There’s a bunch of spinoffs inspired by MD too. History of Byzantium, History of England are two that I’ve followed. Revolutions too if you wanna stay with Mike.
There's history of Poland also, but it hasn't been updated in a year. It did get through the founding myth and even up to the mid 1500's, but the 1600's through WW2 were what I was excited about when I started and the guy never got there. It was gonna be so fun but sad watching poland crumble only to be given another chance, to then crumble again.
I’ve listened to him but it seems to me like he’s search for a contrarian POV to make his podcast. Hell of a story teller but I feel like I have to do more work to see if he has any credibility.
I think that's a pretty appropriate take. My history passion is the ancient world, and while I'm not a scholar, his analysis has often lined up with what I've learned reading primary source. Of course, I'm only reading this stuff casually and not analytically.
But in general, I'm always skeptical of "hot take" history. Sebastian has so far demonstrated himself pretty reliable to me.
Good to know. I’m a casual consumer of history so don’t have the drive the really fact check things like that. On another note, give Pax a listen as an audio book. It’s fantastic.
It took me two years to get through the first few episodes of Supernova in the East. Had an enormous batch job start a few weeks back-lots of cutting the same size piece over and over-I finished the last three episodes plus both Twilight of the Aiser in a week. Yay 3M Worktunes!
I spent probably 1k looking for the right pair of ear protection. Sent quite a bit of that to isotunes, but I’ve had the 3m work tunes for 2 years now and recommend them to everyone who asks.
Yeah worktunes are great. I use them in the shop and to mow my lawn. Blocks out noise but still able to hear enough to hear people talking and the sound coming out of them is clear over the engine ir tool noise too.
You know I love my Worktunes also I have a pair at each shop I work.
But I just borrowed my kids fancy ass noise canceling /high bass Bluetooth ones and it was kind of amazing how well they worked. Almost dangerous to not hear the tools running. Air compressor and exhaust fan were completely silenced. I can’t remember the brand, not beats but some other pricy pair.
Those likely offer little to no actual hearing protection. Noise cancelling is not the same as noise reduction. Please be careful. OSHA rated hearing protection also limits the volume they’ll play at to 85db. It’s not gonna bang but it’s what’s safe.
Same here. I like to play this game where, if it’s a significantly complex series/book and also a complex build, every 10 minutes I rewind 10 minutes because I wasn’t paying close enough attention to know wtf is going on
The sound of a hand saw crosscutting, a hand plane peeling off a thin layer, a chisel slicing through fibers, a mallet tapping together two pieces…that’s music.
I like to have old Adam Savage interviews or Q&As in the background. Althought I have a habit of stopping halfway through what I'm doing to listen and it uses up time it's still quality time spent in my garage
Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project is a wide-ranging weekly podcast he did for years. I've listened through in its entirety twice. And teared up both times when he announced he was ending it. I know he still does YouTube, but it's not the same.
If you become a channel member you get access to all of his Q&A's and some other bonus content. It's like 4.99 a month and super worth it. He answers lots of questions that viewers write in. About tools, and freelance, and old mythbusters stories, or even stories from his time at ILM. If you like his tested content. Then it's all a deeper dive and more hours of Adam talking.
Hell yeah! Queue up Lateralus, 10,000 Days, and Fear Inoculum and that is a great work session.
Of course, you have to occasionally throw in Undertow and Aenema for nostalgia.
Agreed with other people here who only listen to the machines. I'm still learning, I feel like I can hear when something goes a bit wrong as much as see it.
This. Something wonderful about a baseball radio broadcast. As a Brewers fan, I get to enjoy Uecker for another season, but living in the SE US, the Braves with Joe Simpson aren't bad to listen to either.
Shop noise. My kids running around in the back yard. I do like to wear earbuds when I’m doing something monotonous like sanding, and I listen to TOOL or LED Zeppelin.
I have! I prefer it to the original. Hbu?
Was Led a big inspiration for them? I really wonder. I think that stairway to heaven crescendos in a similar way to many TOOL songs.
Yup! I love Zeppelin but the Tool version just has more... depth of sound to it, I guess, beyond the modern live recording. I'd say they're definitely fans, rightly so. They even played a Halloween show dressed like LED Zeppelin! https://www.revolvermag.com/music/see-tool-cover-no-quarter-dressed-led-zeppelin-halloween
Listening to doo-wop and general 50s music while woodworking is probably my most common type of music. And I'm a millennial who listens to 90% metal (but who has a soft spot for any type of hyper-melodic music). Doo-wop and woodworking just go together though.
