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 like to listen to human music:
Ahh yes, human music. I like it.
My man!
Why manually enumerate when I can show you all the data ;)
Clicked when you were listening to pink pony club, awesome song
Hah that was in my listenbrainz recommendations
That looks really interesting, thanks for sharing
I code in silence.
But when I listen to music I REEEEAALLYYYYY L I S T E N. Stuff like Tool, Coin Locker Kid, Kaoru Abe - and I find it impossible to concentrate on code while those play, they mentally drag me in.
Same. I can’t even have understandable lyrics if I’m going to concentrate.
My work playlists are completely different. More cinematic scores, world music, ambient whatever. There is some metal that bridges the gap, but it has to be very death.
I’ve started listening to stuff like Babymetal because it’s in Japanese and my brain doesn’t get distracted by words in a foreign language.
I’m a fan of japanese indie like Gesu No Kiwami Otome.
I have some Japanese metal bands in the rotation for just this reason. Metal works in a lot of languages, actually.
Mostly rock & metal (Examples being: Architects, Beartooth, Chaosbay, While She Sleeps, Dark Tranquillity, Ice Nine Kills, Periphery, Babymetal, & Hanabie.. Though, throw a piano solo in and I’m sold (Corelia’s “Treetops”, for instance — I need to explore more symphonic metal. Not that Corelia is– anyway).
With that said, I’ve also got a few outliers that mostly include game & TV OSTs (Hoyo-MiX, Crush 40, kessoku band). Add in a few tracks from LiSA, and “Ghost” by Hoshimachi Suisei & the cover by Rachie to really leave my Spotify Recommended dazed & confused.
TL;DR: The spectrum of rock & metal all the way from Incubus to Lorna Shore, with sprinkles of J-Pop, Electronic, & random OSTs to really hospitalize my Spotify Recommended.
Progressive metal & related genres (currently listening to the newest Eidola album on repeat, and some Dance Gavin Dance), and bebop jazz.
But I don’t program; I’m mostly cleaning up artwork for commercial printing.
Techno, dubstep, various game OST’s, some metal, orchestral, and various pop songs my partner turned me on to. Quite a few touhou remixes too.
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Stuff like Tycho - Dive for when I really need to focus.
I like dungeon synth; particularly, the comfy synth subgenre
Retro synth stuff is also nice
I also enjoy various fusion 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.
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.
When I’m trying to focus I tend to listen to System of a Down or Rammstein. The rest of the time it tends to be pop music from the radio (usually BBC Radio 1) or lofi.
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.
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
Polyphia typically
