If you’re like me (I start out too many posts like this) you find yourself coding to various types of music depending on your mood. When I’m needing that extra drive I tend to code to really intense music like Chevelle (This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In and Wonder What’s Next) or maybe Demon Hunter (Summer of Darkness). I’m pretty sure that most of my readers are not familiar with the latter band, but the first band, Chevelle, is rather trendy now. Not to sound like a snob, but I listened to Chevelle before they were cool… and really wasn’t a big fan of their Point #1 album. It had a few good songs, but the rest were ‘just there’ taking up track space. However, the two albums I just linked to at Amazon.com are really, really good hardcore rock.
What do you code to? If you don’t code, what do you work to? Feel free to leave a link to Amazon.com or some other source for really good workin’ music.
Mine lately has been the Lord of the Rings Soundtracks… just something like having theme music to my coding masterpieces (not really as my work pales in comparison to the music). Other than that, usually U2.
Sadly, in spite of my extensive playlist (2000+ tunes), I currently have been forced to code to “Toddler Tunes”. We received a nice little CD for Makena and listen to it in the car on the weekends. Now I can’t seem to get them out of my head. No amount of WinAmp seems to quell them so I’ve finally given up and don’t even bother pressing play. I just sit and hum “Where is Thumbkin” (no hand motions though since I’m usually busy typing) while banging out some C# or whatever. It does make for some quizzical stares from my co-workers as they pass my office though. So I hope they don’t worry about me too much. 🙂