I know this will sound pretty airy-fairy for some but there are New Age instrumental tunes that are designed for specific moods and enhance things like relaxation, inspiration, self-motivation, energy...

Do a search for New Age music and you will find a ton of stuff to look through.

Cool, I'll have to take a look, thanks!

~Dexx

I like to listen to heavy stuff when its HTML or code checking time. That task is so boring to me that the music will help me stay alive while my eyes burn from the lines of code I have to review,lol..

I listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan when I am working, most of the time. If it's blues rock, I'm into it!

For the most part, I listen to music much too often.

It is quite easy to forget that your working while listening to music.

There was a case study done a few years that shows when you listen
to classical music, productivity improves.

I'm the same way Dexx,

Songs with lyrics really break my focus, but I love stuff like "Quantic Soul Orchestra, Wax Tailor, RJD2 etc... check those guys out. Quantic Soul Orchestra will get you moving.

I always listen to Explosions in the Sky when I'm working online.

... they are strictly an instrumental band, but they are incredible.

Most people know them from doing the Friday Night Lights soundtrack (the movie, not the television show).

Explosions in the sky - First breath after coma - YouTube

I live to type in a song or artist on pandora and listen while I work on designs or whatever. I don't find it at all distracting. I really like listening to Apocalyptica or Bond, something with little or no lyrics but a lot driving beat!!!

Dude, music is like a everyday thing, I don't know anybody that doesn't listen to music. I mostly listen to love songs, it gets me through the day. Music is what keep me through each day just listening to it, it helps me with my emotion and I have to keep on moving in life.

Yeah Dexx, I like to listen to instrumental music while I work sometimes. New age, epic style movie trailer type music, and guitar music. Here's a song from an all instrumental album titled 11:11. Don't know what you like, music-wise, but I find it stimulates my thinking.

Rodrigo y Gabriela- "Hanuman" OFFICIAL - YouTube
PS - You might try www.pandora.com too. You basically create your own radio station with a seed song and it will play songs it thinks you'll like based on the the seed song. You vote up or down on the other songs. It doesn't take long at all before you've created a station that is really customized to your liking. If you give it a song a thumbs up or don't rate it you'll hear it again, if you give it a thumbs down you'll never hear it again.

I normally play and listen to my collection of the 90's great songs with my wonderful Logitech speakers.

These songs can make me feel relax.

I love soft smoothing music at the background.

But When I wake up, I play I am alive, you simply the best to "wake" me up

Take regular break to break the rhythm and it will help in productivity

I find this work for me.

Musics help me a lot while doing math!!!

I like to put on Wiz Khalifa or Big sean when I'm doing things. It all depends on the hour of the day and what I'm doing. But for sure music when I work.

I listen to 90's alternative rock while working. For some reason it helps my creative process.

Depends on the task. ALWAYS when doing graphics stuff, NEVER when writing content.

I go for epic music, just search "epic music" in youtube most of what you get in the search results will do just nicely.

I prefer the classic instrumentals like from the Baroque era.

Yeah well common but the ornate instrumentation and composition of Baroque classical music gets a lot of attention for its possible mind-boosting effects. Eight radiologists were asked to go about their day while listening to Baroque-period tunes. They mostly self-reported better mood and productivity.

Or perhaps try Mozart for the so-called 'Mozart effect'

Music. . . My favourite topic!

I specialized in neuroscience in university and did quite a bit with music cognition while I was there.

If you're doing something involving language, be it reading or writing, then music with lyrics of your native tongue will distract you. Music with foreign lyrics will distract you less and obviously instrumentals will distract you the least.

If you are doing something else involving calculations or coding you can get away with some lyrical music without it getting in the way. But as it's been mentioned, if you know the lyrics it's hard not to wander off into your favourite chorus.

If you're a musician I wouldn't listen to music of the instrument you play either. If you haven't caught on the trend, don't listen to things related to what you are doing or familiar with, it'll take your mind away from the task.

Besides that it's up to you. I listen to everything from classical to techno to gangster rap. Some people work better pumped up, others when they are mellowed out. During the day if I've had some coffee the tunes get pretty epic (battle scene orchestral stuff). By the end of the night I usually mellow out to something a little slower. Pick how you like to vibe and the rest is up to you!

Also for those who have heard of The Mozart Effect, it's a complete myth.