I'm picky about my post-rock, but I like Jesu a lot, Neurosis occasionally, and Pelican OK. Most of it is just too vague and meandering...but records that lack lyrics (or identifiable ones, anyway) are best for my productivity.
Exactly. 'Post' implies it ended at some point. And that's something no one will ever agree on the when or if it has ever really died in the first place.
I've been listening to Timbaland's "Give it to me" and "The way I are" for about 2 weeks straight. Normally, Autechre, Tool, Boards of Canada, AphexTwin, Radiohead, and NIN populate my playlists.
The entire soundtrack to The Fountain is pure excellence. The Last Man is my favorite track off that album, after Death is the Road to Awe. Very haunting and beautiful.
Actually, I find talk of music coming up a lot in programming circles. People need to focus. Music helps them do that. Headphones as an isolation & concentration device are key to my development setup.
Right now I've been working through a compilation of my all-time favorite songs. There are a few thousand songs on it. Here's a few:
10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
A. Krauss & Union Station - Wild Bill Jones<br />
Afro Celt Sound System - Release<br />
Alanis Morissette - Excuses<br />
Alpinestars - Hotel Parallel<br />
Ani DiFranco - Fierce Flawless<br />
Animaniacs - The Planets<br />
Autamata - Jellyman<br />
Banana splits (Tra la la song) (live) - Dickies - Dickie<br />
Beck & Emmylou Harris - Sin City<br />
Billie Holiday - Ain`t Nobody`s Business If I Do<br />
Billy Joe and the Checkmates - Percolator<br />
Bloodhound Gang - A Lap Dance Is So Much Better if the Stripper is Crying<br />
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Sojourn Of Arjuna<br />
C. t. King & T. Linden - John Law Burned Down The Liquo<br />
Calexico - El Picador<br />
carbon leaf - let your troubles roll by<br />
Carbon Leaf - On Any Given Day<br />
'Suede' - Nina Simone - Feeling Good<br />
Chet Atkins - Peanut Vendor<br />
Chet Atkins - Wheels<br />
Cocteau Twins - Alice<br />
The Cowboy Junkies - Ooh Las Vegas<br />
Crash Test Dummies - Superman's Song<br />
Cyril Pahinui - Panini Pua Kea<br />
Dean Martin - CHA CHA CHA D'AMORE-DINO<br />
The Dickies - Toxic Avenger<br />
Franz Ferdinand - Matinee<br />
Friends of Dean Martinez - All the Pretty Horses<br />
G. Welch & D. Rawlings - I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll Music<br />
Gillian Welch - Hickory Wind<br />
Havalinas - losing you<br />
Hellecasters - hall of the mountain king.mp3<br />
Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk<br />
Howlin' Wolf - Three Hundred Pounds of Joy<br />
Howlin' Wolf - Built For Comfort<br />
J.J. Jackson & The Jackaels - Oo-Ma-Liddi<br />
Jai Uttal - Lake Of Exploits<br />
Jimmie Vaughan - Dengue Woman Blues<br />
Jon Wayne - Texas Funeral<br />
The Kinks - Apeman<br />
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat<br />
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World<br />
Man... or Astro-Man? - A Mouthful of Exhaust<br />
Momo Wandel Soumah - Felenko Yefe<br />
The Mrs Ackroyd Band - Dachshunds With Erections Can't Climb Stairs<br />
Neko Case - Things That Scare Me<br />
Nick Lowe - Mary Provost<br />
Old 97s - Won`t Be Home<br />
The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso<br />
Paris Combo - Senor<br />
Patsy Cline - Crazy<br />
paul simon - graceland<br />
Phil Phillips - The Evil Dope<br />
Placebo - Running Up That Hill<br />
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York<br />
Princess Ramona - Then I Start To Yodel<br />
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody<br />
Rezillos - Glad All Over<br />
Rezillos - (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures<br />
Richard Thompson - Beeswing<br />
Richard Thompson - Walking The Long Miles Home<br />
Roger Miller - King of the Road<br />
Sarah McLachlan - World on Fire<br />
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury<br />
Southern Culture On The Skids - Voodoo Cadillac<br />
Southern Culture On The Skids - Camel Walk<br />
Southern Culture On The Skids - Too Much Pork For Just One Fork<br />
Stereo Instrumental Oldies - bob moore - mexico.mp3<br />
Stereo Instrumental Oldies - string-a-longs - wheels<br />
Throwing Muses - Golden Thing<br />
tom waits - big time - 10 - big black mariah<br />
Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant<br />
Buena Vista Social Club<br />
John Trubee - a blind man's penis<br />
Venus Hum - Soul Sloshing<br />
QUINCY JONES - SOUL BOSSA NOVA<br />
Yma Sumac - Wimoweh<br />
yma sumac_taki rari.mp3<br />
zarah leander - wunderbar<br />
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane pour moi<br />
Germfree adolescents - X-Ray Spex<br />
Post-rock is nearly ideal coding music.