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Ask HN: what tunes are you working to at the moment?
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- yan 18y agoThe new Kanye West album. But this is between coding; I can't concentrate on code while listening to music, especially with lyrics.
- PStamatiou 18y agothe same goes for me with the lyrics issue. which is why i tend to listen to techno/trance/electronic when hacking around
- jonursenbach 18y agoListen to some post rock. Explosions in the Sky, Do Make Say Think, Eluvium, Tortoise.
- yan 18y agoExplosions in the Sky is great. I also just caught Mogwai in DC two months ago.
- jonursenbach 18y agoYeah I saw them in September with Fuck Buttons. Show was bad ass.
- yan 18y agoFuck Buttons were excellent also. Great show all around. I saw NIN four times this year, dragging parents to one of the shows. The Lights in the Sky tour is amazing.
- jonursenbach 18y agoSweet. Last, and only unfortunately, time I saw NIN was in 2005 at the tour opener in Fresno, CA. Scored 8th row tickets the day before the show for $60. They rocked the place so hard, plaster from the ceiling was falling down. Quite an experience.
- robg 18y agoLast and only time I saw NIN was Dec 1994, fourth row via out-of-state Ticketmaster, at the old Boston Garden. Marilyn Manson opened up by spiting on the security crew in front of the stage while shaking his rubber pants with 24" prosthetic inside. The NIN set starts and we're all standing. I turn around, within 60 seconds, and my chair is gone. Folks had started ripping the wooden seats from the floor to make an impromptu mosh pit. It worked well except for the stray chair still intact.
- jfornear 18y agoDo you like Broken Social Scene? They are probably my favorite band. They have members from Do Make Say Think, Feist, Stars, Metric, Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, etc. I saw Explosions in the Sky in Denton, TX at Hailey's in 2004. Best live performance I've ever witnessed. I saw them again last year in Austin, but it wasn't that great because their new stuff isn't as good. I need to get Eluvium's latest album. I hear it's pretty good.
- jonursenbach 18y agoYeah, Broken Social Scene are the shit.
- bootload 18y ago"... what tunes are you working to at the moment? ..." ♫ Prairie-wind blowing through my head - trying to remember what daddy said ♫ Prairie Wind, NY ~ http://www.last.fm/user/bootload http://www.last.fm/user/bootload
- tylermadsen 18y agoFucked Up's 'The Chemistry of Common Life'
- PStamatiou 18y agohttp://www.thesixtyone.com/stammy/collection/#/stammy/collection/show_collection/73326/6/ http://www.thesixtyone.com/stammy/collection/#/stammy/collec... http://hypem.com/stammy http://hypem.com/stammy http://thefeelgood.com/paul/favourites http://thefeelgood.com/paul/favourites although i don't use the latter as much as i used to and as of late, "Alaska in Winter"'s latest album "Holiday" - it has lyrics but its more of electronic alt rock to me
- jonursenbach 18y agohttp://www.last.fm/user/jonursenbach http://www.last.fm/user/jonursenbach
- jamess 18y agoAh, my favourite vanity topic. This week I are mostly listening to Survival of the fattest by Prince Fatty.
- nostrademons 18y agoNightwish Radio on Pandora. Mostly Nightwish, Within Temptation, Evanescence, Edenbridge, Leaves' Eyes, etc.
- Jasber 18y agoAmie - Counting Crows (Pure Prairie League Cover)
- Shamiq 18y agoForgot the music was even playing... Feed on Me by Judas Priest
- transburgh 18y agoGirl Talk - Feed the Animals
- yan 18y agoYou can concentrate while listening to that?!
- kaens 18y agoI certainly can, in fact I've found it to be rather good coding music. Then again, I also find Lighning Bolt, Slayer, and Merzbow to be good stuff to listen to while coding. Merzbow especially helps me get in "the zone". Also: Shpongle, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Q and not U. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, American Analog Set, Fugazi, Fuck Buttons, Radiohead, and a million other bands / musicians I can't remember right now.
- transburgh 18y agoYeah. I was writing a blog post and the upbeat tempo helps me move right along.
- mdolon 18y agoAnother impressive DJ that caught my eye during the YouTube Live event: Mike Relm. I haven't heard all his stuff but his mixing on Live was pretty impressive.
