudi, Mazzy Star, Lee Moses, Radiohead, GY!BE, Eno, Beatles, Foo Fighters & chilled trance.

Liquid drum ’n bass is what works best for me when working

Warren Zevon is a very nice person to listen to, as well as the soundtrack from Croc 1 and Croc 2. They aren’t fast-paced and won’t make you code like a code monkey demon, but you might optimize things more.

Frank Sinatra or punk mostly. Sometimes drum and bass.

Gotta check out all that :) Btw pretty neat free [album](http://kubbi.bandcamp.com/album/circuithead) released right now

I listen to Gorillaz and E-Dubble

I don’t like to have music in my ears while programming, somehow it breaks my concentration. [This,](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) on the other hand, helps it. Go figure.

I put on stuff like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3P2iaWma-Y&feature=g-high). Makes me feel like what I’m making is better than it actually is. ;)

Anything electro related. I usually either download my music and use foobar to play through it, pandora or youtube. I’ve been listening to a lot of [Vocal Trance by Eminence podcasts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npZMUiMC3gM) recently though. That’s not to say that sometimes I don’t like to listen to music, especially when I’m concentrating.

All about **video game music**! :D (snes and genesis era mostly, plus some notables from the few competent game music composers today, oldschool examples (i.e. almost the entire soundtracks are good) → Chrono Trigger, Tales of Phantasia, Terranigma, Final Fantasys 2/4, 5, and 3/6, 7, 8, 10, and 12, Treasure Hunter G, Live A Live, Shining Force 2, Breath of Fire 2, Radical Dreamers, Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana 2) Donkey Kong Country 2, Lufia 2, Bahamut Lagoon, just to name a few from the older era… in other words Yasunori Mitsuda, and Nobuo Uematsu) **‘mid’ to new era examples:** Electricity – SimCity 4 OST (HQ) – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-L8MIg5fI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5-L8MIg5fI) Epicenter – SimCity 4 OST (HQ) – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhsY0uBbgyo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhsY0uBbgyo) Umineko no Naku Koro ni – dreamenddischarger – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vYAXZs8pFU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vYAXZs8pFU) Nora to Toki no Koubou : Kiri no Mori no Majo – Everyday Lifestyle – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ung2q\_BVXWY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ung2q_BVXWY) Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun – Lone Trooper[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVrWXawQRI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wVrWXawQRI) Cladun: This is an RPG OST – Knight of a Foreign Country – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLpN1sp0hmw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLpN1sp0hmw) **some ABSOLUTE listens:** Chrono Cross OST – Chrono Cross ~ Scars of Time (Opening Theme) – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-h-n43xOqg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-h-n43xOqg) Eschatos – Point of No Return – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvMT4WjaOo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvMT4WjaOo) Final Fantasy X OST – Omen – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKM52CMl\_AU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKM52CMl_AU) FINAL FANTASY XII OST 3-04 – Seeking Power – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptBr3orXec0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptBr3orXec0) My Top 25 RPG Final Boss Themes #4- Digital Devil Saga 2 – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLJcVhqIdc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLJcVhqIdc) gotta stop myself there…barely scratched the surface! have programming to do…

I shuffle my “study” playlist which consists of 98% off-vocal Japanese pieces (vocaloid, touhou, other game pieces, and anime) and other American off-vocal stuff. The other 2 percent are random songs I like including Lights by Ellie Goulding.

ACDC, Metallica, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Metal themed Skyrim theme song covers.

currently listening to the Gorillaz, everyone here should check out there newest album. besides that… Queen, Chemical Brothers, Audiobody, bassnectar, the beatles, bob marley, clark, coldplay, crystal castles, daft punk, death cab for cutie, devin the dude, distance, the doors, the eagles, explosions in the sky, a flock of seagulls, flying lotus, three 6 mafia, incubus, journey, kanye west, lupe fiasco, the killers, led zepplin, manowar, marilyn manson, massive attack, matchbox twenty, metallica, MGMT, nickleback, nirvana, noise storm, peter bjorn and john, the police, prime & sisyphus, project jenny project jan, project pat, pendulum, the scorpions, shwayze, sleepmakeswaves, starkey, styx, supertramp, system of a down, tears for fears, theory of a deadman, they might be giants, vampire weekend, weezer, the widdler, ye banished privateers, 16 bit, and 2267 dubstep songs I listened to before dubstep was “cool”.