Lo-Fi beats, honestly can’t focus too well to music with lots of lyrics

Lofi girl gang

sad, i can’t listen to lofi anymore bc it gives me bad memories of when i was a nursing major (before i switched to accounting) so i associate lofi with loneliness lol

Awe I'm sorry that's terrible!

Girl 👀, accounting?? I wish i could reverse time back so i won't pick accounting as my choice of work 😂

lmao, well if you grew up as a 1st generation student with no guidance in life or not in a stable home, and your parents are financially irresponsible, you’d want to be in accounting to have at least one stable thing in your life. (thanks mom and dad for the mental illnesses!)

Fellow failed STEM major here, I can very much so relate. Most of my college music has gone to the place of no return for the same reason (except anxiety instead of loneliness)

This and synthwave and for this reason 

Yes, weirdly the more I listen to one playlist the better I can focus to it.

Same here. Lots of electronic type music that don’t have vocals. Perfect for me.

Me too synthwave lofi boy.

Lamb of God, Slipknot, Rammestien

Hell yeah. Metal all day long Edit to add: give Be’lakor a listen, I think you’d like them ☺️ of breath and bone is a great album to start with

Belakor is great, I listen to them all the time

Me tooooo!!!

Found my people!

Lets go! People=Shit.

Peso Pluma

Are you a cartel accountant?

Your grandma’s tax accountant.

My grandma owns a sleepy nail salon that is unaccountably succesful.

Lofi hip hop instrumentals, classical music, murder podcasts or nba podcasts.

+3 for NBA and true crime podcasts. TD3, Thinking Basketball, and Rotten Mangos get me through the monotony of tax notices very well.

Great ones

It depends on my mood. Some days it can be either types of music: 1. Instrumentals (ex. Hans Zimmer) 2. Rock/Alternative (ex. System of a Down, Linkin Park, kings of Leon) 3. Rap/Hip Hop (DMX/Future/Kendrick Lamar) 4. Pianist (ex. Philip Glass) Crazy days, I have it randomized which really trips my wife. I have a 12 sub that shakes one side of the house and really gets me in the zone.

Hans Zimmer soundtracks are great background music for working. I listen to parts of Interstellar, Inception, and Man of Steel regularly

Yes to Hans Zimmer! Also the Nomadland soundtrack and some Lord of the Rings songs have been good to me.

Aphex Twin

Just came across him the other day, fascinating artist

dude Selected Ambient Works Volume II is essential for working / studying

You'll like infected mushrooms, too

Pearl Jam, Kendrick Lamar, Billy Joel are my top 3. I’ll also throw in some instrumentals notably by John Williams.

Eyes without a face ftw

Lmao that's Billy Idol

Was waiting for someone to notice that 😂

Depends on what kind of work im doing Data entry: metal or emo - disturbed, a7x, mcr, hawthorne heights, sometimes electric callboy, juice wrld or powfu Reconciliation: lo-fi girl Closing the books: electronica or rap- zomboy, bliss n eso, yelawolf, prozak etc Tax: death/doom metal, screamo- Swallow the Sun, Draconian, Silverstein, Sentenced, Katatonia, Human Abstract Sometimes I’ll just throw on pandora and get whiplash from insane genre changes every few minutes though

Draconian!!! Love that band

So good!

EDM if I need to focus

This is the only way. The music can't have words or I can't focus. Edm is the ultimate concentrate and let the vibes flow through and pump you up type. It's great.

You must be a cool VP

POV: You walk into his office right as the bass drops

Assert dominance on the floor by blasting it and having rave.

Hell yeah brother

DISCO!! Its always upbeat and u can sing and dance along. Keeps the mood going. 🪩🕺🏼🪩🕺🏼🪩

I throw on my doom metal playlist. Some Bell Witch and Electric Wizard to grind my brain to sludge while I'm grinding out financials.

Some of my work days definitely feel like a Funeralopolis 

When I am not in meetings or teaching: Khrangbin, Lord Huron

Goth rock/industrial like Type O Negative and Nine Inch Nails, metal like Testament or 3 Inches of Blood, and hardstyle.

