Easy listening...

Sometimes I listen to basketball games (Sacramento Kings), although it has been a little more painful than usual this year. Other times it is on the local alternative rock station.

Matt’s pod casts in my iPod also work.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Hey, I live outside Philly with the Sixers and the Flyers… don’t tell me about painful… lol.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

I usually have on the “new oldies” station which is 70s-80’s rock and roll. Of course I wear hearing protection and the shop tools can be loud at times, so I do not always hear it. But, it is nice to have some good music in the background for the times between the noise. It is strange, because I usually like quiet when I am working on the computer now a days. I my corporate life, many times I wore headphones and listened to a CD on my PC while working.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

C & W

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I used to think there was only two types of music..Country and Western. Now days having three great grown kids with a wide variety of music tastes I listen to everything from oldies to country to new age..from Jimmy Buffet to Nora Jones, Limbaugh to O’Reilly and everything in between.

-- Splinters - Living and Loving life in the Rockies - http://www.splinterswoodworks.com/ - http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5220040

I’m with Karson Country & Western!!!!

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Well Jazz is also good.

But lets not have Marching Music in the shop.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I am all for a variety of music, but not Rap.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Classic Rock, Classic Country Rock ( Eagles, Poco, Pure Prairie league etc.) and sometimes the new country if I am in the mood)

Corey

-- http://woodshop51503.tripod.com/index.html

New Country. I can’t quite handle the Twang from the old Country & Western :-)

-- Making sawdust is what I do best

I like having the radio going, just for some ambiance and usually to just “ignore”. I used to hate it on while at the computer (designing, reading or writing – to distracting), but if it helps drown out the background “white noise and chatter” then I’m good.

Working with Dad these past months, I really notice the quiet of my shop, so I got a belt clip speaker for my ipod… can hear exactly what I like… and it follows me around (without any dangerous cords)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I got 12” speakers hung from 12’ up so that I can overpower the noisy tools. But I also ignore the music usually.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

<<< is glad his house isn’t right next to Karson’s workshop. lordy.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

silence… please… sh!!!
(my brain has too much to think about without being distracted by music playing in the background). I love to think.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

One day I’ll be playing the blues and the next I might bring up a swing from the 40’s. Love my bluegrass as much as I love to rock and roll. If I start getting short tempered I’ll put on some comedy. I enjoy my XM radio…and I hate commercials…even when I sound like one!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

I usually listen to Modern Rock or Alternative. I just bought a radio to go with my Ryobi One+ tools. It uses the cordless battery to run off of, but that usually means I am short one battery.

-- Rob McCune

My taste in music is wide ranging…from classical to rock to country to older jazz. I recently had cable run into to the shop so I can catch my saturday morning fix of what little woodworking shows are available on television. My XM radio carries the majority of the time though. I also like listening to the old time radio shows…as long as I am not working with anything too sharp. I would have to say that the majority of the music I do listen to the most is evenly split between classic rock and country.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

10 Gig ipod on Shuffle. But the real motivator is caffiene.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

—-rock and roll….blues….bluegrass….jazz….and then there’s always time for classical, JUST GIVE IT TO ME LOUD and DON”T TOUCH THE VOLUME!!! Half the the time I don’t hear anything anyway once I get in ‘the process’....
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Go Frank! Nice to see you back again!

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

I built a box for a car stereo that I had laying around, but it has no antenna so I just use the CD player. The only CD I have in the shop is Waylon Jennings. Who can forget the classic “Mamas dont let your babies grow up to be Lumberjocks”?

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

I was beginning to feel like the odd man out musical tastes wise with my rock, (alt, classic, etc…) and just about anything with roots in the “british invation”

to quote from the movie The Blues Brothers -

“What kind of music do you play here?”
“Oh, we play both kinds. Country AND Western.”

:)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I guess I’m one of the few that can listen to the talk stuff. I listen to NPR or more specifically Minnesota Public Radio which has several of their own programs as well as nationally aired shows. When that is not to my liking I jump over to their new music station. It’s one of the few stations left that has the broadcast range they have but is not on some goofy 4 hour rotation. Aside from that, I’m like Giz. I let the iPod do the dj work

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

How about Obi’s favorite Zepplin tune “Stairway to Hickory”? It’s a classic.

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

LOL. I remember they wouldn’t let them play that in Wayne’s World (the movie) but we used to close out all the Jr. High School dances with that classic!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I go for my kind of “groove” music, myself… Grateful Dead, Phish, SCI, maybe some Bella Fleck (absolute best banjo picker in the world, in my opinion!). It puts me in the creative mood, which is just what I want when I’m in the shop.

And its nice to play stuff I know by heart; that way I’m not at all concentrating on the words or the music – I just let it flow through me.

