Grinding music

[rbc_mike]

If you listen to music when grinding, what helps you focus/gets your in the zone?  Different for live/online?

No online session is complete for me without a listen to Jurrasic 5's "Quality Control" album (fwiw I rarely listen to hiphop). 

Let's get a blonde playlist going

[TommyD]

I heartedly recommend listening to classic video game soundtracks while grinding, I do it all the time, kind of chills me.  Things like Tekken 2, Final Fantasy soundtracks and such, plenty of playlists from them on the You Tube.  Just be careful when you search for them, you can end up wasting hours watching someone else play crap like Night Trap.

[kinboshi]

Barry White is the old favourite as music to grind to, surely?

[Poker_Monkey]

Barry White is the old favourite as music to grind to, surely?

+1

[mulhuzz]

feel like Boyce Avenue need some love.

just the best for grinding imo.

[Kev B]

The two I listen to most recently are James Hunter "People Gonna Talk" nice and chilled, and Vintage Trouble "The Bomb Shelter Sessions"

[AndrewT]

My poker sessions are soundtracked by my own gentle sobbing.

[kinboshi]

My poker sessions are soundtracked by my own gentle sobbing.

Glad you clarified you were talking about poker.

[tight4better]

For when you're stuck so much it hurts.

[AndrewT]

My poker sessions are soundtracked by my own gentle sobbing.

Glad you clarified you were talking about poker.

In those other sessions I'm not the one who is crying.

[rbc_mike]

For when you're stuck so much it hurts.

Kill it. Kill it with fire.

[DaveShoelace]

This is not poker playing related, but the second I stopped listening to music in the background while I was working, my focus and productivity skyrocketed. I personally listen to music while I play because I only play for fun, but if I ever took it seriously again, especially if I was playing lots of tables, I'd advocate not listening to music.

[aaron1867]

Lady Gaga - edge of glory

Then I turn it off when I lose

[kinboshi]

This is not poker playing related, but the second I stopped listening to music in the background while I was working, my focus and productivity skyrocketed. I personally listen to music while I play because I only play for fun, but if I ever took it seriously again, especially if I was playing lots of tables, I'd advocate not listening to music.

Interesting, as I am probably the opposite.  Probably depends on the nature of the work involved, and also the music being played as well. 

[DaveShoelace]

This is not poker playing related, but the second I stopped listening to music in the background while I was working, my focus and productivity skyrocketed. I personally listen to music while I play because I only play for fun, but if I ever took it seriously again, especially if I was playing lots of tables, I'd advocate not listening to music.

Interesting, as I am probably the opposite.  Probably depends on the nature of the work involved, and also the music being played as well. 

Yeah, I think if I could hack classical music that would be ok in the background, but generally I like my music either fast, loud, edgy or all three so probably terrible for working to.