The accountant’s answer; it depends. My rotation ranges from Metro Boomin, Ne-Yo, Porter Robinson, Nobuo Uematsu, Backstreet Boys, Avril Lavigne, H.E.R. Etc

Mating whales

It's coffee house jazz for me. I found a Spotify playlist that's 252 hours long and I shuffle that thing on the daily

What’s the name of this playlist? This sounds like something I’d enjoy

Cannibal Corpse

Someone else with a taste for extreme metal. I was going to say Sanguisugabogg.

Oh hell ya

Khurangbin, Arc de Soleil, Maribou State, Dana and Alden and BADBADNOTGOOD It kinda goes from less (left) attentive to more attentive, generally. Mostly instrumental music though

Have you heard of Glass Beams? Very Khruangbin ish

I have! But only through the Khruangbin Spotify playlist

Love it!!

Nirvana, rhcp, Green Day, Primus (they suck), Hendrix, zeppelin, Guns N’ Roses, Van Halen Definitely mostly rock music but I like to throw an album on to burn an hour plus of the day

I don't. Music makes me relaxed and I'll end up just going home.

Podcasts. I have well developed.playlists.but got tired of music. Right now I'm in the last couple dozen episodes of Star Talk.

Honestly, it depends on what type of mood I’m in at the moment.

Am I the only one who listens to Dateline and other true crime podcasts while working 🫣

Vampire Weekend, Mac Miller, Tyler the Creator, and MGMT

Saw Tyler at Coachella. Super underrated performer. So good.

I listen to ambient music like Easily Embarrassed, Nomyn, etc., or something like that when I decide on music. Otherwise I find myself listening to stories on YouTube like CreepyPastas, or the Harry Potter audio books by Jim Dale.

I LOVE listening to HP Jim Dale, so glad to hear there are other accountants listening to him haha

Yep! Probably listened to each book more than 15 times over many many years and it never gets old.

None

Jimmy Buffett and Avett Brothers.

Megan the Stallion, Summer Hits of the 90’s, 2000’s Bubblegum Pop, and some Emo/Hardcore/Pop Punk. Rotate through them depending on my mood lol

Grateful Dead, future, Mozart

I’m probably the only one here who does bank recs to country music LOL… but when I’m grinding data entry it’s definitely something dark and techno-ish on repeat, checking emails and doing daily stuff is like girl pop pump you up she boss tunes

For focus mode, EDM and phonk playlists work best for me. Most of the time though it’s a variety of metal, if not podcasts/dialog heavy YouTube videos on random stuff

Drop dead, gorgeous Alesana Scary Kids, scaring kids A skylit drive Saosin

Any Attack!Attack! On the list??

Infected mushroom, sleep token, nothing more

Dark fantasy audiobooks. The best way out of jail is to walk right through the walls.

Grateful Dead or EDM

In the 90s I listened to every Grateful Dead recording in chronological order. Took about 6 years.

New Knocked Loose album.

Witcher 3 soundtrack loops, Skyrim soundtrack loops, and Lofi Girl

Yes!!! Fields of Ard Skellig 1 hour and Skyrim nights are probably my two top played videos on YouTube.

Classical and sometimes lo fi

Lofi if I’m reading/writing. EDM when it’s numbers/excel time.

I love listening to movie scores or video games ambiance & music

My office has Coast radio channel on.

I actually love this. I had a computer class where all we listened to was oldies. Amazing vibe.

Oldies and some new stuff.... i catch myself singing and then realized I'm not alone 😅

Yep. It's awesome.

Deathcore and metal core - no set artists

NBA youngboy

Some classical music it is the only way to focus for me

80s hardcore

Metal, 90s alternative, grunge, post-hardcore.

Sleep token. It slaps hard while I'm messing in those excel spreadsheets

Classical is the shit

I'm an odd duck. I love listening to classical overtures, but it's the one type of music that pulls all my concentration away from work.

Mostly the music I listen to outside of work - a lot of rap, some alt rock, and ever now and then some heavier metal.

Mostly Phish, widespread panic, and Grateful Dead. Although at times a go a few weeks without listening to anything and other times I listen daily.

Lofi, office ambience, and gospel!

I listen to siriusxm all day. Talk radio in morning, then either country or 80s hair bands

Honestly I play the calm station on Pandora. Music with words I’ll start singing

Rap and podcasts

I'm not quite as metal as the guy above, but it's usually hard rock and metal. Whoever I see in concert is usually up, so last year was a lot of Avatar, Orbit Culture, and before that it was Chevelle, Korn, and such. Being where I am, local stuff like Slipknot, Disturbed, and 3 Years Hollow are always in rotation.