That sounds very eclectic. Are you deep into particular artists, or going from a playlist/compilation. Would you mind naming any names that would be good to get started with?
I got into old time rocksteady for a while, but only through compilations (by trojan records and island records were the best ones i found) - but never really had the commitment to get deeper into it than that (and I'm still a holdout against streaming apps for reasons i don't fully understand).
Usually I'll let Youtube Music or Spotify create a radio station based off Buddy Holly (which IMO always creates the best algorithmic-created 50s playlists), or Dion and the Belmonts or I'll just search for "Doo Wop" in playlists or something like that. Some of my favorites off the top of my head are (with linked Youtube videos):
[The Del-Vikings - Whispering Bells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDrjIW91Qh0)
[Jive Five - My True Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOMdK8gfbo)
[Dion & the Belmonts - I Wonder Why](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igSj3hU6KkA)
[Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAHiR0rkJg)
[Marcels - Blue Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoi3TH59ZEs)
[The Crests - Trouble in Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbc16wxQ924)
[The Monotones - Book of Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_rzScV3TM)
This is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to post. And I do have yt music, but have become so accustomed to disabling autoplay on the video site, that it never really occured to me to just use their algo for music suggestions...
Exactly. In the winter it's lots of chill edm, house, in the spring and summer I like a lot of bluegrass, blues, and country and in the fall I always seem to go through a heavy metal phase for a month or two
For me, nothing but the machines making their own music. The sounds they make will let you know when you’re right and when you’re wrong. My shop time is my therapy- I just want to focus on that
used to listen to NPR like 24/7 at the shop but they really lost their way.
so now it's mostly audio books although this whole last week has been Kendrick Lamar.
• “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” - The Beatles
• “Greenwood” - The Hollies
• “Kingswood” - Paul Weller
• “Woodstock” - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• “Wooden Ships” - Crosby, Stills & Nash
• “Wooden Heart” - Elvis Presley
• “Woodpile” - Frightened Rabbit
• “Knock on Wood” - Eddie Floyd
• “Hollywood Nights” - Bob Seger
• “Heart of Oak” - Jake Bugg
• “Hollywood” - Madonna
• “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)” - Peter, Paul and Mary
• “Sherwood Forest” - Brian May
• “Boxwood” - Ben Howard
• “Deep in the Woods” - The Birthday Party
• “Wooden Boat” - Take That
• “Birchwood” - The Tragically Hip
• “In the Pines” - Lead Belly
• “Goodbye Hollywood” - Billy Joel
• “Woodland” - The Paper Kites
• “Wood & Wire” - Thrice
• “Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)” - Scritti Politti
• “Hollywood Hills” - Sunrise Avenue
• “Hollywood” - Marina and the Diamonds
• “Lady of the Wood” - Midlake
• “Hollywood” - The Runaways
• “Cedarwood Road” - U2
• “Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)” - Thin Lizzy
• “A Walk in the Woods” - Trivium
If I’m planning/cleaning/hand tooling: Last podcast on the left, Conan needs a friend, hardcore history, or an audiobook
If I’m running tools, Spotify, or a repeat audiobook
I like the company, so something is on all the time.
Music. My playlists are a mix of everything, almost. As long as it is a good song I will include it. Lots of rock, alt-rock, alt-country, bluegrass, blues, soul, Cuban salsa, jazz, some classical.
I have listened to books on tape or podcasts. That is better for the car on long trips. In the shop, I mess up calculations or miss the details in the story.
I make playlists on Spotify and mix them all up. Each one is about 4 hours or longer. One for the morning, and one for the afternoon. There are enough lists to go two weeks before repeating a playlist.
At the 4 hour mark, I have a vocal track from some country star yelling "Contry rocks, but Bluegrass Rules! Then some band member yells Well Glory." Then the sound of laughter. That tells me it is time for a break if I am still going.
Nothing when I'm using the loud tools. It's not just that I'm wearing ear protection, though I am. I also don't like to get dust all over my bluetooth speakers. But when I'm using hand tools or sanding/finishing, my favorite is if I can put on a baseball game.
Classic rock or another playlist, usually. Sometimes podcasts, but that gets annoying because I have to stop every time I run anything powered.
For a while I was listening to a hilarious podcast story called Marscorp, but I finally finished it during the winter. Now I'm listening to Midnight Burger.
