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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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.
While coding for the past 2 years: Scooter. Normally my favourite genre of music is German Medieval Folk Power Metal.
Stuff like Tycho - Dive for when I really need to focus.
Rap mostly.
When programming however, Chill Lofi HipHop beats to study/relax to. Words distract.
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.
Polyphia typically
IT is not known to be a very diverse field, so I guess it’s not surprising that some music would be more popular with our crowd.
I like post-punk, post-rock, shoegaze, synthpop, electronica, dungeon synth, ambient, chanson française, that’s mostly it. If I had to pick one all time favorite band Cranes would be it. Discovery of the moment is Dry Cleaning.
Right now, a lot of MUNYA
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.
It’s probably easier to list what i don’t listen to: most country, hip-hop, rap, overly-noisy metal (where you can’t really understand what the singer’s grunting about), most pop.
Lately i’ve been listening mostly to Tool, Jinjer, Asian Dub Foundation and Thievery Corporation.
Tomorrow, who knows, maybe Madredeus or Garbage (the old stuff).Anything without lyrics. Same as others have said: synthwave and similar are great. Game soundtracks. Orchestra albums. Some metal.
Movie soundtracks are a another great resource for lyric-free music that haven’t been mentioned much yet.
The Tunic OST if I actually need to focus on what I’m writing.
Good Kid, Phoneboy, Chappell Roan, Charlie XCX, Andrew Garden, Landon Conrath, Mickey Darling, Kevin Walkman, Troye Sivan, Boygenius
I think those are the main ones. Also “Halloween” by Novo Amor is a banger
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
