Whistle While You Work???

Who here listens to music while they work?

When it comes to music I personally view it as kind of a big deal… Music has a power over people that is astounding. Music can affect people is so many ways. I listen to music in almost every single part of my life, and some people (i.e. my mother) can’t understand how I can do so. When I am driving in the car or cleaning my house obviously it is playing and that’s normal in her eyes. But, I also listen to music while talking on the phone (in the car or not), while I’m writing a paper, while I’m getting ready, while I am studying, while I’m at the salon, literally almost every element of life is filled with music and I love it.

I listen to almost all kinds of music... Personally I view music as a necessity. Music is how one expresses themselves and can affect an individual in many ways. It can lift me up when I’m down, it can pump me up when I need a confidence boost, it can do so much to change an individual.

I grew up loving music and soon got into theatre and choir. I sat first chair first tenor in the most elite choir in my high school for all four years. It was there that I learned such an appreciation for quality music, a variety of music and the need for a quality system to play it on. I’m not afraid to say that I will spend money on a quality sound system (another thing my parents don’t understand.) My living room has a 10 speaker surround sound system that costs more than a months rent. My car has a 12 speaker JBL system that can be heard from blocks away. Even my computer has a 7 speaker surround sound system. (of course I’m currently jamming out as I write this). I don’t have the nice sound systems to annoy the neighbors or be the one who can rattle the trunk of their car the loudest, but instead to listen to quality music and be able to hear all the elements of the music itself.

OK OK I know I’m ranting… regardless…. I just wanted some opinions on music in your everyday life. Does anyone agree with me, or my mother, or have any opinions they want to share???


TTYL, Sky

I'm the same way. I listen to a lot of music. However, in the mornings I tend to listen to podcasts on my way to work but when I'm here in the office I usually have something playing. I used to take great care in choosing the right CDs for trips but now I just take my ipod (what a Godsend).

Im always listening to music, sometimes the radio, sometimes my own playlists, and podcasts to :D

Currently my playlist consists of drum n bass!

Pendulum, Calyx ect .. weeee :shades:

we listen to the I-Tunes radio most of the time but we also have a lot of cds loaded into the player and we also have Turner Classic Movies in the background - this is keep us happy and moving along and, also to serve as a good way to try to drown out the endless sound of the 10,000+ gardeners who descend on us every day to keep our neighborhood "picture perfect" at all times (a plug for the BH chamber of commerce!)

now you know why I hate doin biz over the phone!

Music means the world to me! From the moment I arrive to the office to the very second I leave music is being played. For the 1st three-hours of every morning (while alone @ office) tunes rediate from my sub & speakers.
Once the sleepyheads arrive (10am or so) the SennHeisers go on and my eyeballs start shaken!

For a while I was posting what I was listening to, but not many seemed to hold the same regard for music. http://forums.gaywidewebmasters.com/...d.php?p=111260

I'd rather lose my penis than my hearing because it's (music) THAT important to me!

just check out my sig - if yer a house fanatic you'll know it.

I'm the same way. Music is, as Shakespeare once said, the food of love, and I am ALWAYS eating! That's one of the reasons why I chose entertainment journalism as a career, because I get to write about one of my main interests -- and I get to interview some of my favorite performers and artists. There's NO better job! :)

I shower to music, I drive into work to music, I work with music on my iTunes, I have sex to music, and I put music on to fall asleep to. I'm almost always listening to music.

I've met people who claim they just don't get into music, and I'm almost absolutely blown away by a statement like that. I simply can't understand how anyone could not LOVE music. It's one of the most amazing things in the world. Besides movies (my other major passion), there's nothing that I use as a tool for personal catharsis and therapy more than music. And yes, I'm all over the place with the music that I listen to. Alternative, rock, pop, indie, classic rock, punk, R&B, hip-hop, experimental, showtunes, folk, country... you name it, I love it. (Except for rap and metal, I'm pretty much into it all.)

To me, there's no more beautiful moment than when a musician bares his or her soul in a way that cuts right through your heart and you are on the "same page" with them. It's an emotional connection that transcends the fact that you may have never met.

