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Wow!! Lots of different musical interests here. I'm gonna have to try a few of the groups mentioned here that I've never heard of before.

MLB baseball during the season as well as an eclectic assortment of music; Jazz, Beatles and lots of 80's stuff.

Raualduke

Cardinals baseball will be back soon. Then I'll be a happy camper again.

I look forward to baseball season, too.  I spend the evenings sitting out in my beer garden, having a glass or two of beer, but I'm listening to the Phillies' games.  Of course, I won't be at the bench as often.

Cdn Colin

Talk radio.  AM 640, to be exact.

Me, too.  In the evenings, it's WNTP 990 AM out of Philly, for Mark Levin, or WABC 770 AM out of New York, for John Bachelor.

"Pandora Radio" on the PC.

"Power Metal" mostly...Gamma Ray, Helloween, lots of European/South American metal, some classics..Dio, Iron Maiden...even hear the Doog on there from time to time.

Cardinals baseball will be back soon. Then I'll be a happy camper again.

I listen to Winnipeg Jets hockey on radio, podcasts, or something on Youtube, like Phil Flory's channel.

Jazz PBR radio station, KUVO.org, in Denver.

I'm with SChambers and genrics

Either Goth metal on Pandora, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Delan Etc. or  audiobooks and old time radio shows.

Depends on my mood and whether I want to concentrate or vedge.

54 and I don't know of I'm old or young.

Doing my modeling at my work site for now.  Classic rock from the 60's and 70's for the most part.

Nothing; I enjoy the silence. I used to listen to music (usually heavy metal) while modeling a long time ago but I found myself listening to the music more than modeling, and besides, there was too much chance of whacking my build with a hand while playing air drums.

I listen to audiobooks, old time radio shows, music. I have an iPod, CD player, and cassette player in the workshop.

Thanks Raualduke

I grew up in the 70's on radio rock (both the soft and hard variety);  southern rock and classic outlaw country, which my sisters' biker boyfriends were into; punk rock and early synthesizer-based music (Devo mostly), which my intellectual cousins were into; and, easy listening music and southern soul (Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, etc), which my father was very much into. I began playing the electric guitar as a teen, and a friend from Germany turned me on to metal, which coincided with the rise of thrash and speed metal, so I became somewhat of a metal head. That only lasted a few years though, as my tastes were still evolving. I briefly studied music in college, where I began to appreciate various forms of jazz and classical. I've also always had a natural affinity for American blues music, which is probably my personal favorite, if I have a favorite

Jetmaker, that is quite the eclectic list, very cool

I have XM radio so I usually listen to classic album rock, classical music or baseball when in season.  Sometimes I fire up the CD player with some music.

Goth metal on the PC,Lacuna Coil,Nightwish,Sister Sin,ect.

like others have said, depends on my mood and what i am building. if i steam music through my laptop it's classical, especially russian, surf music, top 40ish, new age or movie scores. i will tailor movie scores to what i am building THE BLUE MAX when building planes. sometimes i have nothing on. i will have football on the tv in season but generally don't pay attention.

I must be an anomaly.

My computer is also on my modelling bench so i normally put on a DVD and let it play. I have to make sure it's something i've seen before - otherwise i do start watching it.

Normally it's a movie that i really enjoy and have seen dozens of times, that way i can tune in and out without wondering what happened in the last 10 minutes and always rewinding to find out.

I usually have Pandora playing in the background while I'm checking out all the posts here. I expect that's what will be playing in the background when I get my work area finished and I can get back to the hard work of enjoying myself. I shuffle through a list of stations. They are:

The Allman Brothers Band

Led Zeppelin

Pink Floyd

Rush

Wilson Pickett

The Sonics

The Stooges

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto

Scott Joplin

Ludwig Van Beethoven

The Beatles

Black Sabbath

Cheap Trick

Mountain

Waylon Jennings

John Coltrane

Miles Davis

I keep the volume just loud enough to cover the muffled cries for help coming from the basement

I listen to music on my ipod-nano. It has an FM radio tuner also, allowing me to listen to ballgames and talk radio.

I've recently started to take my ear-buds out when working with small, fiddly bits though. That way I can hear the part ticking off something when it shoots across the room

To ygmodeler4,

Daft Punk Radio

Nothing at all. Or, mellow stuff like classical music, pink floyd, etc. Classic rock.

It all depends.

I've got different podcasts I listen throughout the week and since I can't listen to them while writing papers or reading for classes I usually listen to them while I workout, model, or driving to campus. One of them is C-SPAN radio's -Washington Today (I'm a political science major), which comes out daily. Another one is NPR's Intelligence squared debates which are quite interesting, and lastly Freakonomics radio, both of which come out usually just one a week.

When I've already listened to all the current podcasts its whatever I feel like on Pandora...a couple of my favorites are Lynyrd Skynyrd radio, Die Walkure radio, Rock Road to Dublin Radio, Temptations radio, Daft Punk radio, and Miles Davis radio.

I have a "cassette" recorder that plays my "tapes" from the 70's and early 80's.  

I enjoy my quiet down in the cave, but you guys have me thinking about trying some music. Who knows, I might like it.

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