Hello everybody.
How are you? I hope well
You! Yes, you, the artist, ROM hacker, or someone who does something else while listening to music, what have you been listening to?
My question is because… I’ve gotten tired of my old YouTube music playlist and listening to Lo-Fi Girl radio while I’m working.
So I’d like recommendations from the community! Your playlist, radio station, band, specific song, etc.
I’ll leave my playlist here too, in case anyone finds something to listen to.
Uh, rock music? Starset and the like-
But also video game music and other genres.
Here’s my playlist for Searching for Seiso.
It’s very weeby but motivational enough to PUSH through fatigue
Umamusume’s music is at the top. I already love it.
pure and unrelenting silence.
Well, I’m also someone else that mainly listens to rock music. Get ready because I’m going to give a massive text dump tho.
The way I hear songs is something that’s a bit interesting: usually I start off with light stuff, like with certain pop rock bands, indie music, and some of the lighter, calmer emo, alternative rock, punk rock and heavy metal stuff (things like STP’s “Interstate Love Song”, Metallica’s “Orion”, LP’s “Over Each Other”, BRMC’s “Weapon Of Choice”, The Bravery’s “Believe” and some Incubus, 311, Coldplay and U2 songs. Yeah, you could say yikes for those last two, but I’m of the opinion that you shouldn’t judge people too much for their music preferences.), and pretty much most of the 80’s music like the whole new wave genre and pop rock music.
But then as I go on and on about what I’m busy with, I tend to listen to more heavier, faster-paced, and agressive music. I go from listening The Killers’s “Smile Like You Meant It” to bands like My Chemical Romance, Pierce The Veil, Green Day, The Offspring, Iron Maiden, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Linkin Park’s more agressive side, and certain songs like Paramore “Mysery Business”, Sponge’s “Plowed”, STP’s “Crackerman”, 3 Doors Down “Kryptonite” TV on the Radio’s “Wolf Like Me”.
And then if I still am busy with what I’m doing, then I start to listen to more raw and heavier stuff, like Dead Kennedys, Metallica, Megadeth, Avenged Sevenfold, In Flames, Killswitch Engage, BFMV, Black Sabbath, Ministry, Ozzy Osbourne and Dio (may these two rest in peace and love). I recount sometimes, mainly when it was October, where I would hear even heavier stuff than that, like with most Extreme Metal acts, like Cradle of Filth, Emperor, and Between the Buried and Me.
Some stand out and more recent examples would be of songs that did appear in some games and I liked them enough to hear them more, like some NFSU songs (Story of the Year’s “And The Hero Will Drown”, The Crystal Method’s “Born Too Slow”), NFSU2 (Ministry’s “No W”, Mudvyane’s “Determined”, Unwritten Law’s “Celebration Song”, Killing Joke’s “The Death And Resurrection Show”, Cirrus’ “Back On a Mission”), and other NFS games, alongside some of the Tony Hawk games. Any more and this post would become even longer than it already is.
Anyways, here’s a playlist I did several years ago of some songs that fit for when you’re playing a racing game. It’s a bit outdated tho due to me not updating it for a long time ago.
I apologize for the big comment btw. I’m a very entusiathic music person.
also elevator music.
touhou clock
90% video game music but occasionally something non-videogame grabs me.
This is my personal favorite playlist, it’s pretty varied but largely soft rock / love songs from the 1980s and earlier.
That aside, when I’m hacking specifically, I loop Thracia phase from FE4. Helps me get in the headspace of my villain when plotting story beats.
Aside from the music I grew up with on the radio, I’ve been listening to almost anything from the Xenoblade Chronicles series OST. 
I have a stupidly large YouTube playlist… that I only sometimes listen to nowadays, and is hell to maintain (there’s a ton of missing songs that I just haven’t bothered replacing).
I also have an insane of music downloaded on my PC, so sometimes I’ll just boot up Groove (or more recently, Musicbee) and put the whole thing on shuffle.
I listen to a little of everything, but I usually lean towards videogame OSTs (Xenoblade Chronicles, FE Echoes, TWEWY, F-Zero X + GX, Etrian Odyssey 1-3 to name a few), arrangements/remixes (GaMetal, Hellion Sounds/SSH, Akatsuki Records, Halozy, etc), anime OSTs (especially from Yoko Kanno, Hiroyuki Sawano, Shiro Sagisu, and Yuki Kajiura), and the occasional “normal person” song (stuff from Linkin Park, Dio, Daft Punk, or a bunch of one-offs from different bands).
Idk why the yt playlist links only kick over to the first video in the playlist rip
But in all seriousness, a depends on the mood and/or what I’m doing (highly depends on how focused I need to be). Sometimes game OSTs, sometimes metal of various types, sometimes silence. Mainly been in the mood for Unleash the Archers lately. Nerdy power metal/melodic death with female vocal lead. Mostly clean vocals too.
Audiobooks are great, listen to podcasts sometimes too.
My playlist is kinda wacky tbh. I’ve got anything from 70s rock to sea shanties to breakcore to a Kasane Teto cover of Hardware Store by Weird Al Yankovic. A lot of people say “I listen to a little bit of everything”, but I really do.
Personally though my top 5 artists atm (in no particular order) are:
i wanna hear her sing more linkin park
I have a whole bunch of totally legally downloaded mp3’s from the 2000s to 2010s on my laptop that i use for work streams and such. I’d love to put all that into a yt playlist to share with you all but that’s gonna take too much work lol
just imagine 90s kid first discovers anime and vocaloid and you’ve got my playlist
Cultivated for a blend of coherency, variety and just sheer Heft. This is actually missing a lot of my favourite songs from artists featured here, because Spotify’s … unique idea of what ‘shuffling’ should mean means that it tends to overplay them because I already listen to them at other times.
I usually don’t listen to music while I work on projects and stuff, because it distracts me and I end up getting nothing done, even if it’s something I’ve heard a million times before. But if you’re just looking for music recommendations, here’s a tier list of the albums I’ve listened to so far:
Wait are Coldplay and u2 bad now? Did they like do something or is it just their music went to crap in the last 15 years?
Anyways, what I listen to depends on the game I’m working on.
When helping out with steel over blood I was listening to a lot of Kylie minogue- kiss me once, Aphrodite, body language, disco.
when making my FFTA hack I listened to galdive and Sophie-Ellis-Bextor.
with my current project it’s a lot of Bruno mars, Post Malone, and bring me the horizon vibes. I’ve also been hitting shuffle on my playlist which has a bunch of obscure foreign pop that no one has ever heard.
Most consistent artist I’ve listened to these last 5 years has been Zara Larson. She’s topped my Spotify rewind more than once.
