Music at work

[Flair Underwood]

Do you listen to music at work?  If so - what?  I need some new inspiration! 

[titania]

I listen to Songza... you can pick playlists based on activities you are doing or moods! I also am an avid podcast listener... it makes the day go by faster. My favorites are SnapJudgement, This American Life, and RadioLab.

[Flair Underwood]

Oct 13, 2015 8:13:20 GMT -5 titania said:

I listen to Songza... you can pick playlists based on activities you are doing or moods! I also am an avid podcast listener... it makes the day go by faster. My favorites are SnapJudgement, This American Life, and RadioLab.

I LOVE RadioLab.... I actually found "Rhino Hunter" to be pretty fascinating.  My husband listens to This American Life a lot and keeps telling me I need to.

I have really been adoring "Death, Sex & Money" and StoryCorps.  Did you listen to Invisibilia?  I just discovered Hidden Brain which is pretty good!  I do a lot of writing for work so I can't listen to podcasts and type!  Although, i've never heard of Songza.... I'll look into it!

[titania]

Flair Underwood, the Rhino Hunter episode was fascinating! I had no idea that any of that went on. I did listen to Invisibilia! I can't wait for it to come back. I have heard StoryCorps is good, so I will have to check that out. I do a lot of numbers for work, so podcasts keep my mind from wandering.

Songza is great... I use it for party playlists as well.

[Andrea]

titania, Flair Underwood, you guys covered pretty much all of my favorite podcasts. NPR ftw!

I also listen to Girl on Guy, it is by Aisha Tyler. I love it.


As for music, I have been listening to Ryan Adams' cover of 1989 on repeat.

[peanutbutterandkitty]

Flair Underwood, titania, Andrea, I'm glad to know there are some fellow podcast listeners here! Love all the one's you mentioned. I also really love all the shows coming out of Gimlet Media (Start Up, Reply All, Mystery Show). Although they're all on hiatus at the moment.

I have to write at my job, so I can't listen to anything with lyrics. Spotify has curated playlists based on mood, and I listen to the ones in the "Focus" category, mostly one called "Deep Focus." If I really can't focus, I listen to the rain. Rainymood.com. No kidding.

[Flair Underwood]

Oct 13, 2015 9:24:05 GMT -5 peanutbutterandkitty said:

Flair Underwood, titania, Andrea, I'm glad to know there are some fellow podcast listeners here! Love all the one's you mentioned. I also really love all the shows coming out of Gimlet Media (Start Up, Reply All, Mystery Show). Although they're all on hiatus at the moment.

I have to write at my job, so I can't listen to anything with lyrics. Spotify has curated playlists based on mood, and I listen to the ones in the "Focus" category, mostly one called "Deep Focus." If I really can't focus, I listen to the rain. Rainymood.com. No kidding.

I forgot about Mystery Show since its on break.... Starlee kind of drives me crazy but I loved the belt buckle episode! 

[Andrea]

Have you guys heard of Lore? I just discovered it. It goes into the history of folklore. It's pretty interesting.

[sandandsea]

Oct 13, 2015 8:27:14 GMT -5 Flair Underwood said:

Oct 13, 2015 8:13:20 GMT -5 titania said:

I listen to Songza... you can pick playlists based on activities you are doing or moods! I also am an avid podcast listener... it makes the day go by faster. My favorites are SnapJudgement, This American Life, and RadioLab.

I LOVE RadioLab.... I actually found "Rhino Hunter" to be pretty fascinating.  My husband listens to This American Life a lot and keeps telling me I need to.

I have really been adoring "Death, Sex & Money" and StoryCorps.  Did you listen to Invisibilia?  I just discovered Hidden Brain which is pretty good!  I do a lot of writing for work so I can't listen to podcasts and type!  Although, i've never heard of Songza.... I'll look into it!

We totally just listened to the Rhino Hunter one a few weeks ago.  Very interesting!  I like This American Life and Serial too.  But I can't do those while at work because they're too distracting.  For work I usually just listen to classical or Hawaiian songs.

[titania]

Oct 13, 2015 10:05:54 GMT -5 Andrea said:

Have you guys heard of Lore? I just discovered it. It goes into the history of folklore. It's pretty interesting.

I have not heard of that, but it sounds amazing!  I love that stuff!  Thanks for the recommendation!

[Flair Underwood]

Oct 13, 2015 10:27:52 GMT -5 titania said:

Oct 13, 2015 10:05:54 GMT -5 Andrea said:

Have you guys heard of Lore? I just discovered it. It goes into the history of folklore. It's pretty interesting.

I have not heard of that, but it sounds amazing!  I love that stuff!  Thanks for the recommendation!

I listened to one episode of Lore... something about "Black Stockings" i think.  I forgot about it since I thought the guy's voice was a little difficult to listen to. 

If you're done with Serial - Undisclosed is an awesome indepth look into the stuff Serial missed. 

[soultrane]

I'm all about my Amazon playlist while I work. I just put it on shuffle and let it go through the day.

[Flair Underwood]

Oct 13, 2015 13:06:45 GMT -5 soultrane said:

I'm all about my Amazon playlist while I work. I just put it on shuffle and let it go through the day.

What?!  I didn't know amazon had a playlist thing.

[soultrane]

Oct 13, 2015 14:14:54 GMT -5 Flair Underwood said:

Oct 13, 2015 13:06:45 GMT -5 soultrane said:

I'm all about my Amazon playlist while I work. I just put it on shuffle and let it go through the day.

What?!  I didn't know amazon had a playlist thing.

Yes! With Prime, you can download a ton of stuff for free and stream it. You can obviously also buy stuff too and any physical albums that you buy from Amazon are automatically added to your playlist. Under Your Account, go to Your Music Library and get sucked in. 

The only downside is that sometimes songs are pulled from rotation so they're not guaranteed to always be there. I've got around a thousand songs on my playlist currently though so it's not a huge deal if a few go missing. 

[Flair Underwood]

Hahaha, this is great! I do have Prime, so this is going to be my newest time suck. This is great... thanks!!!

[manybellsdown]

Oct 13, 2015 14:45:36 GMT -5 soultrane said:

Oct 13, 2015 14:14:54 GMT -5 Flair Underwood said:

What?!  I didn't know amazon had a playlist thing.

Yes! With Prime, you can download a ton of stuff for free and stream it. You can obviously also buy stuff too and any physical albums that you buy from Amazon are automatically added to your playlist. Under Your Account, go to Your Music Library and get sucked in. 

The only downside is that sometimes songs are pulled from rotation so they're not guaranteed to always be there. I've got around a thousand songs on my playlist currently though so it's not a huge deal if a few go missing. 

Who knew! Awesome info, thanks.