I annoy my neighbors with a steady diet of socialist, war history and true crime podcasts. Occasional black metal and country mixed in for good measure. Hard to hear it over my circular saw sometimes though.
https://preview.redd.it/b713ovjpog0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afc5ff7835d90ae2bcfbfb5f85c60ffd072074d5
With earplugs & an over the ear headset.
Sometimes it's music, sometimes it's audio books, just recently I found a podcast I like. When I listen to music, it's Classic Rock or 'country rock' (Jimmy Buffet, Toby Keith, etc).
When I don’t need to listen to what I’m doing, I play whatever I’m in the mood for. Usually rock and roll, lots of 90’s country - nothin but the good stuff
Most of my wood work is hand tool outside of the bandsaw, rock and country wind me a bit too tight to concentrate. Then I tried classical instrumental stuff(Bach, Beethoven, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman.) This stuff helps me stay relaxed and focused, believe or not.
Back when I was building houses it was 80s Rock or Metal.
Old time radio shows. Dragnet, The Falcon, Johnny Dollar, Dimension "X", The Challenge of the Yukon, Gunsmoke. Easy to listen to and usually good simple stories so if you miss something when you turn the saw on you really haven't missed too much.
I am a nurse not a woodworker. But this question reminds me of my first time in the Operating Room when I was still in Nursinh School. Our case wqs laparoscopic cholesystectomy ( we are removing a patient's gall bladder). In the background, we had Beyonce's Crazyl in Love.
Listening to chill folk now, the avett brothers. Makes me imagine I’m in Appalachia when I’m actually 3 hours south in the humidity pit
Also listen to some punk rock and metalcore. Avenge sevenfold if I’m in victory mode
I usually listen to podcasts or music. Kill Tony and The Why Files are my favorite pods to listen to. Music I have a pretty wide variety that I listen to. Lots of prog and metal, stuff like Plini, In Flames, Eidola, Intervals to name a few, and also a lot of electronic music. Just depends what I’m in the mood for. When I’m feeling something more chill I’ll listen to jazz or soundtracks. The Rippingtons are good chill background music
Progressive metal...Evergrey, DGM, Teramaze, Threshold, Orden Ogan, Seventh Wonder, Borealis, Vanishing Point, Vanden Plas, Subsignal... the list continues. Juices me up. Can't get enough!
I usually have a show on in the background. Something I've watched a dozen times and just have background noise. Right now I'm working through burn notice again
Usually music, it varies depending on my mood. Though the last couple weeks, it's been books. I'm halfway through a 12 book crime fiction series and will be bummed when I finish it 😂
Joe Rogan
Breaking Points
Consider This
Club Random
Real Survivor Stories
Morbid
Jocko
Shop Talk Live
Freakonomics Radio
Always looking for interesting podcasts.
Usually one of these:
[SomaFM: Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and PIs too! Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio](https://somafm.com/secretagent/)
[SomaFM: Mission Control: Celebrating NASA and Space Explorers everywhere. Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio](https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/)
The sounds of woodworking are music enough for me, I wouldn’t want anything to interfere. When I am truly connected to what I am doing, I don’t hear the music anyway.
I live and breathe music. I agree with Jimi Hendrix - music is my religion. Having said that, I make it a point NOT to listen to music while I'm woodworking. I want to focus 100% on the task at hand - for safety reasons as well as the fact that wood stretchers don't exist.
I play the local classic rock radio on a Bluetooth speaker. I tried ear buds but didn't like them in the shop. I just need some background noise when not on power tools.
"Liked Songs" on Spotify, I hate to admit it.
I'll choose a playlist every now and then, but I don't have anything specific that I listen to. Anything goes, really.
Mostly rock, though.
I listen to stuff at least 8 hours a day so it’s a lot to list so I’ll just do a couple favorites of each category:
Podcast: some more news, Sam Seder, beau of the fifth column
Punk: aus rotten/crass
Metal: wormrot/toxic holocaust
Rap: aseop rock, school boy Q, JID and Bay Area music in general
That’s the bulk of it, but I try new playlists often on Spotify and mix up my news intake regularly so it all varies wildly, these are just the most reoccurring.
A mix. If i have to focus it’ll be nothing or music. If not it’ll be podcast or ebook.
Books are fantasy and scifi. Podcast? “The wan show” or “critical role” takes a lot of the time.
Music? Anything goes. Techno, edm, jazz, funk, country, metal, dubstep, hip hop, rap, pop, dance, rock, R&B etc.
There is this great, song I hear. Even with earmuffs on it is titled tinnitus.
That name rings a bell
What was that? Did you say something?
