Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming?

Re:Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming? by projectileboy on Thursday January 17, 2008 @07:50PM (#100075)

I alternate between classical (I like Mozart and Beethoven and some others) and electronic/techno dance music. I can't have vocals; it breaks my flow.

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Re:Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming? by jward on Thursday January 17, 2008 @09:38PM (#100115)

I'm exactly the same way but I've found that sighs j-pop fits in this as well. If I can't understand the words then it doesn't break my flow. German techno also seems to work.

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Re:Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming? by lg on Thursday January 17, 2008 @10:20PM (#100131)

I like music with nonsense lyrics for the same reason, i.e. cocteau twins, sigur ros, dead can dance. Otherwise, ambient stuff like explosions in the sky, god is an astronaut, mono (the japanese mono).

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Re:Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming? by eloisius on Friday January 18, 2008 @09:09AM (#100308)

Try some Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Re:Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming? by aswanson on Thursday January 17, 2008 @11:34PM (#100164)

I hear you on the vocals; your brain might work like mine...I never forget a conversation and I can't tune them out no matter how trivial.

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