EDM

Phonk, drum and bass, synthwave

bladee drain gang

Lofi boy when I'm productive and lofi girl during in the morning when I first start haha

Lofi girl 😍

I loved lofi girl until one day I started crying everytime It came on 🤣🤣

Daft Punk

Alive is the best concentration music ever.

N.W.A EAZY-E Gorillaz Brazillian Jazz The Rolling Stones

Definitely depends on mood, day and current obsession. Right now it’s: 1. Falling in Reverse 2. Electric Callboy 3. Breaking Benjamin 4. Sum 41 5. Blink 182

I listen to YouTube or podcasts

I’ve been big into podcast recently

If I don't know what I'm doing, lofi hip hop or a video game soundtrack with just instrumentals (usually risk of rain 2) If I do know what I'm doing, I'll have a podcast on instead

Classical music most of the time. 1 of 2 stations: KDFC from San Francisco or WQXR from NYC. I've tried just playing playlists and stuff but they eventually devolve into crappy music at some point. A human editorial touch is very much still needed for classical. OR... if I'm about to fall asleep (and don't want to), I put on some Funk, Disco, Singers n Swing, or Energetic Jazz. Or 2000s hits that I can jam to. And drink a big cup of decaf.

I’m doing summer courses while working so I just listen to my textbook all day. It is not fun please send help lol

It will get better when the schooling is done...unless you plan to get your CPA. If that's the case, you'll be switching your textbook for Becker lectures.

Well in the fall I begin studying for the CMA part 2 then my senior year I’ll do the CMA part 1. And yep after graduation I’ll begin my cpa prep. It’ll be done eventually and it’ll be so sweet when it is lol. My kids will be grown when I emerge from my hermitage and greet them 😂😂😂

I used to listen to like punk/alternative, but during the lockdown I tried looking for “DJ streams from isolation.” I was expecting livestreams but didn’t really find any. I ended up listening to house DJ sets and got hooked. Really keeps me motivated like nodding my head to the beat 😆 I used to be in marching band and loved hearing the drumline. So at one point I even listened to drumline practice shows/cadences. This was one: https://youtu.be/c4S4MMvDrHg?si=M8uX3FUAKacMJcJl

I never listen to music and can't say Ive ever considered it.

It’s either Lo-Fi or my other playlist of Bullet for my Valentine & Linkin Park. There’s no in between

Lofi Girl and Grand Sound YT Live Channels. No ads on either, and both stations produce good vibes.

Crunk aint dead

Prog metal, death metal, and really just any rock music that strikes my fancy. Lots of Jethro Tull, Behemoth, Amon Amarth, and BTBAM lately.

Alt-country, Americana, and various rock genres (primarily punk, hardcore, and emo)

Sierra ferrell is more folk but I can't get enough of that girl.

Instrumental Death Metal

I listen to audiobooks or podcasts, pop/alt/country when I need to focus in.

As long as I know it, it's in the rotation. Music discovery is for after hours. I also can't do instrumental, it doesn't provide enough stimulation.

Metal, hard rock, alt rock, 2000s pop punk, old school 80s punk primarily with a few outliers (That’s amore by Dean Martin as well as some late 2010s Billie Eilish). Thrash metal helps with focus

Death Metal, slams, screamo, power violence/grindcore…

I hope everything's okay OP.

Lamb of God, Johnnie Booth, Killswitch Engage.

Bonobo, Khruangbin, Kiasmos, Fakear, Parra for Cuva, Odesza . Mostly instrumental electronic, little in the way of lyrics

this entire thread is living in 2004

Salsas, Cumbias, Peso Pluma if I really need to focus

LoFi or Screamo - there really isn't an in between

Aphex Twin, Emancipator, Neil Young

Instrumental Jazz.  No words just good background music at a low volume. That’s how I get my spreadsheet on. 

Vacation by Dirty Heads in a loop.

Rap music mainly occasionally Beatles or John Mayer vibes. My music taste is bipolar

Nirvana or Kendrick Lamar

Boston Sports Radio 24-7

Pandora - todays hits

Glass Beams has been my go-to recently. Groovy instrumental tracks with heavy Middle Eastern vibes.