My whole thing about the arts is that people love it because it brings people together. People don't go to the movies to "lose themselves." They go to find themselves. They go to share in a common experience. They go to relate. They go to not feel alone. It's the same with music. It's an experience that joins people together on somewhat of a cosmic plain where we are all just people with hopes, fears, loves and losses that we want to express.

I wish I was a musician. :)

Paco,

Did you ever get a chance to check out Alarm will Sound?

I enjoy music and I actually spent 5 years in the music biz as tour/business manager for touring musicians, and never tired of watching some of the artists I worked with perform night after night. And my taste is pretty eclectic, everything from jazz to new age to rock to go-go (if anyone remembers that).

The weird thing is, though, I don't work well with auditory stimulation while doing other things. I'm usually not effective at listening to music while writing, working, reading or studying, and I can carry on 4 IM convos and do work on my computer, but I absolutely can't talk on the phone and do anything else at the same time.

BTW, if everyone isn't already familiar with Pandora.com, you should definitely check it out. You put in the name or names of artists or songs you like, and it plays some selections from your list, and also plays you a bunch of new stuff that has similar attributes.

i love music above all things, but because it draws my attention i can neither accomplish as much nor do it as well with music playing. i tend to focus on the music rather than the work.

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i love music above all things, but because it draws my attention i can neither accomplish as much nor do it as well with music playing. i tend to focus on the music rather than the work.

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Who is your favorite bass player?




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i love music above all things, but because it draws my attention i can neither accomplish as much nor do it as well with music playing. i tend to focus on the music rather than the work.

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Hey, Patti... this never occurred to me before to ask... so of bass players, which of these are your favorites, assuming you're familar with some/all? (I know I'm missing all the heavy duty rock guys, I'm more of a jazzer...)

Jaco Pastorius
Michael Manring
Victor Wooten

a lot of people consider Jaco the most important bass player. my favorite bass players are local - brian allen and foster from extra fancy. but i also love fieldy from korn, who i consider one of the biggest names who brought bassplayers forward from being hidden in the mix to being a big part of the entire toon. and don't forget les claypool - the man is mad, and i respect that in a musician. and i like the entire idea of carol kaye - when virtually NO musicians were women, she became the first studio bassist.

but honestly a lot of my faves aren't bass players. i love hubert laws, and he's a flute player who did one of my all time favorite jazz albums which include doing some wonderful jazz versions of some classical music. one of my very first musical influences was leon russell from his early phases - like his album, leon russell, his work with the shelter people and the stuff he did with joe cocker and all the mad dogs and englishmen back in the late sixties and early seventies. i also revere frank zappa's music from his early-ish days.

often albums are more important to me than artists: strong early influences for me include hot rats, captain beefheart's trout mask replica and joni mitchell's ladies of the canyon.

enough about me - what were your formative artists or albums?

..."let there be music!"...

there is always something playing , including when i finally lay down and go to sleep. (thank god cd's do not wear-out like records on continous play!)

sincerely ~ ..."i just find quiet "distrubing!"... (and this comes from someone living in the middle of 250 acres of ranchland) :fool:

Now Playing: Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car

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enough about me - what were your formative artists or albums?

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I like so much. But if i had to STRICTLY narrow it down to groups and artists that really got to me:

Bee Gees - Best of the Brothers Gibb
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Kate Bush - The Red shoes
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
Michael Franks - Tiger in the Rain
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
with Steve Vai as my favorite guitarist and Bootsy Collins as my favorite Bass Player


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some very cool folks/stuff on your list :) sly's stand is wonderful and price is always good, somehow. bootsy mystifies me because in his OWN music, he has the bass turned so far down in the mix it's not always even easy to hear but he IS very talented.

tango in the night - ah! my only influencial video is tango in the night - it's made from their 3 live shows at the cow palace when rick vito and billy burnette(?) were with them in place of linsay buckingham. this video just had something - not sure what - that grabbed me.

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some very cool folks/stuff on your list :) sly's stand is wonderful and price is always good, somehow. bootsy mystifies me because in his OWN music, he has the bass turned so far down in the mix it's not always even easy to hear but he IS very talented.

tango in the night - ah! my only influencial video is tango in the night - it's made from their 3 live shows at the cow palace when rick vito and billy burnette(?) were with them in place of linsay buckingham. this video just had something - not sure what - that grabbed me.

