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It varies. Sometimes I listen to movie soundtracks (mostly from John Carpenter movies like The Thing, They Live, etc.). A while back I played every song on my phone in alphabetical order which took a while (never knew I had so many different live versions of "Let There Be Rock" by AC/DC). I just started listening to the iTunes "Purchased" playlist. It's basically the history of every song I ever purchased from iTunes though I'm not sure how it orders the songs. I mostly like classic rock but I've recently gotten into some other newer groups/artists like Orianthi, Gary Clark, Jr., and Night Club.
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Mostly things before the 80's. Everything from classical (for hardest problems) to Merle Haggard to Pink Floyd. Silence when the going gets tough.
TOBACCO reminded me of an old transistor radio and trying to tune in an FM station that is between two others. It had some strange appeal though.
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Studies have shown that listening to music occupies the creative portion of your brain leaving your work product lacking in creativity. If I am forging new code, then I prefer silence.
If I need to drown out coworkers, I use a pink noise loop.
If I am doing some mindless editing, refactoring, or re-org, then I want something with a quick beat to keep me moving fast. A nice merengue usually does the trick.
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LOL, lemon?
I get manic. Literally, certifiably manic so creativity isn't a problem - an outlet is and sometimes coding just isn't enough.
I'm quite mad, you see.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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God is an Astronaut, Caspian, Explosions in the Sky, Do Make Say Think, This Will Destroy You, and Mogwai are my mainstays. Not fitting into that category, but something I've also been listening to lately is a lot of George Winston.
FormerBIOSGuy
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Pretty much anything from Fixt Records:
Cell Dweller
The Algorithm (switched labels some)
Blue Stahli
Raizer
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I'll check that label out.
I feel like that about Rhymesayers but then, I can listen to lyrics while I code and a lot of people can't. It also helps me focus when I'm manic because it ties up all the stray distractions into one place - any focus not on code is on the lyrics. =) I'm an oddball.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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It seems I am in a small minority, but I prefer to listen to classical - usually solo piano, but a wide variety of other styles under the "classical" umbrella... at a low volume and not too raucous.
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You might like George Winston, then. He plays solo piano; hard to say what his style is, but it is not classical.
"Forest" probably has the most songs that have made it on to my favorites list, but there are several good songs on all his CDs (I have 7 of them). His "Tamarack Pines" from the "Forest" CD is one of the coolest piano pieces I've ever heard.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look for some of his stuff.
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Do ghosts get arrested for possession?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Take this in good spirit: why do you haunt to know that sheet? There may be grave consequences.
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If they could get a rest, they wouldn't be ghosts. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Do you exorcize their rights then?
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally!
JaxCoder.com
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No, they get busted. 
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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Shame on you Griff, you have me coffin with laughter 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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This is a shade above your usual offering...
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Only if you're a socialist who thinks private property is theft.
Sorry for my bad English
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I'm reminded of an old episode of "Barney Miller" (that I barely remember otherwise) in which they had a guy in custody who was possessed and one of the guys on there says "Well, possession is nine tenths of the law."
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...in the backroom forum. Nice to see him and he is sharp as ever.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I take it his therapy has helped?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Absolutely, just in wrong direction.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I'm really glad I never go there ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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lw@zi wrote: backroom
You're not talking about soapbox 1.0 are you?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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