I tend to play something "nice" and "normal". Viking folk/metal, experimental jazz, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Behemoth.
I'd want something of high quality, not too happy, not too difficult to comprehend so my customers don't feel they're idiots (well, some of them are 😉 ).

rammstein, dreadzone, pitchshifter, forensics, 1 speed bike, legendary pink dots, bach, glass, eno. my workshop, my music.

I like good music to work to. music that makes you think. that's why current 'R'n'B' is un-music, as is pop. this is music to make the listener not think.

I tried W.A.S.P., the Irish boss couldn't stomach it. "Kris, play something normal, you know, rock, like, U2. You like U2, right? It's heavy metal, right?"

U2 and R'n'B mainly.

I have been playing classical music to try and calm my colleague down!

Whatever Auntie LaLa plays, or whatever the shuffle on my phone throws up from the thousand or so tracks on here.

Usually Classic FM or BBC 6 Music via internet radio and a set of noise cancelling earphones. 🙂

Idm, house, trance etc. Don't like vocals when I'm coding. Future sound of London is perfect work music for me. Squarepusher at a push but a little too random which forces me to pay too much attention to the music rather than the code.

radio 2 all day long.

Recent ones have been:

Caspa & Rusko
Fugazi
ISIS
Benga
and Im trying to get into Sunn O)))

Also, got the new **** Up release so I'll have a listen to that tomorrow.

Its mainly just loud, unmelodic stuff

I listen to a variety of stuff – thrash metal, death metal, black metal, industrial metal, battle metal, symphonic metal, avant garde metal, folk metal, doom metal, gothic metal, power metal, hard rock, classic rock and show tunes.

Mrs Toast, hats off to your good taste!

Mrs Toast, head banging to happy hands…like it

ipod shuffle all day. A mix of hardcore punk, metal, rock, and 'stuff'. A lot of Black Flag, Misfits, old Sepultura, Mudhoney, Minutemen, DRI, James Taylor, Beach Boys, Hendrix, Slayer, you know, that kinda stuff…. keeps me focused!

"as is pop. this is music to make the listener not think. "

really? I would disagree strongly with that – just because something is popular doesn't mean it can't be thought provoking/ interesting/ original / whatever

i listen to what ever the voices in my head tell me to

I actually find i get more work done if i don't have music on, mainly because my job involves talking on the telephone a lot and its a bit difficult to sound professional with some of the stuff i listen to 😯

Has to be ambient for me or it distracts me. Somebody recommended this a while ago and its OK.

Groove Salads

beats, samples and robot noises

if i'm at 'work', iTunes on random, which could be anything from mafia folk music to Rise Against. if however i actually need to get things done, classical – Chopin, Wagner, Rachmaninoff

Blimey, Beach Boys and Slayer in the same sentence 😉

Currently listening to Arch Enemy.
Otherwise a slightly smaller subset of MrsToast's list I guess

Plus Hair Metal 🙂

How about this to ease your day past until time to ride http://www.liveireland.com/live.asx

Today so far…

Magnetic Fields
Warp acid house compilation
Lambchop
Annie (electro-pop minx, not musical)
Royksop

live Ireland? Can listen to Korean just as well 😀