Music to work to

I don't really have anything I can post art-wise today, so I thought this week's Twitter question should be "What do you listen to while you work?" This doesn't necessarily mean your favorite music, because that might be dance music and you can't exactly listen to that while you try to work. Unless you're a dancer. In which case I don't know what to make of you. The thing is, my favorite music and my work music tend to overlap pretty well just because that's where my tastes fall.

A lot of folks replied with movie scores, podcasts, and instrumental music, just about anything so long as it's not overly distracting. I certainly agree with that sentiment, and listen to a lot of all of the above. I just recently got into podcasts (meaning I just found out they are free) and will use those for work, walking the dog, or doing the dishes. The ones I really dig are Word Balloon, Tall Tale Radio, Sidebar, iFanboy, Tom vs. the Flash, and War Rocket Ajax (for all you comic folk); a lot of the NPR stuff since I never seem to be around when it's on, like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Piano Jazz w/ Marian McPartland, and Thistlepod. So on the slim chance you haven't heard of one of those go give it a listen.

I've mentioned before that I'm a bit of a jazz nut. I originally went to school for music before switching over to the art degree, but I've still got the jazz bug. I figured rather than rattle off a bunch of stuff, I put together an image of 25 albums I think everybody should give at least one listen to. I also did this partially because jazz albums had some of the coolest freaking cover designs then. The image should be big enough to where you can read the titles clearly.I'm not trying to sell you on jazz, it's certainly not for everyone, just like any other art form. I just feel that most if not all of these albums are an important part of music history, besides being some of my favorites. Admittedly, there are a lot of trumpeters on there because that's what I play and it's what I grew up on. Sometime in high school I went on a wave of picking up every Miles Davis album I could find, even the later stranger stuff.

That's just the stuff I like and can also work to, though. You put any lyrics in there and I'm gone. I love Zeppelin and Zappa, but can't work to it at all. That's driving music.

Thanks for putting up with me while I rattle on today, I promise there's drawings coming. In the meanwhile, what kind of stuff do you like to work to?