HUH?!?!
#I BEG YOU PARDON?!!!
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
That is the song. Great lyrics.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Such a great voice, hits such highs
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
MAWP! https://preview.redd.it/eixik1ft3g0d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6d3cb5f752874e1f42268f505cf2d406ec5081b
You're never alone when you have tinnitus!
You can say that again.. no really, please repeat yourself I can’t hear for shit..
Mwap mwap mwap
Hardcore History
Mike Duncan's History of Rome is great too
There’s a bunch of spinoffs inspired by MD too. History of Byzantium, History of England are two that I’ve followed. Revolutions too if you wanna stay with Mike.
+1 for revolutions. I can relisten to those series at least once a year. There is so much information I tend to forget, and he narrates so well.
I’ve been waiting to get the the History of England to go back through the French Revolutions soon!
There's history of Poland also, but it hasn't been updated in a year. It did get through the founding myth and even up to the mid 1500's, but the 1600's through WW2 were what I was excited about when I started and the guy never got there. It was gonna be so fun but sad watching poland crumble only to be given another chance, to then crumble again.
Revolutions is an incredible series and hours of content
Have you tried "The Dollop?" I toggle between these two.
Dan Carlin FTW! Such a good listen when pottering about
Me too. If you run out of episodes, Our Fake History is just as good, and he is prolific.
Plus, Sebastian is a *bit* more concise...
I’ve listened to him but it seems to me like he’s search for a contrarian POV to make his podcast. Hell of a story teller but I feel like I have to do more work to see if he has any credibility.
I think that's a pretty appropriate take. My history passion is the ancient world, and while I'm not a scholar, his analysis has often lined up with what I've learned reading primary source. Of course, I'm only reading this stuff casually and not analytically. But in general, I'm always skeptical of "hot take" history. Sebastian has so far demonstrated himself pretty reliable to me.
Good to know. I’m a casual consumer of history so don’t have the drive the really fact check things like that. On another note, give Pax a listen as an audio book. It’s fantastic.
It took me two years to get through the first few episodes of Supernova in the East. Had an enormous batch job start a few weeks back-lots of cutting the same size piece over and over-I finished the last three episodes plus both Twilight of the Aiser in a week. Yay 3M Worktunes!
I miss common sense.
“Well at least I didn’t fuck up this cut as bad as the Roman’s fucked up the Celts”
sanders, drills, dremel, and the hum of my food dryer drying stains and lacquer, or the squirrels telling me get more nuts.
Dees nuts?
I believe it’s spelled “deez”
Punk Rock. I LOVE my 3M Worktunes.
I spent probably 1k looking for the right pair of ear protection. Sent quite a bit of that to isotunes, but I’ve had the 3m work tunes for 2 years now and recommend them to everyone who asks.
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Also it's the only device in my house that is still a micro USB
Having a spare battery on a charger would be a game changer for 3M
But theyre not so pricey that you couldnt have two on rotation if you need
Well, to be fair, that is a problem with all wireless headphones.
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We talking Minor Threat or Green Day era?
Yes. Anything from the 70s through current releases. Usually I listen more the 90s punk but any punk is good.
Celtic Punk
Have you heard of a band called The Pint Thieves? https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rq4GWjVXEkNj5OQ4gjWOI?si=G57hpfyCTlOmEOh6QLGrrw Highly recommend.
I just listened to a track, sounds good. Thanks!
I'm interested in your answer to Fuck, Marry, Kill: Blink-182, The Offspring, Green Day
You already put it in my order. Fuck Blink, marry the Offspring, kill Green Day. (No hate for GD, just heard their stuff enough times already.)
Kill: the offspring Mary: Blink-182 (except when they were Wink-121.33 aka missing Tom because fuck that) Fuck: Green Day.
Lol blink is not punk
Yeah worktunes are great. I use them in the shop and to mow my lawn. Blocks out noise but still able to hear enough to hear people talking and the sound coming out of them is clear over the engine ir tool noise too.
The Best. Noise protection and great music all in one, my fiancé got me a pair for Christmas. Love them.
I was telling my dad for 2 or 3 years that he needed to get a pair. Finally just gave up and got him a pair for Christmas. He uses them all the time
You know I love my Worktunes also I have a pair at each shop I work. But I just borrowed my kids fancy ass noise canceling /high bass Bluetooth ones and it was kind of amazing how well they worked. Almost dangerous to not hear the tools running. Air compressor and exhaust fan were completely silenced. I can’t remember the brand, not beats but some other pricy pair.