-- Ethan, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

Bella Fleck is amazing. I’ve not listened to anything of his in a long time. I shall have to do a little shopping at the iTunes store.

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

“Sawdust in the Wind”, “Back in Black (walnut)”, or my favorite “Me and my Obi McGee”.

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

How about some Jim Croce, “If I could keep pine in a bottle”.
Or maybe some Franky Valli, “Che-erry, Cherry baby”.
Perhaps the Blue Oyster Cult, “Don’t fear the router”.
Wasn’t it Elton John’s birthday recently? Remember “Tiny sander”?
Waylong is still my favorite, “Only daddy that’ll work with pine”, “Rainy day woodshop”, “Good hearted woman, in love with a woodworking man”.
This is getting out of hand, isn’t it? LOL

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

Not bad JP, a list of for LJtunes, one of the next things for the site.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

I’ll try one, that old Johnny Cash favorite. “Strike the line”.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

hehehe keep them coming!!!
“oh Mr. Sanderman…”

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Now we’re talkin’! Nice ones Wayne and Debbie!

“Paradise by the Woodshop Lights”
“Another one makes some Dust”

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

”TREE blind mice… see how they run…”

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

My radio turns on with the lights. I’m like Caliper MN public Radio, but when I want music, I usually tune to a local public radio KAXE. They play a wide variety of music you don’t always hear on other stations. They live stream on, www.kaxe.org

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Nice JP,,, that’s another string in the making… perhaps a top ten list on a shirt too? (oh no!, shirts on the brain….

now back to the classics:

Mott the Hoople; Alder Young Dudes
The Beatles; Day Stripper
Pink Floyd; Great Jig in the Sky

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Looking for lumber in all the wrong places…...

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Who can forget Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Heart”. He played that at WOODSTOCK didn’t he? “purple heart it’s in my brain…put a spell on me.”

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Oh, this is going to get fun!

Johnny B Wood,
and the inappropriate Beatles classic; I saw her (standing there).

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Gettin’ Jiggy .

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

lol.

How much is that bandsaw in the window?

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

Jeff – that one is hilarious. Laughed out loud when I read it.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

‘Free Wood’ —by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

The Doors, “Grinders on the Storm”

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

JP just keeps rollin’ them out…. Nice.

Thanks, Debbie!

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

I’m a saw man…..

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

It’s gettin bad, Jeff. Every song I hear on the radio becomes a target.

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

This is fun, and I think a little more challenging than the “you know you’re a lumberjock if”... these you can’t force, they just have to come to you.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

There is a time. Turn… Turn… Turn…

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

You almost had it Scott with the Beatles “I saw her SANDING there!

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

I’m looking back up at my initial blog entry then reading down the posts to try and figure out how we got to this. JP, this is all your fault!

I have a feeling everyone has turned the music off in their shops while they work so that they can concentrate… on coming up with new titles! LOL.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

I need the music on to find my parodies…

Yes Dennis, that’s it!... and much less Gorey, (as in Edward)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

I’ll bet people get less work done now because they are actively listening to the lyrics of the music :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

You may be right… but not in my case. Inspirations hit when they hit… my muse may be scattered and prolific… but she cannot be forced. She likes the car, shower… anyplace without pen and paper, really.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

OK, I am gonna break the mold… I love 80’s dance music and new stuff (Synthpop) from Mesh, Iris, De/Vision, Rename, Dignity of Labor, Wolfshiem, Virtual Server, Adom9, Merge etc… I doubt a single one of you have ever listened to this stuff but it is Very upbeat and really keeps me going.

Drew

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

I don’t consider shop time as work…lol It’s therapy….

-- Jimmy

Chip,

I’m with you. Thread hijacking at its best…

-- Ethan, http://greystonegreen.blogspot.com/

one of our members uses a title for our list: johnny be wood.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Sorry, Chip. I didn’t mean to be a hijacker. I started another thread to try to salvage what’s left of this one. LOL

-- JP, Shelbyville, KY

Anything that I can turn up loud. I do have 8 speakers and 500 watts of power in the shop stereo system! Anything but rap, I don’t know who could listen to that junk.

-- What would Marc do?

I hated rap til I found the beat… then I figured I could listen to it.

Anything but opera. Fat woman sounds like she got a nipple caught in a ringer.

Did I really say that or was i just thinking out loud?

-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/

LOL, Obi!

...dust keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the shop vac…

Sorry, Chip. I’ll jump over to JP’s new thread but I couldn’t resist. It came to me right then.

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

I’m not sure where this thread is at the moment, but I’m going back to the original question.

I listen to classical music in my shop, when I don’t have my power tools on. When I do have them on, I also wear my ear protection, so can’t hear anything.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/