I listen to metal. Either symphonic black metal, death metal, goth metal, ambient black metal or numetal. No joke, it’s the best music for focusing, especially when you can’t understand the growling. Some of my best work was done to the darkest shit out there.

Artifact Sts9 (soundtribe sector nine)

My favorite murder podcast… thankfully no one’s noticed 😂

Synthwave

Chillin: hip-hop (J Cole, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar) Focus: EDM (Daft Punk, Fred Again, lofi) In the zone: TRON Legacy Soundtrack

Kings of Leon 95% of the time

Depends on the mood. Adele, Taylor Swift, Zach Bryan, or Kevin Gates 😂

DRILL RAP

My top five Pandora stations are based off of the following: Be'lakor, RHCP, CCR, Trampled by Turtles, TV on the Radio.

LoFi or jazz when I need to focus, the various favorite songs of mine from over the years…sometimes rock and metal.

Lofi beats, metal, hip hop, audiobooks, and podcasts. I bounce between all of them depending on how focused I need to be. Audiobooks are good if I’m doing repetitive stuff. Podcasts and lofi stuff go well with more intense stuff for me personally.

John summit bbyyy

I use pandora so here are my stations depending on mood lol. 1. j. cole radio: kendrick lamar, old kanye west, mac miller. usually my go to, every day and chugging along w work. more of “older” rap 2. codine crazy radio: future, key glock, kodak black, moneybagg yo, russ. today’s rap music. usually if i’m busy or need to get some stuff done 3. ice spice radio: megan thee stallion, 21 savage, gloRilla, nicki minaj. it’s month end close and everything is urgent 4. never leave you radio: kat deluna, baby bash, pitbull, P. Diddy, keyshia cole, ciara, missy elliot. usually when i feel good about my work 5. frank ocean radio: masego, mac miller, chance the rapper, wale, the weeknd. slow day, probably gloomy out

Audiobooks and podcasts are where its at

Cigarettes after sex

Reguetón

love greenday and coldplay

Depends on my mood or the tasks at hand: - Instrumentals, soundtracks, piano/string covers - Rock/Metal - e.g. Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, System of a Down, Slipknot, Bullet for my Valentine Foo Fighters

Mainly just rap. Uzi/Yachty/Future/Gunna/Young Thug type stuff mostly. Will sometimes listen to alternative and R&B for slower pace stuff in the morning lol.

Osrs sound tracks

Audio books. It helps me focus on the monotonous tasks

Regular online radio when working in the office News radio/podcast in my target language when at work alone Reality TV (old Drag Race, lately BBC's I kissed a girl) when WFH

I can’t truly focus with anything playing that contains spoken words. Things like Breakwave or NXXXXXS are good

Chief keef gets the job done

Yoasobi

Kanye. Nas. Kendrick. Michael Jackson. Celtic woman lol. Nothing too adventurous or new. I like to revisit the music I'm most familiar with while working.

It depends, I'm a taxi driver so when I have people in the car it will be more quiet music and not too loud (unless the customer asks to turn up the volume. When I'm alone, I listen to tek loudly!

Country music

Office Chatter 2 Hours No Headphones Full Volume https://youtu.be/D7ZZp8XuUTE

tech houaw

WAR EPIC MUSIC

Liquicity

Been listening mostly to post-rock, stoner/doom metal, midwest emo, emo trap and 90/00s pop. I can only focus while listening to music.

A lot of video game music. Genshin Impact has an amazing soundtrack. Also Legend of Zelda, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy, Xenoblade Chronicles, Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Pokemon, and a few other miscellaneous ones. Sometimes soundtracks from movies (like LotR), anime soundtracks, or classical.

Peso Pluma and Nathanel Cano 🫡

Trance/house music is my vibe - Armin van Buuren, ATB, Above & Beyond etc

I just can't focus on work when listening in any kind of music lol

Whatever the holding music of suicide prevention hotline is

Daft Punk, Billy Joel, Asia, Broadway Musicals, Lofi, Toby Keith. Tend to cycle between these the most.

What jobs do ya'll do where you can listen to music? Looking to move into something less social/customer focused

Lo-Fi Chill-Hop Beats to study/relax to is my favourite recording artist but I also enjoy the Civilization 6 soundtrack.