Reviving this!!
I have a little speaker in my work area (as well as a 1980s shortwave radio that still works!). I often listen to classic WWI/WWII songs like Tipperary and We’ll Meet Again. A current favorite of mine is an a East German satire band called IFA Wartburg which has a jazzy yet propagandistic feel to it. Sometimes I listen to Soviet disco as well! Then some days I listen to German/Dutch techno and French music. Really all over the place!
I’m a podcast guy so I’m currently working through the Plastic Posse Podcast backlog. Otherwise I love audiobooks; I reserve music for when I’m working in the woodshop and can’t afford to be distracted. In those cases I’m usually playing some focus-encouraging Spotify list, like synthwave or lofi.
Wow, that’s a blast from the past. I used to love listening to Art Bell!
Depends on my mood…sometimes its just instrumental like the Skyrim or Last of Us soundtracks…sometimes its 40s Junction on Sirius XM, and sometimes its modeling podcasts like my buddy Rob’s Modeling Insanity podcast or Plastic Posse…
Modeling podcasts?! I need to start listening to those!
Oooh; same. Add the Firewatch and Red Dead Redemption I and II to that list for some great atmospherics listening.
I can listen to any of the music I have when building models, but I cannot do the same when I am at work. I found the “angry” stuff interferes with my higher cognitive functions. Once I was working on the weekend by myself and brought along all my angry music to go with my mood. I kept turning up the volume until I realized I could no longer do my engineering calculations. And I didn’t realize the accountant guy next door was also working the weekend. Oops. I felt terrible. I’m pretty sure he had a hard time running the balance sheets while Twisted Sister thundered through the walls.
After that, it was only softer, nicer music at work.
But at home, I usually just choose a long playlist, so I don’t have to keep looking up to pick another. I will sometimes match the music to the model if I can. I must have listened to the Aliens soundtrack endless times while working on the Halcyon APC.
Rock from the 70’s(my teenage years)like Boston,Kansas,Steve Miller. Lately, I’ve been listening to modeling podcasts too.(model podcasts.com)
I have a long set of liked songs on Spotify that I play. I pretty much just play that list over and over there are like 1000 songs on it.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s so most of my list is 80s hair bands, late 80s punk, 90s grunge, and early 00s rock. And sprinkle in some rap and hip hop here and there.
My music is very eclectic, a mix of Two Steps from Hell, David Bowie, Dire Straits, Savage Garden, Queen, some old Beatles stuff, lots of stuff from the 80s and 90s and when I’m in the mood, talk radio. This really shows my age
Like most folks, I have pretty eclectic tastes, so workshop music varies a lot. Of late, I’ve been listening to Pink Floyd albums, mostly getting ready for the release of the remastered Pompeii show. Before that, I would usually use a Pandora “radio station” that I set based on type of music, be it synthwave, 80s hair metal, 70s funk, piano jazz, sultry lounge music, R&B, Gaelic music, or stoner rock / doom metal. Pandora will play similar types of music to my selection, so I often find new bands or rediscover old ones that way.
Best part of the office being in the same basement as the workbench is that I don’t bother my coworkers with loud music. 
I listen to music from the 50s to the early 2000. I also like to have a race or college game on in the background
I utilize Spotify and I have a very long list of tunes in my play list from Fats Domino to 5 Finger Death Pounch 
I use sirius xm in my hobby room. Usually hair metal or ozzy’s boneyard. Occasionally 80’s on 8. When I’m in the garage I have an old ipod with 10000 songs on it that I jam to.
I’m a classical music junkie and have a 5 CD spindle and say 800 CDs to prove it. On thing I like about the hobby is that it goes well with music.
Eric
I will either have Spotify running in the background which I have several playlists from classical to death metal. Just depends on my mood. But I usually stream a show while building.
If I do listen to music while modeling, it’s mostly 1980’s era stuff and/or movie music soundtracks. I love the 80’s.
I’m a huge music fan - but could never listen to it when I’m concentrating. Studying, working or modeling. Kicking it - yes.
Music to build by? Anything from Two Steps From Hell. Epic!
If not music then https://www.liveatc.net/ Usually listen to Miami Approach.
At the bench,no music. Sports talk radio or a game,but mostly silence.
My “bench” is a tiny little computer desk in my living room so the TV is my background sound. If the wife is there it is invariably some horrendous Hallmark movie or reality TV show which I pretty much just ignore. When she is not it is YouTube history/archeology shows or one of the many “Will It Run” car resurrection shows. I find these nice because they can sort of drone on in the background and I can just look up if something sounds interesting.
If I listen to music at all it is the heavy “shock rock” stuff like Manson and Zombie.
I’ve been a death metal head since it was first introduced to me in 1995, before that it was slayer and the like. Oddly enough death metal/ heavy metal isn’t the best thing to listen to while trying to complete a model. Mostly I put on political video podcasts on rumble and listen to that in the background.