Suggestions for work music

[seeahill]

I work at home and work and play muted music in the background.

Since I work with words, the music must not have lyrics. I have a few favorites. Bach's double violin concerto in D minor. Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain. I've recently found dark ambience stuff that works.

Any ideas?

[syaigh]

I made a pandora station based on this song (not artist, song and artist together). Its very good for focus and calm.

https://youtu.be/0cHeNscKZN0

[Shafpocalypse Now]

surf guitar

[tough old man]

Traditional Japanese Kabuki theatre music

[tough old man]

Ive been listening to odd stuff you may like:

Visual Kei style - bands like X-Japan

Pirate Metal - Alestorm is a fav

Wizard rock - Harry and the Potters

Bubblegum Dance - Taxi Driver by Dr. Bombay is recommended

William Shatner covers.

Seriously. Google it up.

[tough old man]

you may prefer Lowercase.

Try Bell is the Truth (the Berlin edition)


I like Japanese Danger Music - Hanatarash.

[Blaidd Drwg]

Gojira

[Alfred_E._Neuman]

I like a lot of the ambient mixes this Frequency Therapist dude does. Mostly dig his space trance type stuff.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qm4ZvmDACY[/youtube]

[buckethead]

What does it matter if you mute it

[TerryB]

Bongripper

[seeahill]

What does it matter if you mute it

Good question.

I like music in the background, maybe just to not feel so all alone when I'm working.

[Thud]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xhfho

[Turdacious]

Joaquin Rodrigo.

[nafod]

You know how to rip music off of YouTube, right? Here's some tunes I like running in the background. I know them because my daughter plays them on the piano at home. There are other, maybe better versions out there. Hans Zimmer has some good stuff.

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2HunQtpP7E[/youtube]

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klVu9IxLnWE[/youtube]

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHeW2hbqXs[/youtube]

This one is a piano cover of a Korean k-pop song. She plays this all the time.

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSRQooyODw[/youtube]

Better version? http://youtu.be/NAqV4zPsw6I

[aussie luke]

Check out Ludovico Einaudi. Done a lot of film and tv scores I think. Recently discovered him after googling a tv theme song. Turned out to be great background music for work.

[beefheart]

I like John Fahey and later American primitives.

[seeahill]

There is a lotta stuff to work with here. Thanks for all the suggestions. I will work my way through them although I may skip Shatner covers.

[stosh]

I listen to Scott Joplin and other pre-depression piano stuff. And Benny Goodman. But I grew up with this kinda stuff in the house, so it's relaxing, thought-free music.

[Thud]

I listen to Scott Joplin and other pre-depression piano stuff. And Benny Goodman. But I grew up with this kinda stuff in the house, so it's relaxing, thought-free music.

Good calls. I like Duke Ellington and Benny Carter.

[nafod]

When I was in Qatar, I bought a CD of arab "chill" music as an experiment. It should have been labeling "chilling" as it sounded like an hour long recording of heads getting chopped off. Don't buy that.

[Wild Bill]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oekpl28S_U[/youtube]

[tough old man]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... 9GFuwxo8yQ

William Shatner with Henry Rollins

[JimZipCode]

What's your appetite for classical?

Bach Brandenburg Concerto's and Orchestral Suites:

(The Brandenburg #5 is excellent.)

More somber and repetitive, but very interesting if you like Bach, the Art of Fugue, here paired with the Musical Offering:

Most performances of Art of Fugue are very dry. This one is not.

Vivaldi.
Mozart Piano Concerto's.

[Andy83]

Try Techno

[Sangoma]

Goldberg variations - and anything by Bach for that matter.
Camille Saint Saens's Piano concertos.
Chopin - everything
Mozart - everything
Vivaldi - everything
Opera, especially Italian

Light jazz
If you get tired of original classics Jacques Loussier's trio - they make jazz covers for Bach, Mozart etc.
Bobby Timmons
Modern Jazz Quartet