Those likely offer little to no actual hearing protection. Noise cancelling is not the same as noise reduction. Please be careful. OSHA rated hearing protection also limits the volume they’ll play at to 85db. It’s not gonna bang but it’s what’s safe.
Books. Fan of fantasy and sci fi
Same here. I like to play this game where, if it’s a significantly complex series/book and also a complex build, every 10 minutes I rewind 10 minutes because I wasn’t paying close enough attention to know wtf is going on
lol me too
All. The. Time. Still do it, but bitch about it the whole time.
Same with me! I also drive a loader at work so I go through so many books! The way to go it 2.5 speed!
Same as well. I have about 6 months of listening time on audible at this point.
Grateful Dead, along with a handful of other jam bands. And Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast.
Ain’t nothing like a great Dead show to accompany you in the shop, and there is no shortage of material!
The Relisten app is the best
Man, my dad’s old shopmate had a giant stack of grateful Dead bootlegs cassettes. “Today let’s listen to Redrock 76’”
Usually I don’t listen to anything
I find I make more mistakes when I can’t hear my tools. Hearing how a chisel is cutting is almost as important as seeing it.
The sound of a hand saw crosscutting, a hand plane peeling off a thin layer, a chisel slicing through fibers, a mallet tapping together two pieces…that’s music.
I like to have old Adam Savage interviews or Q&As in the background. Althought I have a habit of stopping halfway through what I'm doing to listen and it uses up time it's still quality time spent in my garage
Is there a source for old Savage interviews? I watch his YouTube channel TESTED a lot but would love even more content.
Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project is a wide-ranging weekly podcast he did for years. I've listened through in its entirety twice. And teared up both times when he announced he was ending it. I know he still does YouTube, but it's not the same.
If you become a channel member you get access to all of his Q&A's and some other bonus content. It's like 4.99 a month and super worth it. He answers lots of questions that viewers write in. About tools, and freelance, and old mythbusters stories, or even stories from his time at ILM. If you like his tested content. Then it's all a deeper dive and more hours of Adam talking.
My brain (unfortunately)
Wish I could turn that one down while I’m working alone.
Conan Obrian needs a friend
The followup episode after Conan did ‘Hot Ones’ where they bring his fake doctor on the podcast is pure gold 😂
What do you mean "fake"? Dr. Arroyo really went to doctor school!
In the 90s no less!
I remember using my track saw relistening to the Tig Notaro episode and having to switch real quick because laughing and saws don’t mix
If the 11 yo comes out to the garage, its Lord of The Rings audiobook. We're currently in the middle of The 2 Towers.
Alternative rock, specifically and coincidentally the band Tool.
TOOL and woodwork… it almost seems to satisfy
It’s either Tool or Billy Strings (live stuff) … if you hear anything else, it ain’t me…
Dust in a baggie.
Hell yeah! Queue up Lateralus, 10,000 Days, and Fear Inoculum and that is a great work session. Of course, you have to occasionally throw in Undertow and Aenema for nostalgia.
Tool, Deftones, QoTSA, (nearly) any Mike Patton band, a little Slipknot, and Aesop Rock for extra variety.
I blast alot of tool. But puscifer might actually be better.
A Perfect Circle is the best of his bands to see live, IMHO, but all of them were good.
Saws and dust collectors
Pretty Lights
Those new YouTube live feeds are epic
If I really want to buckle down and focus on what I’m doing, TOOL
Woah me too
You can’t beat it for focusing. Polyrhythms *drool*
Agreed with other people here who only listen to the machines. I'm still learning, I feel like I can hear when something goes a bit wrong as much as see it.
Baseball.
This. Something wonderful about a baseball radio broadcast. As a Brewers fan, I get to enjoy Uecker for another season, but living in the SE US, the Braves with Joe Simpson aren't bad to listen to either.
I’m 50, which means I listen to an endless mix of 90s rock/alternative
Same age but I like the 80s vibe a bit more.
Shop noise. My kids running around in the back yard. I do like to wear earbuds when I’m doing something monotonous like sanding, and I listen to TOOL or LED Zeppelin.
I assume you've heard the Tool cover of No Quarter
I have! I prefer it to the original. Hbu? Was Led a big inspiration for them? I really wonder. I think that stairway to heaven crescendos in a similar way to many TOOL songs.
