Does you all prefer lots of commotion when you work?
Or do you prefer silence?
(I prefer full sensory deprivation, my wife has the TV blaring. Very interesting mix when we both work from home)

Commotion...

Silence makes me distracted and builds up my need to smoke, music irritates me while working... A lot of normal work ambient noise it's white noise to me and helps me think...

Silence, or when that's distracting: some minor background noise to force me to ignore it.

For getting through boring repetitive tasks, I like classical music, ambient progrock, anything where it's not too jarring and there's no lyrics to distract me. For problem solving, gotta have silence or I get pissy.

@lb13 Have you ever heard of Mogwai?

@vanhoosr yes I have :) I remember seeing a music video for them years ago and just sat there mesmerised.

Co-workers have this one radio that repeats two 5 or 10 hit songs all day, it's like a sad playlist lol I prefer my SoundCloud likes, to anything else really, silence helps sometimes but it's hardly silent at work with that radio :(, at one point though (dunno why it got changed) there was a radio station with lots of good 80's (possibly older) music, was really enjoying that while it lasted :(