- figured 18y agoTell me by Ron Sexsmith
- JMiao 18y agothe entire saturdays=youth album, specifically: m83 - graveyard girl http://www.thesixtyone.com/M83/collection/item/35995/?autoplay_song http://www.thesixtyone.com/M83/collection/item/35995/?autopl...
- jfornear 18y agoGreat album. "Kim & Jessie" is my favorite track.
- markbao 18y agoThat is a great track, and the entire album is excellent. My favourite track other than Graveyard Girl is We Own The Sky. And so are their other albums, Before the Dawn Heals Us and Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts and Digital Shades Vol. 1 and... hell, all their albums are good.
- msie 18y agoBehind Blue Eyes - The Who
- wheels 18y agoCan't we leave this to Twitter? I don't visit a news site to hear what music you're listening to right now. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367418 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367418 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212682 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212682 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=139901 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=139901 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99936 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99936
- rokhayakebe 18y agoWhen you listen to the same music you end up being bored and need recommendations. This is a problem that needs a startup to solve it.
- jonursenbach 18y agoPandora?
- wheels 18y agoLast.fm, iTune's Genius, Amazon's recommendations, All Music Guide, TasteKid, ...
- msie 18y agoNo. The topic of programming music certainly "strikes a chord" in the Hackernews community judging by the number of comments left on each topic...and I don't use Twitter. :) Plus...I've been reading Hackernews for the past year and this is the first time I've encountered this topic. The issue may be tiresome for you but not for others. Those related topics have moved off the first two pages of Hackernews never to be seen again.
- PStamatiou 18y agothere's a reason this topic comes up so much.. it's because it is a daily issue faced by hackers alike. you need to get work done but you need some good background music.
- rms 18y agoCommon's new album
- mdolon 18y agoDitto, sometimes I put Be, Electric Circus and Like Water For Chocolate on repeat. Kanye's new album is pretty hot too. Other than that, a little John Mayer or Coldplay doesn't hurt when I'm tired of spanish guitar music. I try to keep it eclectic.
- blacksquare 18y agochristmas songs - motown christmas
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- thomasmallen 18y agoBiggie...Large Professor...Big Daddy Kane...Rakim.
- brianobush 18y agoThe Wedding Toccata Theme by ModeSelektor - very minimal kraftwerk-like beats.
- unalone 18y agoEverything by Zappa. I discovered him this month, and he's quickly become my all-time favorite rock musician, and one of my favorite composers in any style. Today I listened through The Yellow Shark and Grand Wazoo, and "G-spot Tornado" more times than was probably healthy. Other biggies for me are Stephin Merritt, Sufjan Stevens, Bach, and Charles-Valentin Alkan, who's the best pianist nobody's ever heard of. (I listen to the Jack Gibbons recordings of him, for the record.)
- jfornear 18y agoThe National - Boxer, Virginia EP Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend Dr. Dog - Fate Department of Eagles - In Ear Park Britney Spears - Circus (jk)
- rksprst 18y agoBattlestar Galactica Soundtrack.
- numix 18y agohttp://www.last.fm/user/ninternity http://www.last.fm/user/ninternity Right now, I'm listening to Other Lives's self-titled album. That's for my college radio job, though. For programming, I listen to Brian Eno's Ambient albums.
- brandonkm 18y agoI really like to have mixes on, so I like http://www.mixriot.com http://www.mixriot.com for electronic/dance music.
- taylor 18y agohttp://www.awdio.com http://www.awdio.com Live DJs from the worlds best clubs. If you like house, lounge, downtempo, trance, electro, or even rock... this is for you!
- sobriquet 18y agokings of leon http://new.music.yahoo.com/singleVideo/?vid=14315075 http://new.music.yahoo.com/singleVideo/?vid=14315075
- napum 18y agoAcrid Avid Jam Shred - Aphex Twin
- abstractbill 18y agoPlaid - Not For Threes
- markbao 18y agoMy programming playlist consists of mostly – M83 Electronic/Shoegaze – Ratatat Chillout – Eluvium Ambient/Classical – Sigur Rós Post-rock/Ambient – Mono Post-rock/Ambient – Explosions in the Sky Ambient – Air Ambient – Brian Eno Ambient – Godspeed You! Black Emperor Post-rock – Jesu Post-rock/Drone – Mogwai Post-rock – String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay Classical – Yongfook (Jon Yongfook Cockle) Ambient Mostly ambient, post-rock, drone, and chillout. Either no vocals or ambient vocals. About 280 tracks in total, about 25 hours. Hit shuffle on that, and I have myself a killer well-mixed playlist in terms of variety, tempo, and genre selection.
