Non-AMX Thread: What are you listening to?
jjames
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Okay, this is completely off topic for this forum, but I thought it'd be kind of fun, if not - kill the thread by not responding, and give it a week or two to disappear.
So, what are you listening to right? Feel free to post an album you're listening to, the current song, or even the jackhammer outside your window, and go ahead and update what you're "listening to" as often as you want.
Right now, I'm listening to The Wall - Pink Floyd (currently on "Goodbye Blue Sky"); 3rd time I've heard the album today - probably gonna switch over to the new Fratellis album next.
(Oh and Suzanne, please feel free to move this anywhere you feel appropriate.)
So, what are you listening to right? Feel free to post an album you're listening to, the current song, or even the jackhammer outside your window, and go ahead and update what you're "listening to" as often as you want.
Right now, I'm listening to The Wall - Pink Floyd (currently on "Goodbye Blue Sky"); 3rd time I've heard the album today - probably gonna switch over to the new Fratellis album next.
(Oh and Suzanne, please feel free to move this anywhere you feel appropriate.)
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I figured this might be the easiest thread for anyone and everyone to post. Plus, it's one of those things - don't need to put much thought into it.
(BTW - I did just switch over to new Fratellis album.)
(i didn't pick it, it just came up. I actually don't like to listen to myself much.)
Artist: Charlie Parker
Album: Bird and Miles
Track: Moose the mooch
Later, I might make the move to Sirius Pops 86 (good for deep thought programming
Jeff
Sirius update: Diana Ross - I'm coming out.
Blind Faith - one of the greatest rock records ever recorded!
I have it on repeat mode so I've heard it maybe 10 times already.
TOP 5 albums at the moment - not in any order and it does change week to week.
Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Who's Next - The Who
Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
Rocks - Aerosmith
nice thread JJ
Tomorrow Wendy is going to die by Concrete Blonde
1 tin soldier by Coven
Eve of Destruction by Barry Mcguire
A custom CD of my own and many others still to play.
MP3's that I could find.
It's been an Iron Maiden kind of year!
I read the thread title and thought..."Uh Oh..here we go"! but, you know I reckon the topic is AMX related because I for one simply can't work without music - the silence confuses me!
So, we share ideas code fragments and help others debug stuff - the least we can do is share our environments too!
I actually believe an excellent new feature for NSX would be to be able to add tracks or playlists to the workspace. Imagine getting to site, launching NSX and George Thorogood lets rip with 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer'.
Awesome potential feature I reckon!
:-)
Right now I'm on to some Cafe del Mar Volumen Ocho. Just finished Pink Floyd Division Bell
Always seem to fire up some early Dire Straits or Pink Floyd when under the pump I must say! Clears my head right out. A legacy from my previous AV programming life (multi-image slide/tape) where the bulk of our work was done burning the midnight oil.
...and of course, always have time for some classic Dark Side Of The Moon.
Anyway, I just got the latest Indie Rock Playlist which has 120 songs on there, and mostly artists I've never heard of, but still very good. If I come across any decent songs, I'll be sure to update.
Oh - and BTW Tracy, I've heard of Iron Maiden but never heard them, so this morning I got on YouTube and watched a video of theirs, wasn't bad at all. I thought it was going to be COMPLETE screamer music - seem to've been wrong.
I find music distracting when I work. If I play music, it usually occupies more of my attention than my programming, so I have to keep it quiet.
That's why I like to jump to sirius pops 86 (classical). I leave it at a lower volume, but loud enough to sort of drown out the occasional noise that might distract me. No lyrics, so my mind doesn't start doing something like CTRL-F to searching .....SEEK AND DESTROY! or IF(God was one of us) ELSE Just a stranger on the bus? (Currently playing song
When I am doing normal coding or making small modifications, it doesn't matter to me what is playing as I am often interrupted by co-workers or clients calling more often than by my mind wandering to the music.
Jeff
P.S.
Madonna's Borderline is currently playing.... Now it's the Who and I Can See for Miles.
P.P.S.
Today has started of sucking, so it made me want to hear a song that I occasionally like to listen to while troubleshooting wiring problems on site: Linkin Park's One Step Closer. I unfortunately don't have it on my computer right now, so I had to settle for the lyrics
LINKIN PARK LYRICS
"One Step Closer"
I cannot take this anymore
Saying everything I've said before
All these words they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
Less I hear the less you'll say
You'll find that out anyway
Just like before...
[Chorus:]
Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
I'm about to break
I find the answers aren't so clear
Wish I could find a way to disappear
All these thoughts they make no sense
I find bliss in ignorance
Nothing seems to go away
Over and over again
Just like before...
[Chorus]
Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
Shut up when I'm talking to you
Shut up, shut up, shut up
Shut up when I'm talking to you
Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up
I'm about to BREAK
[Chorus]
Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I need a little room to breathe
Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break
I'm actually with you on this. When I'm coding, I like it quiet. I think of that old cartoon with the bear who wants to sleep and some other charactor is trying to prevent any noise from happening so he won't get a pounding...
When music is playing, I'm doing touch panels or something other than code. Yesterday we were just working on an IR problem with DirectTV Sat recvrs.
The greatest radio station ever. If not for KCRW I would not know anything about music. Thank you KCRW!!
Nice thread Jay!
Otherwise, if I'm programming something more intensive or simply trying to think hard on something I'm doing, then I tend to prefer silence, but can settle for most kinds of music. I'm the sort of person that gets "in the zone" and utterly forgets that the world exists, or that I haven't eaten in a long time - you know, minor details.
Currently I'm listening to songs on Sirius radio that I'm unfamiliar with due to my absurdly limited knowledge of pop culture. The head programmer tends to pick the station.
Paranoid
HORNS UP!!!!
\../,
It helps me to clears my head of other issues and focus on the programming.
Jeff