When I was studying for my GCSEs, I remember hearing someone on the local radio station discussing the merits of listening to music during revision sessions. I needed no further reason to whack up the volume on OK Computer and The Fat Of The Land (have you guessed the year yet?), and since then I've always played music while I worked.
It's fine when you get to choose the tunes yourself, but what if you're one of many in a workspace? The factory I worked at in school holidays would never budge from the local dance music station, and subsequent offices have kept strictly to one channel, usually the one with five ever-repeating tunes.
Music can be heaven or hell when you're working, so what would you prefer? Take part in my fun poll below and let's see if we can get some serious data for you to take to your boss at the next quarterly review:
Get voting!
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Not playing with BlipFM anymore. They were nice this morning, and surprised me by deciding that I'd want to listen to The Cure. They were right too, sneaky little blighters.
But then they ruined it by waking my out of my afternoon daze with Lily Allen's cover of Heart of Glass.
Blip and I aren't friends anymore.
I actually don't often listen to music when I work. I do when I'm doing mundane stuff (html today) but not if I'm writing. I end up writings words of songs in the middle of blog posts...
Hi Siany! No, blip.fm didn't get any love from the poll either. I tried it for a while but got frustrated when all the songs I wanted to recommend to others weren't on there.
Stuart - that sounds like a happy medium to be honest. Your colleagues might be more appreciative if they know an ex-colleague of mine used to play actual rave music, really loud. Ecky, ecky!