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That's interesting, cause I always ignored the video that didn't have the original members of Fleetwood Mac in them. I'm funny THAT way.

And you're right about Bootsy. I know part of why I like his stuff is the total weird package.


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I need to listen to music more often when I work. Not sure why I don't do that more. Usually I have the tv on or something.

Mark

I didn't know where else to put this. LOL.

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tango in the night - ah! my only influencial video is tango in the night - it's made from their 3 live shows at the cow palace when rick vito and billy burnette(?) were with them in place of linsay buckingham. this video just had something - not sure what - that grabbed me.

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I think it was Stevie's hair. Man, it was huuuuuuuge in that video!

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That's interesting, cause I always ignored the video that didn't have the original members of Fleetwood Mac in them. I'm funny THAT way.

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Actually, SPACE GLIDER, by the time Lindsey and Stevie joined Fleetwood Mac they had already been around for something like ten years, so they actually aren't the "original" members. ;)

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Actually, SPACE GLIDER, by the time Lindsey and Stevie joined Fleetwood Mac they had already been around for something like ten years, so they actually aren't the "original" members. ;)

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OMG ... did they have any hits before Buckingham and Nicks?

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OMG ... did they have any hits before Buckingham and Nicks?

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Oh, honey, you got me started on the Mac. Dangerous waters ahead. LOL!

Fleetwood Mac started out as a blues band in England. They did not have any hits until coming to the states in the early 70's but did develop quite a following. If you want a fascinating read, check out Mick Fleetwood's autobiography. In the first few years the band had one member go insane, one joined a religious cult, and one just disappeared. Mick also reveals his love of crossdressing and makes one simple allusion to the fact that there was a sexual encounter with his original guitarist, Peter Green. Christine McVie wasn't even a member when the band first started. She came along later. The original lineup was a rowdy group of young english lads who would do crazy stage antics. They would have a proper English butler walk on stage with a covered silver platter, which he would uncover to reveal a shiny silver dildo, and John McVie would hang condoms filled with milk off of his bass guitar.

After being in the states and losing yet another band member, Mick Fleetwood was checking out a studio to record their next album when the studio tech threw on a tape from a young couple who had recorded an album there some months earlier. The album was called Buckingham Nicks (one guess who the young couple was). Mick was so impressed with Linsey's guitar playing that he asked him to join the Mac without even an audition. Lindsey refused to join if they wouldn't take Stevie as well, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The Buckingham Nicks album went nowhere and the couple were close to giving up when they got the call from Mick. Sadly, this little gem of a record never made it to CD, but if you'd like to hear it you can get mp3's of it here (click on "Buckingham & Nicks" and then "multimedia"). I don't mind posting this since you can't get the tracks any other way. It's a stunning album, even if it's a bit dated. There are some live tracks posted on that site as well under the "fun stuff" section that features a very early, pre-fleetwood mac performance of Rhiannon that sounds really punk rock to me.

Okay, back to work. :)

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Paco,

Did you ever get a chance to check out Alarm will Sound?

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oh hellz yah!
After you FYI'd me (BTW - where do I send the payment?) I actually found some downloads and added them to my list of tenting tunes, which I enjoy, after a day of skinning & skiing, while staring out of my tent (sleeping bag) at the stars.

Oh yah - at this very moment I am noddin' to DJ Cam's Attica Blues.

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I love Music For Airports. It's one of my favorite things to write to. I found a podcast where this musical group recreated the entire thing live on stage using modern instruments, painstakingly recreating each tone, note and sound perfectly. it's really amazing to hear.

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Oh, honey, you got me started on the Mac. Dangerous waters ahead. LOL!