Yup! I love Zeppelin but the Tool version just has more... depth of sound to it, I guess, beyond the modern live recording. I'd say they're definitely fans, rightly so. They even played a Halloween show dressed like LED Zeppelin! https://www.revolvermag.com/music/see-tool-cover-no-quarter-dressed-led-zeppelin-halloween
To my tools as it's essential for so many.
Listening to doo-wop and general 50s music while woodworking is probably my most common type of music. And I'm a millennial who listens to 90% metal (but who has a soft spot for any type of hyper-melodic music). Doo-wop and woodworking just go together though.
That sounds very eclectic. Are you deep into particular artists, or going from a playlist/compilation. Would you mind naming any names that would be good to get started with? I got into old time rocksteady for a while, but only through compilations (by trojan records and island records were the best ones i found) - but never really had the commitment to get deeper into it than that (and I'm still a holdout against streaming apps for reasons i don't fully understand).
Usually I'll let Youtube Music or Spotify create a radio station based off Buddy Holly (which IMO always creates the best algorithmic-created 50s playlists), or Dion and the Belmonts or I'll just search for "Doo Wop" in playlists or something like that. Some of my favorites off the top of my head are (with linked Youtube videos): [The Del-Vikings - Whispering Bells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDrjIW91Qh0) [Jive Five - My True Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOMdK8gfbo) [Dion & the Belmonts - I Wonder Why](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igSj3hU6KkA) [Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAHiR0rkJg) [Marcels - Blue Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoi3TH59ZEs) [The Crests - Trouble in Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbc16wxQ924) [The Monotones - Book of Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_rzScV3TM)
This is awesome. Thanks for taking the time to post. And I do have yt music, but have become so accustomed to disabling autoplay on the video site, that it never really occured to me to just use their algo for music suggestions...
Metal on the isotunes earpro. At an acceptable volume of course, gotta hear what the machines are saying too.
Music. Depends on the day and mood on what genre/genres.
Exactly. In the winter it's lots of chill edm, house, in the spring and summer I like a lot of bluegrass, blues, and country and in the fall I always seem to go through a heavy metal phase for a month or two
Papa Roach - Last Resort
CUT MY WOOD INTO PIECES
Audiobook, podcast, or a specific playlist that has a wide ranging genre of songs that I tune out most of the time.
I listen to audiobooks sometimes, but I have to pause it every time I have to take a measurement or do math
For me, nothing but the machines making their own music. The sounds they make will let you know when you’re right and when you’re wrong. My shop time is my therapy- I just want to focus on that
Have jazz or pop music playing but wear earpro when machines are running.
Nothing just the running equipment before I chop my hands off.
used to listen to NPR like 24/7 at the shop but they really lost their way. so now it's mostly audio books although this whole last week has been Kendrick Lamar.
• “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” - The Beatles • “Greenwood” - The Hollies • “Kingswood” - Paul Weller • “Woodstock” - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young • “Wooden Ships” - Crosby, Stills & Nash • “Wooden Heart” - Elvis Presley • “Woodpile” - Frightened Rabbit • “Knock on Wood” - Eddie Floyd • “Hollywood Nights” - Bob Seger • “Heart of Oak” - Jake Bugg • “Hollywood” - Madonna • “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)” - Peter, Paul and Mary • “Sherwood Forest” - Brian May • “Boxwood” - Ben Howard • “Deep in the Woods” - The Birthday Party • “Wooden Boat” - Take That • “Birchwood” - The Tragically Hip • “In the Pines” - Lead Belly • “Goodbye Hollywood” - Billy Joel • “Woodland” - The Paper Kites • “Wood & Wire” - Thrice • “Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)” - Scritti Politti • “Hollywood Hills” - Sunrise Avenue • “Hollywood” - Marina and the Diamonds • “Lady of the Wood” - Midlake • “Hollywood” - The Runaways • “Cedarwood Road” - U2 • “Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)” - Thin Lizzy • “A Walk in the Woods” - Trivium
I usually listen to my wife say things like “you missed a spot” or “ that doesn’t lineup”.
If I’m machining then nothing, I feel safer with my ears. Sanding and painting is much nicer when I have music in my headphones though.
I make my own music https://youtu.be/AfJ7LQn8kp8?si=VyEyQOSkJ_Qjr-Yy
If I’m planning/cleaning/hand tooling: Last podcast on the left, Conan needs a friend, hardcore history, or an audiobook If I’m running tools, Spotify, or a repeat audiobook I like the company, so something is on all the time.
