Music Employed to Keep You Awake at Work

any black metal - the noisier the better! It works the same as your dronerock but it's faster and less involving but keeps you working fast.

Pretty d'n'b.

I work customer service at Kohl's Department Stores, which consists of standing in a big booth for about 8 hours a day... and while their choice of network Adult Contemporary is 90% of the time utter crap, its kept me quite entertained. I've found that almost all the songs on the radio are about love or love gone bad. So every time a song that is NOT about love comes on, one of the shoes associates makes a page simply saying "not about love." Yeah, this is a dim, miserable existence, but it pays well to do very little... and hey, once in a while Ill hear the Stones' "Waiting on a Friend" or Queen's "These Are the Days of our Lives" Almost makes it worth it... ALMOST...

anything particularly hyper, which begs my blood to pump in time. can't be something overly involving, or if it is, it must be something that i know really well already so i'm not too distracted by wanting to follow every single instrumental thread throughout the entire song, taking copious mental notes on how it's all woven together.

Hi-Posi is brilliant at work; live Underworld (proper recordings of theirs are a little too clean for my taste---still good, but i like them vastly more when they're dirty), most Bis, and lately a lot of Two-Mix will work to carry me throughout my day.

failing speed, plain noise is also good. but nothing too trance-inducing. MBV only works in certain instances for that reason, because i'll usually want to stop and just float around in the music and not get much of anything productive done. it's a real danger, that. :)

If I'm truly tired (which I seem to be most of the time) I can't listen to music at work. Since I have to use headphones (I think) it puts me to sleep... Even if I turn it up loud, it puts me to sleep. Maybe because it dulls the rest of my senses/awareness? I dunno....

I got called in to the boss's office for falling asleep at work today - EEK! I don't think I've ever worked anywhere where it was really acceptable to listen to music at work.

Xinlisupreme.

The word "employed" in the title makes me think of CIA psychic torture. Like playing Derek Bailey at people so they can't go to sleep.

Lots of free jazz. John Coltrane's Ascension will usually do the trick, as will Cecil Taylor's Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come or 3 Phasis. But when it gets really bad, like this morning, I have to pull out the heavy artillery: Orthrelm.