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I like lyrics when I'm not coding. Aesop Rock's poetry (it almost can't be called rap but def hip hop) is mind bending, and I love him for it.
Otherwise while I'm coding I need quiet or something instrumental. Beats I can handle, but usually I'll listen to Tobacco/Black Moth Super Rainbow, or El-P and his dad Harry Keys, or otherwise something abstract like that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Thanks. I'll check these out.
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InstruMENTAL Jazz aka smoothJazz
examples are:
fattburger, Spyro gyra, Ronny Jordan, Euge Groove, Kim Waters,Joyce Cooling, Craig Chaquico, Peter White, Larry Carlton, 3rd Force,acoustic alchemy,four play,four80East, Paul Hardcastle, The Rippingtons, Konstantin Klashtorni, Vincent Ingala and many more.
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I do love jazz. We used to play it in our coffee shop and back in the day I had a favorite local jazz band I'd go listen to at the Pig & Whistle in Ft. Worth.
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The sound of my hoarse breathing from screaming at the computer?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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There are lots of great suggestion throughout this thread ... 
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The first mental image I received from your message was :
a horse screaming at a computer.
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The sound of my hoarse breathing from screaming at the computer IT?
Fixed that for you. Corporate IT has turned on things for the corporate firewall that causes 99.9% of the worlds websites to fail to load. CP's servers seem to have their #$%%^ together. I suspect this is why I cannot obtain a network license key to build some code my boss needs....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Well now that the #$%#^%^ dogs have shut up (they aren't my dogs, but somehow I have to walk and feed them) I finally put on my QC15s and am listening to the beach boys. Came across some other folders full of music from bad times, so that got parked elsewhere.
If I really get into a deep spot, then it's be a soundtrack - Hunt for Red October is excellent.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I enjoy soundtracks too, but I usually listen to a re-mixed version like what I find on Ambient Worlds yt channel. I especially enjoy the ones with seaside sounds added - Pirates of the Caribbean and HP Shell Cottage.
I'll look for the Red October - there might be some ocean noises in that ...
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Jethro Tull - A Song For Jeffrey
(1969)
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There is absolutely nothing like Jethro Tull. Very nice!
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During work, I prefer melodic electronic music with no substantial lyrics.
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Internet radio. I have two stations I've listened to for years: Delicious Agony Progressive Rock Radio and Morow.com.
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What do you use to access them?
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On my Windows 10 laptop I use my own VB net player based on VLC. On my Android devices I use a very basic URL based player called 'CustomRadioPlayer RadioStream App'. It's very, very simple but works!
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Don't you just love this community where "I use my own ..." isn't unusual, but so, so satisfying? 
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Even more so when I'm only a 71 year old 'hobbyist' programmer swiming with the big fish!
I love programming and I'm always trying to write 'difficult' (to me) programs. It keeps the brain healthy (I hope!).
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Usually prefer silence but, paradoxically, when I need a music break, it's often something like Jesus and Mary Chain or Pixies or Rammstein or something equally raucous.
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Only the hot and the cold. No lukewarm for you. 
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Occasionally I'll listen to recommendations from a friend who has a show on an internet "radio station", so the last couple of days have been Kid Kapichi, a new one on me. They can be quite raucous ...
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A lot, from electronic dance music to black and death metal to classical to soundtracks.
I was just listening to some random electro swing, but I've switched it for Vexed, a metalcore band
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I love variety. I'm learning to enjoy genres that I've never liked before by trying different artists.
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What usually helps is listening to some artists that are slightly different from what you're used to.
If you listen to classical music and go straight to the blackest of black metal you'll probably think metal sucks.
If you start listening to Nightwish first, for example, you'll probably don't find it half bad and your tastes start to shift.
And from Nightwish you can move to harder metal bands.
There are always bands who mix two or more genres that you'd probably like if you listen to either one genre and can get you accustomed to the other.
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Great advise! Thanks
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