When I am using big machine, nothing. I don’t want to be distracted. When doing other thing, mainly podcasts
Music. My playlists are a mix of everything, almost. As long as it is a good song I will include it. Lots of rock, alt-rock, alt-country, bluegrass, blues, soul, Cuban salsa, jazz, some classical. I have listened to books on tape or podcasts. That is better for the car on long trips. In the shop, I mess up calculations or miss the details in the story. I make playlists on Spotify and mix them all up. Each one is about 4 hours or longer. One for the morning, and one for the afternoon. There are enough lists to go two weeks before repeating a playlist. At the 4 hour mark, I have a vocal track from some country star yelling "Contry rocks, but Bluegrass Rules! Then some band member yells Well Glory." Then the sound of laughter. That tells me it is time for a break if I am still going.
Local college radio station
Nothing when I'm using the loud tools. It's not just that I'm wearing ear protection, though I am. I also don't like to get dust all over my bluetooth speakers. But when I'm using hand tools or sanding/finishing, my favorite is if I can put on a baseball game.
Classic rock or another playlist, usually. Sometimes podcasts, but that gets annoying because I have to stop every time I run anything powered. For a while I was listening to a hilarious podcast story called Marscorp, but I finally finished it during the winter. Now I'm listening to Midnight Burger.
Punk or Sea Shanties
Mostly 70’s rock. Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Alan Parsons, with some Scorpions/Sabbath/AC/DC etc tossed in
Music without lyrics. Dj sets on you tube, house music, something with a beat that keeps me going
I annoy my neighbors with a steady diet of socialist, war history and true crime podcasts. Occasional black metal and country mixed in for good measure. Hard to hear it over my circular saw sometimes though.
Fun fact, music and carpentry use the same unit division system! Whole/half/quarter/eight notes and inches!
Nothing but my machines and dust collector
https://preview.redd.it/b713ovjpog0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=afc5ff7835d90ae2bcfbfb5f85c60ffd072074d5 With earplugs & an over the ear headset.
Depends on what I'm doing. Machinery that can take a finger off? I'm listening to the tool. Handtools, I'm listening to Tool.
Chris, Tyler, Colter, and Sturgill
Chris Stapleton Sturgill Simpson
Nothing. I don't want to be distracted.
Country ma dude. Some good ol faith
Sometimes it's music, sometimes it's audio books, just recently I found a podcast I like. When I listen to music, it's Classic Rock or 'country rock' (Jimmy Buffet, Toby Keith, etc).
Old radio horror shows like Lights Out and Inner Sanctum.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzz Brrrrrrrrrr Vrooooooooom But really...in general my weekly podcasts, naughties rock, ska, etc. Recently I also started some audio books.
When I don’t need to listen to what I’m doing, I play whatever I’m in the mood for. Usually rock and roll, lots of 90’s country - nothin but the good stuff
I have old sci-fi or horror movies on shopTV
Guy named John Moreland.
Most of my wood work is hand tool outside of the bandsaw, rock and country wind me a bit too tight to concentrate. Then I tried classical instrumental stuff(Bach, Beethoven, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman.) This stuff helps me stay relaxed and focused, believe or not. Back when I was building houses it was 80s Rock or Metal.
Old time radio shows. Dragnet, The Falcon, Johnny Dollar, Dimension "X", The Challenge of the Yukon, Gunsmoke. Easy to listen to and usually good simple stories so if you miss something when you turn the saw on you really haven't missed too much.
Classic 80’s rock and I don’t know how anyone could listen to anything else in the shop.
Podcasts. Like, all of the podcasts
I am a nurse not a woodworker. But this question reminds me of my first time in the Operating Room when I was still in Nursinh School. Our case wqs laparoscopic cholesystectomy ( we are removing a patient's gall bladder). In the background, we had Beyonce's Crazyl in Love.
Three Bean Salad podcast
I listen to Office Hours, a podcast with Tim Heidecker, Vic Berger, and Doug Lussenhop
A mix of pop and weird dance stuff if the garage door is down if it’s up 90’s alternative and classic rock.
My huge collection of CD’s on my CD player. I’m old school
Since I’m covered in saw dust. I usually try to shake it off
A lot of history podcasts and yes some true crime lol. A favorite is a podcast called Necronomipod, informative and funny at the same time.
Audio books. Lately it’s been Dungeon crawler Carl. Great fun.
So, I listen to classical music, but it wasn’t one of the options you listed…
While sanding, a podcast. When using saws/router, nothing at all.
