Your Personal Soundtrack

Ballan

"At any given point, music is playing around me" EXACTLY!

After all these years of music and audio, however, I still haven't achieved it. But here are a few ideas:

Early Morning

CPE Bach

Gym

Earth Wind and Fire
Isley Brothers
Jamiroquoi

Studying/Working

Looking for suggestions here, but have also experimented with nature recordings for more interesting "white noise"

Falling Asleep

Keith Jarret Facing You

Any Time

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pink Floyd

Driving

A great activity for music where I need to think more....

What we are trying to get at here is not just "Oh I like smooth jazz with my Starbucks" type of suggestions,

but how you specifically incorporate really great, timeless classics or destined to become classic music into the soundtrack for your life.

Bongofury,

Thank you for your suggestions on the music you like.

For this thread, we are also discussing how everyone incorporates music into their life - so how does music accompany you during what time(s) day(s) and activities in your life, hence your "personal soundtrack."

Oh yes, "downtime" is also an important activity.

But in my ideal world, music would accompany everything I do, as described by Ballan.

Right now, I am at the office, and forced to listen to CNBC all day.

Blindjim,

Even CNBC couldnt torture me into reaching for a remote.

Regarding my personal soundtrack, however, I found Bill Evans very useful while working this morning on some emails and internet research.

Mahler was too loud and too heavy. Aaron Coplan mixed.

Here's something different:

For a traditional boxing workout starting with skipping rope:

Herbie Hancock - Chameleon from the Headhunters album.

A jazz/funk classic and 15:41 track length for a perfect warm up.