Five Music Questions:

[cherish44]

Name your favorite music to have playing when doing the following activities:

1. Housework
2. Exercising
3. Driving
4. Chilling Out
5. Making love


Mine
Housework: Usually listen to classic rock station
Exercising: Hard rock...usually Metallica
Driving: Springsteen
Chilling out: Jam Bands...The Grateful Dead at the top of the list
Making love: Cool, soulful Motown :)

[Deja Q]

1. Okay

1. Housework
The B-52s

2. Exercising
Benny Benassi

3. Driving
Tears for fears

4. Chilling Out
(Never do this)

5. Making love
(Never do this)

[kentauros]

2. The following:

1,2,3 (mousework, hexercise, driving) - belly dance music :D
(I don't dance; I just love the music, especially the drumming...)

4. Chillin' - Jonathon Goldman, Deuter, Mars Lasar, Philip Glass

5. Lovin' - silence

:)

[madamesilverspurs]

12. Belly dance music!

Absolutely the best for doing housework. There were two vinyl albums in a box lot I bought at an auction years ago; I put them on the turntable and listened while I cleaned. Gotta say, it does something for the elbow grease!

[kentauros]

15. And if you're learning to belly dance,

I've heard of some people practicing while they do their housework :D

[pokerfan]

3. ~

1. Housework: 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' by Wagner

2. Exercising: 'I'm Fat' by Weird Al Yankovic

3. Driving: Theme song from Jonny Quest

4. Chilling Out: 'Don't Worry Be Happy' by Bobby McFerrin

5. Making love: 'I Love You' by Barney the Dinosaur

[Deja Q]

5. You got me at #5

:bounce:
:rofl:

[cherish44]

6. Actually I'm going to try working out to I'm Fat by Weird Al

I think it would be a great motivator :)

[tigereye]

4. hmm

1. Housework - Billy Bragg or punk or reggae
2. Exercising - I usually exercise outside, or swim, so no music
3. Driving - any loud alternative rock - like Midnight Oil or jazz on my favorite NPR station
4. Chilling Out - cool school jazz a la Miles Davis
5. Making love - if I had to pick one type of music, probably jazz or music from India

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Hmm...

Housework: Whatever I'm in the mood for.
Exercising: Closest thing I do to exercise is skateboarding, which always calls for hip-hop.
Driving: I don't drive, but again it'd be whatever I'm in the mood for.
Chilling Out: M83 and the like.
Making love: Air's "Moon Safari"

[Chan790]

8. 5ive Answers

1.) The Decemberists.
2.) Gogol Bordello.
3.) I don't drive...if I did, the radio would be off.
4.) Jay-Z.
5.) Seriously. I don't want music on during that.

[Karl Heinrich]

9. Okay

Housework: Rootsy Rock
Exercising: British Invasion Rock
Driving: Country and Mexican
Chilling Out: The most eclectic mix possible
Making Love: The sounds of my partner are music enough

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Music:

1. Housework: Anything loud.

2. Exercising: I don't exercise if I can avoid it.

3. Driving: Anything loud. Opera or other (loud) classical.

4. Chilling Out: Renaissance music

5. Making love: Huh? What is this "making love' of which you speak?

[sarge43]

11. Mine

1. Housework: Mahler's Kindertotenlieder housework is right up there with dental appointments.

2. Exercising: Sousa's marches

3. Driving: Classic rock, 50's and 60's

4. Mozart or Debussy

5. Cool jazz, Miles Davis is best

[madamesilverspurs]

13. Here's mine...

Housework - belly dance music (see #12)

Exercising - Big Band

Driving - 50s and 60s

Chilling out - Folk music

Making love - if you can care about music you're doing it wrong

[Initech]

14. OK I'll play:

1. Housework: Beck

2. Exercising: Iron Maiden

3. Driving: The Roots

4. Chilling Out: Sublime

5. Making Love: Jimi Hendrix

[BlueJazz]

16. My extremely varied tastes

1. Classical or Jazz
2. Classical or Jazz
3. Classical or Jazz
4. Classical or Jazz
5. Classical or Jazz

[Iggo]

17. Okay.

1. Metal
2. Metal
3. Metal
4. Oldies
5. Metal

[Burma Jones]

18. Oh, OK

1. Housework - The Ramones, other punk, loud and defiant
2. Exercising - My iPod Gym mix, has all sorts of music at around 110 beats per minute, everything from 16th Century Dance Tunes to Green Day.
3. Driving - Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Beatles, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Comedy and New Age stuff when stuck in traffic (I have XM in the car.....very handy)
4. Chilling Out - Renaissance Music, Bach, Mozart, Polyphonic Spree, Beatles, Fripp and Eno, Indian Classical Music, Progressive Rock
5. Making love - Depends......usually something repetitive like Techno or Yoga Chants or Ambient, often just heavy breathing and the sound of the baby monitor....