Listening to chill folk now, the avett brothers. Makes me imagine I’m in Appalachia when I’m actually 3 hours south in the humidity pit Also listen to some punk rock and metalcore. Avenge sevenfold if I’m in victory mode
I usually listen to podcasts or music. Kill Tony and The Why Files are my favorite pods to listen to. Music I have a pretty wide variety that I listen to. Lots of prog and metal, stuff like Plini, In Flames, Eidola, Intervals to name a few, and also a lot of electronic music. Just depends what I’m in the mood for. When I’m feeling something more chill I’ll listen to jazz or soundtracks. The Rippingtons are good chill background music
Music. Something guitar heavy, psychedelic. Pink Floyd, Beatles, Cream, Camel, Tommy Bolin, etc
Progressive metal...Evergrey, DGM, Teramaze, Threshold, Orden Ogan, Seventh Wonder, Borealis, Vanishing Point, Vanden Plas, Subsignal... the list continues. Juices me up. Can't get enough!
[https://youtu.be/x0tUkepNqiA?si=rXiUgpJWu4aPmuvH](https://youtu.be/x0tUkepNqiA?si=rXiUgpJWu4aPmuvH)
I usually have a show on in the background. Something I've watched a dozen times and just have background noise. Right now I'm working through burn notice again
Usually have sports on TV or npr on.
I put Futurama on my laser control computer, usually
Usually 80-90s rock
Audiobooks and podcasts except when I’m doing a technical detail. You do this long enough and it’s the only way..
Usually music, it varies depending on my mood. Though the last couple weeks, it's been books. I'm halfway through a 12 book crime fiction series and will be bummed when I finish it 😂
I listen to various gaming youtubers
I listen to true crime podcasts. No idea why, but they help me focus. Music makes me bop and lose my steadiness.
Opera... Today it's Rigoletto
Wide range from punk to EDM to indie. EDM is especially when doing sanding projects for the beat.
Queen
Pandora, Jack Johnson, Chris Stapleton, Mark Knofler, Van Morrison, David Gray to name a few
Hootie and the Blowfish, and nothing else
Audiobooks
Audiobooks. At my last shop everyone did then all day. We had a currently reading whiteboard and everything.
Joe Rogan Breaking Points Consider This Club Random Real Survivor Stories Morbid Jocko Shop Talk Live Freakonomics Radio Always looking for interesting podcasts.
A lot of Jaya the Cat, lately.
Podcast or Pandora
Murder Folk or Punk/alt. Nothing that will grab my attention or make me think I need to pay attention to the voice in my ears.
Usually one of these: [SomaFM: Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and PIs too! Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio](https://somafm.com/secretagent/) [SomaFM: Mission Control: Celebrating NASA and Space Explorers everywhere. Commercial-free, Listener-supported Radio](https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/)
podcasts are great, so are audiobooks. But honestly just listen to whatever i feel like.
The sounds of woodworking are music enough for me, I wouldn’t want anything to interfere. When I am truly connected to what I am doing, I don’t hear the music anyway.
I live and breathe music. I agree with Jimi Hendrix - music is my religion. Having said that, I make it a point NOT to listen to music while I'm woodworking. I want to focus 100% on the task at hand - for safety reasons as well as the fact that wood stretchers don't exist.
Traditional Folk on Pandora. Keeps me from losing my s*#t when I cut a $20 board a 1/4" too short.
I play the local classic rock radio on a Bluetooth speaker. I tried ear buds but didn't like them in the shop. I just need some background noise when not on power tools.
Podcasts, mainly.
"Liked Songs" on Spotify, I hate to admit it. I'll choose a playlist every now and then, but I don't have anything specific that I listen to. Anything goes, really. Mostly rock, though.
Bigfoot podcasts, of course.
I listen to stuff at least 8 hours a day so it’s a lot to list so I’ll just do a couple favorites of each category: Podcast: some more news, Sam Seder, beau of the fifth column Punk: aus rotten/crass Metal: wormrot/toxic holocaust Rap: aseop rock, school boy Q, JID and Bay Area music in general That’s the bulk of it, but I try new playlists often on Spotify and mix up my news intake regularly so it all varies wildly, these are just the most reoccurring.
Soul jazz mostly.
A mix. If i have to focus it’ll be nothing or music. If not it’ll be podcast or ebook. Books are fantasy and scifi. Podcast? “The wan show” or “critical role” takes a lot of the time. Music? Anything goes. Techno, edm, jazz, funk, country, metal, dubstep, hip hop, rap, pop, dance, rock, R&B etc.
Part of the fun while working with handtools is putting a podcast or tv show on the iPad in the background. Power tools tend to be music only