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Doobie Bothers
Enya
Supertramp
Talking Heads
Led Zepplin
ACDC
Or if I have a Movie playing, any Sci/Fi Fantasy does the Job.

Teek wrote:My music box (124 gigs and counting, give or take a few megs) or Pandora. I'd recommend checking that out if you haven't, it's pretty amazing, and I only need to divert attention every few hours to 'thumbs up' a new favorite, or 'thumbs down' something sour. It's great.

I too must plug Pandora. It has to be the greatest thing in music since the invention of the mp3. For those unfamiliar with it, it's a internet radio station that only plays music you want to hear (and doesn't have dj's, comercials, or other crap getting in the way of the music). You teach it what you like by starting off with an artist or a song you like (artists work better) and then you fine tune it by adding more artists/songs and by giving the songs it plays for you a thumbs up or thumbs down. It is fantastic. All the new music I've found in the last 3ish years has been from things I ran into on Pandora. My musical tastes are a bit out of the ordinary (see the list of Scandinavian symphonic metal bands in my post above) so its not like I run into anything I want to hear on normal radio stations.

For me I'll either just have iTunes going on random, or whatever happens to be on tv.. if there's something I actually want to watch, I put the paint down

Always one of three things:

1. Jazz
2. Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes
3. Beavis and Butthead

1 for relaxing, 2 and 3 for laughing

I do not turn on music myself, with only rare exceptions - painting is not one of them.

I generally hear only my cats

although sometimes the neighbors make a lot of noise.

RADIOHEAD
CIRCA SURVIVE
THE BEATLES
MUSE
THRICE
THE SHINS

I have TV in the background and look up occasionally.

2 and a half years ago when I did my slayer army in 2 weeks I watched Series 1-6 of Stargate on DVD at the same time...

Blue october
Matalica
ozzy
dark side of the moon
the fray
to name a few.....