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Posted by huachuma (My Page) on Tue, May 12, 09 at 19:21
| I'm lucky; the only guy that shares office digs with me is very tolerant and lets me listen to music throughout the work day (as long as it's not too far-out). In fact, if I don't have anything playing he complains that the "DJ" has missed his cue...
So I get to listen to approx. 7-8 CD's worth of music/day. Obviously this is not intent listening, but more background sound; if I really want to concentrate, I wait until I get home and throw on my headphones in a darkened room... Because of this I've stopped listening to tunes on my commute back and forth to work; I now listen to NPR during these drives (makes me a more rounded person, you know).
The only constraint is that my friend asks that I put on something he might recognize every so often, but he appreciates Blues, Jazz and the occasional old Country CD as well as Rock... His brothers were in Jazz band in high school and his dad was in a Polka band back in Michigan, so he's quite tolerant!
Today we listened to:
U2 - Boy
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Cream - Disreali Gears
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
John Lee Hooker - The Collection
The Beatles - Revolver
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Pixies - Doolittle
Tomorrow? Who knows? |
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RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| Wow, you're lucky in that you can play almost anything. I have my own office, which is great, but... it's next door to da boss. Although he "likes" music, he prefers to work in silence. So... each morning I tune in to my local FM on my computer, with very low sound. AM=classical, midday=World, 2-4=jazz,4-6 mostly French-Canadian.
A tother thang is that my door is sorta revolving. I get a lot of people coming in, so I don't find it practical to play cds 'cause I can't properly listen to 'em! When I do (very rarely), and it's usually instumental new age or classical, which I find is condusive to the kind of work I do. |
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| I can't usually listen at work. I probably still average 2 to 3 hours a day. iPods are wonderful but put you in a tuned out state. I still find it better to listen on speakers. Today I listened to Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears which I've been enjoying since it came out. I've recently become fascinated with this Taureg guitar stuff, Group Inerane, Tinariwen, and a Malian band called Terakaft. These are all currently in heavy rotation. |
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| I teach preschool classes, so I can play background music during learning center time. I usually put on something instrumental. I have classical mix CDs, old Coltrane jazz and Scott Joplin rags that the kids like. And there's always Raffi ... Besides that I listen to music driving in the car for about an hour a day. We have a new radio station that plays a decent mix, plus I have an iPod converter that plays my own stuff through the car's speakers via the cassette player. |
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| Folks that need/want to visit our IT department have to cross through our room to get to them. Luckily, all the doors are "badged" so I have a warning before they can enter. I can either hit the mute, pause or volume button before they enter. Same with phone calls; I don't really want to have music blaring when I answer... I have got a few odd looks when I happen to be playing 1930's era Big Bill Broonzy or 1950's era Johnny Cash even at a fairly low levels, but most people are used to me after being here for 15+ years... Occasionally we have have "visitors" from "Corporate" come thru; Then I have to be extra vigilant. Today I played some early Yardbirds and a Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie corroboration as well as others... |
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| Petaloid, My wife co-owns a preschool. so I'm well aquainted with Raffi as well as David Grover, whose group has actually performed at our school a few times. I forgot to mention that my buddy does not, in any form, appreciate Hip Hop or New Age music, so I can't play any Beastie Boys or Soul Junk or any thing that resembles an African beat without taking grief... |
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| Darn you, Kwoods! Now I have more music that I have to add to my "must sample list"! |
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| Until it closed last summer I worked in a hifi shop for 15 years. So we had music on from the start of day to the end of the day. We could listen to anything we wanted to hear except for heavy metal and rap music. We could demo gear with that music but the boss didn't want to just have it playing as background music. Now I work in a cell phone store and we listen to the local light rock FM channel all day on a boom box. Not as good but it does make the day go by better. |
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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I listen a lot. Right now I'm on my fourth 80 minute
compilation disc of the day, mostly blues. Yesterday
it was the a two disc surf guitar comp and one of reggae.
I've only recently started downloading and have gotten
all sorts of interesting things. If I'm watching "Dancing
With The Stars", "House", "Cold Case", or even a commercial, I'll jot down some of the lyric and Google it.
I just keep morning drive time free for some sort of talk radio, but even NPR turned me on to artists like Arturo
Sandoval and Little Village. Thank heaven for music. |
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| Of course I meant "collaboration" in my third to the last post! |
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| A little Mozart a day keeps the doctor away... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mozart Overture Don Geovanni
RE: How much music do you listen to each day?
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| JDBillup wrote, "So we had music on from the start of day to the end of the day. We could listen to anything we wanted to hear" Paradise! "And there's always Raffi ..." My son is 12 and just starting to really get into music. It's pretty cool to see him go on archeological crate digs and "discover" artists in my collection for the very first time. His tastes wander, he likes Elvis, Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, Ventures. He also listens to a lot of the current pop stuff his peers listen to. He's turned me on to some very interesting things all on his own as well. He's currently into Tomoyasu Hotei and all this weird electronic Japanese speed quitar stuff that's pretty mind blowing. Cool watching someone else's journey through music. |
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