Ask HN: What music helps you GTD?

Posted by kadavy on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

For some reason, Ryan Adams's "Gold" has helped me focus for years: http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Ryan-Adams/dp/B00005QY5Y

I'm also experimenting with the "soothing" tag station on last.fm. Through that I discovered the "Violet Indiana" artist station as well.

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Re:Ask HN: What music helps you GTD? by thewordpainter on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:23AM (#1833130)

three personal (primarily instrumental) favorites:

explosions in the sky: http://gorankem.com/artists/64517-Explosions-in-the-Sky

sigur ros: http://gorankem.com/artists/11546-Sigur-R-s

mogwai: http://gorankem.com/artists/3544-Mogwai

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Re:Ask HN: What music helps you GTD? by yankov on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:27AM (#1833137)

I mean, working under post-rock doesn't sound like a good idea

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Re:Ask HN: What music helps you GTD? by kadavy on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:36AM (#1833170)

+1 for explosions, trying out the last.fm station right now

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Re:Ask HN: What music helps you GTD? by yankov on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:26AM (#1833134)

that's an awesome music, but how can you work listening that.

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Re:Ask HN: What music helps you GTD? by richardw on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:34AM (#1833159)

Weirdly, hard trance that I know well. I can work to rock or classic, but something like a good Astrix album really gets me working well. If I know the album well I don't think about it, I can focus on the work at hand.

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Re:Ask HN: What music helps you GTD? by sixtofour on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:06AM (#1833238)

Silence.

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