- pz 18y agoamen! godspeed is a must have. i definitely prefer repetitive or ambient, non-lyrical music. sometimes i'll even put on sleep-music albums a couple albums in particular standout: * philip glass & ravi shankar - passages * kawabata makoto (of acid mother temple) - infinite love - i think this album is tuned to my brain's beta wave frequency. its like sonic ritalin * robert rich - somnium for more energy i usually look to montreal. godspeed and silver mt zion always please. a little bit lesser known is "do make say think" who are one of my desert-island bands. and sometimes, just sometimes, i just have to listen to dancey trance music. check out onnomon (who is also, by the way, my brother and an old timey hacker) as a side note, i mostly use rhapsody for online music. its just straightforward and easy... well worth the monthly subscription fee. if only the site was a bit faster. as far as free services go, i really like the spirit of last.fm but pandora's recommendations are consistently better.
- pxlpshr 18y agoNice! Lots of stuff on there I listen to. I have a growing appreciation for Yongfook... I'm using his Sweetcron script (which is brilliantly executed), his other projects are also really well done. It's just him and it amazes me that he has time to pump out his own music. Speaking of which, if you haven't heard this artist yet... you'd probably really like him. He was well known as a designer (iso50.com) and self-produced his own music, equally talented. http://tychomusic.com http://tychomusic.com
- wenbert 18y agoTool. I always start with Vicarious ;-)
- yummyfajitas 18y agoRight this minute, the album Worlds Collide by Apocalyptica. Two of the songs are just amazing: Helden, with vocals by Till Lindemann: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhq9n8gq4-0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhq9n8gq4-0&feature=relat... Yes, this is a cover of David Bowie. And it's vastly better than the original. SOS, with vocals by Cristina Scabbio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHEqpoADTY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHEqpoADTY&feature=relat... A little while ago was some Bob Dylan.
- vaksel 18y agoI just have Pandora with about 40 artists that I liked. Also did the whole thumb up and thumb down for most songs, so it usually just plays the things I like non-stop
- jamesbritt 18y agoAssorted post-rock in Amarok, lately liking My Education and Lymbyc Systym.
- rantfoil 18y agoYelle - Pop Up, Santogold, Stereolab
- zacharydanger 18y agoAesop Rock and the like.
- goodgoblin 18y agoMetallica's new album is actually pretty good - awesome music - though it seems that James's voice is starting to lag a bit behind the rest of the band - shame really - their first legitimate shred album in years. btw - I've seen this post on HN a few times now - always fun to read - has anyone made a web app for this yet?
- mattdennewitz 18y agotoday: the seeds - cant seem to make you mine hermits hermits - ms brown you have a lovely daughter joanna newsome - ys beach boys - pet sounds panda bear - person pitch bach - bradenburg concerto 1-4 (trevor pinnock ftw) sam cooke - live at the harlem square wire - pink flag aretha franklin - i never loved a man ... mark sultan - the sultanic verses (best album name) the field - from here we go sublime (it was a long, long day) misc from beatport.com preview
- bazookaaa 18y agoCrystal Castles. And Yelle, thanks to Garry Tan.
- lbolognini 18y agoListening to a lot of: 2562: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=107955 http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=107955 Martyn: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=144550 http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=144550 Burial: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=56124 http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=56124 Distance: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=64768 http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=64768 TRG: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=140948 http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=140948 All of the above fall under the realm of Dubstep, although 2562 is very techno influenced.
- jgranby 18y agoNice to see someone recomending dubstep. The more minimal, techno-influenced stuff is good for working to, particularly anything on Skull Disco. Also check out the Millie & Andrea 12".
- gstar 18y agoI could tell you about all the old stuff I listen to, but as for new stuff I _highly_ recommend Ladyhawke
- FreeRadical 18y agoI get money remix - 50 cent ft Diddy and Kanye
- truebosko 18y agohttp://www.last.fm/user/gniado http://www.last.fm/user/gniado Some favourites for actually working to: - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band - Radiohead - Sigur Ros - Boards of Canada - Laura (the post-rock band from austrlia, not the pop singer) - Do Make Say Think - Ratatat (mostly reserved when doing design work, not coding) - Portishead (see above)