Listen to music (for the sake of listening to music)
Any other time you can think of the you listen to music regularly.
does it differ and why?
Pesonally, I do notice that my listening habits do follow different trends, depending on when and where I am listening.
When I'm working, and trying to drown out background noise I listen to something I know really well, but at the same time relaxing since I find that it is not distracting, although while working I usuallly don't listen to anything I get interrupted too often and taking the headphose off every time someone arrives with a question ot the phonerings gets tiring very quickly.
When driving I usually listen to something a bit louder, that being in part to the fact that in a former lifetime I did a lot of log distance driving at night and found that that more stimulating music was better for helping with alertness. Since then the habit seems to have stuck.
When listening to music for the sake of music, my choices vary wildly in styles, and seems to follow no particular pattern.
The one observation I make as I look at my music collection is that i does not include, nor do I listen to 'teckno' style music.
Working - generally the radio and its usually classic rock or rock.
Driving - I am currently on an assignment that keeps me traveling weekly (4 hour trip one way) so I am generally listening to audio books. Da Vinci Code, The Street Lawyer, and The Breathren recently
Generally listen to classic rock, rock, blues, and other music like Ray Charles last CD
I listen to what I listen to. Any other activity I may be doing has little influence over my choice. The only real exception, if I'm sleepy and need to stay awake, hard rock is the way to go...and cranked up. I will listen to tunes while I work at, say, scrubbing the kitchen floor. I don't listen to anything while I'm coding. Even attempting to engage me in conversation will fail unless you persist enough to break my concentration. I must first stop coding...then I will hear you. Ditto anything requiring concentration.
Mostly I listen to British folk and folk rock. But I like lots of stuff. I don't take this as far as google... I do find some sub-genres to dislike. Google, listen to opera for an hour, then disco for an hour. Then tell me "Any kind of music is good music". I double dare you!
But techno is a very broad genre to dislike in total. I really like very hard trance (mostly German). Speedcore is starting to grow on me, but I'm still evaluating this. Or the other hand, I can pass on jungle and here my evaluation is complete. I loved synthesizers when I first heard Wendy (nee Walter) Carlos' Switched on Bach. Since then I have sought out anything involving synthesizers and that includes techno.
By the way, mix world music (a superset of british folk) and techno and you kinda get Dead Can Dance. I love them, but they're not for everyone.
Agreed, more accurately I would say I do not like enough of any one sub-genre or artist to justify it's inclusion in my collection. There are always individual tunes which trancend this boundary.
ok, you got me. I generally stay pretty far away from Opera, but occasionally do get a kick out of and a laugh from some old disco! I generally listen to folk rock as well (bob dylan, old neil young) and I even get into some punk and speed metal. I listen to a wide range.
I always get them with that. Some people like opera. And some people like disco. But one person who likes both? Not on this planet. (But I have gangster rap and bublegum in reserve just in case... )
Hmm.... I just listen to dodgy alternative/indie rock, plus some old 60's and 70's stuff. When I'm trying to recover a hosed system for a customer, however, I tend to turn all music off.... :rolleyes:
I avoid the 80's as if it were the plague. The fashion, the music... ewwww... I mean come on people, wearing keyboards around their necks like guitars, what the hell was that all about?!?!
Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, U2 are the bands that I listen to most often. Sometimes get in the mood for really heavy metal. Instrumental is always interesting... Joe Satriani and Indian Classical.
The last is never put on by me, I just listen to it if its on. But I never listen to anything when coding/scripting or fixing screwed up systems.
classical and/or anything instrumental music only when driving on the highways ... all those voices in the other formats translate into white noise and make me very sleepy ...
country music most other times ... and then easy listening ...
classic rock and/or oldies when driving wife's car ...
no music when concentrating on coding or troubleshooting ...
Hey all, this would be my first post to the unix.com forums. I guess the title 'music' just caught my attention. I was listening to the radio one day and heard the song "Remedy" by Seether. The song was quite beguiling, so the next day I sought out to buy their CD. They are my favorite band at the moment and I tend to play them whatever I'm doing.
However, I seem to play music that reflects to how I'm feeling, not by what I'm doing (Working, driving etc..)
Depressed - Seether
Angry - Disturbed (hah, go figure)
Sad - Love songs from the movies such as hungry eyes, up where we belong, you've lost that loving feeling etc.. (don't laugh!)
Happy - Yellowcard, simple plan, Foo Fighters and many others
Some people like opera. And some people like disco. But one person who likes both? Not on this planet. (But I have gangster rap and bublegum in reserve just in case... 
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