Fleetwood Mac started out as a blues band in England. They did not have any hits until coming to the states in the early 70's but did develop quite a following. If you want a fascinating read, check out Mick Fleetwood's autobiography. In the first few years the band had one member go insane, one joined a religious cult, and one just disappeared. Mick also reveals his love of crossdressing and makes one simple allusion to the fact that there was a sexual encounter with his original guitarist, Peter Green. Christine McVie wasn't even a member when the band first started. She came along later. The original lineup was a rowdy group of young english lads who would do crazy stage antics. They would have a proper English butler walk on stage with a covered silver platter, which he would uncover to reveal a shiny silver dildo, and John McVie would hang condoms filled with milk off of his bass guitar.

After being in the states and losing yet another band member, Mick Fleetwood was checking out a studio to record their next album when the studio tech threw on a tape from a young couple who had recorded an album there some months earlier. The album was called Buckingham Nicks (one guess who the young couple was). Mick was so impressed with Linsey's guitar playing that he asked him to join the Mac without even an audition. Lindsey refused to join if they wouldn't take Stevie as well, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The Buckingham Nicks album went nowhere and the couple were close to giving up when they got the call from Mick. Sadly, this little gem of a record never made it to CD, but if you'd like to hear it you can get mp3's of it here (click on "Buckingham & Nicks" and then "multimedia"). I don't mind posting this since you can't get the tracks any other way. It's a stunning album, even if it's a bit dated. There are some live tracks posted on that site as well under the "fun stuff" section that features a very early, pre-fleetwood mac performance of Rhiannon that sounds really punk rock to me.

Okay, back to work. :)

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Now that is something I've NEVER EVER known. And it really make the band (Mick especially) even more interesting than I'd thought. I don't know why I'd had it in my head that the band really didnt exist long before "Rumors" or whatnot! And did EVERY English rock band start off as a blues band?


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Now that is something I've NEVER EVER known. And it really make the band (Mick especially) even more interesting than I'd thought. I don't know why I'd had it in my head that the band really didnt exist long before "Rumors" or whatnot! And did EVERY English rock band start off as a blues band?


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It's okay, most people think the band started out with Rumors (even forgetting that one of their most famous songs, Rhiannon, was on the album before Rumors). I don't know the history of other bands, though. My music Geekdom is pretty much around Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks.

There is a great 4 disc retrospective of Fleetwood Mac called The Chain. You can probably find it relatively cheap at some used music stores these days. Each disc is from a different era of their music with one whole disc devoted just to their early blues stuff. There's a song on there called "Man of the World" that Peter Green wrote just before leaving the band. It is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard in my life because in Mick's book he was talking about how horrible things were going for Peter and how the lyrics are really true to life as to how he was feeling. There's a part where he sings "I just wish I had never been born" that gives me chills every time I hear it.

whidding while I work;
widdling wood while I work.

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whidding while I work;
widdling wood while I work.

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You know how people yell stuff out during Rocky Horror, well... when I used to do it in Pittsburgh there's a part at the beginning of "Dammit Janet" where Brad is about to say something to Janet, but then he would pause in though, giving the audience enough time to yell out one of the callbacks.

So he would say "Hey Janet..." and the audience would yell "Sit on my face and wiggle".

Then, one time, just to be a smart ass, someone yelled instead "Sit on my porch and whittle".

[ :offtopic: ] ah yes. Every Friday @ mid-night @ The Princess (theatre).


Our tradition was bringing a loaf or two of white WonderBread that has been sparyed with water. At the start of the show those with ammo would pick the secret word and once somebody uttered it all hell would break loose.

ever try to get wet crappy white bread out of your ear?
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i always... and i do love to listen to music...it is impossible for me to finish a whole damn day without even tuning to a radio station and listen to any kind of music...but i prefer listening to glam rock songs...that's why my whole hard drive is full of Mr. Big songs, Skid Row, Guns N Roses, Metallica, Warrant, anything you can thing of...Bon Jovi, Firehouse, Van Halen, Aerosmith...all of them...lol, without music...my whole life would be boring...

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There's a song on there called "Man of the World" that Peter Green wrote just before leaving the band. It is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard in my life because in Mick's book he was talking about how horrible things were going for Peter and how the lyrics are really true to life as to how he was feeling. There's a part where he sings "I just wish I had never been born" that gives me chills every time I hear it.

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Here's the song. I was amazed they had it on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69BtArJq6SE