# Plz recommend upbeat workplace appr music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669 "2024-08-13T20:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/1 "2024-08-13T20:07:33Z")
I’m looking for new tunes. Love me some AC~DC and Bon Jovi, but eventually ya need something new. I occasionally get to set the Pandora (or etc) for the day, and even I’m getting tired of my usual playlist. My poor coworkers are about _done_ with Led Zep. I work in a restaurant kitchen, so Mozart and Vivaldi won’t work out. It’s gotta keep people moving, over the noise and chaos. An occasional 👿 word is okay as long as it’s not nonstop obscenities. Lil’ help? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/2 "2024-08-13T20:10:20Z")
Disco? Ok, I’ll leave now. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/3 "2024-08-13T20:40:18Z")
Try tossing [Brian Vander Ark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Vander_Ark) at Pandora. Example: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2yCqFAO6xt0/maxresdefault.jpg "Brian Vander Ark - A Million Things") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yCqFAO6xt0) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/4 "2024-08-13T20:41:27Z")
What you’re looking for is [Yacht Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock)! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/5 "2024-08-13T20:42:45Z")
The Violent Femmes or Talking Heads? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/6 "2024-08-13T21:08:36Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Love me some AC~DC and Bon Jovi Doesn’t compute. At all. But there’s no accounting for taste, as they say. So I’m at a loss for making recommendations. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/7 "2024-08-13T21:16:13Z")
Try this. https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLx0ySzk06-7idetPkr1KIe-QkmqBD6BCt&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1 ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/8 "2024-08-13T21:29:26Z")
The only appropriate workplace music is music that only you can hear. Once you have subjected an innocent bystander to your music, inappropriateness has begun. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/9 "2024-08-13T21:41:07Z")
[Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers / Live At The Fillmore 1997](https://www.pandora.com/artist/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers/live-at-the-fillmore-1997-deluxe/ALczzhtrnw6bPj2) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/10 "2024-08-13T21:45:15Z")
@bobot 2 above… By “innocent bystander” do you mean customer(s) or cow-orker(s)? If you’re working in a crew on a group effort, as the OP does, there’s a lot to be said for everyone hearing the same music, not 5 or 10 sets of different tunes and moods delivered into 5 or 10 sets of earbuds. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/11 "2024-08-13T21:51:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If you’re working in a crew on a group effort, as the OP does, there’s a lot to be said for everyone hearing the same music, not 5 or 10 sets of different tunes and moods delivered into 5 or 10 sets of earbuds. Of course 5 people all playing their own music would be cacophony, but good luck consenting on music for that number of people. I sometimes was forced to listen all day, day after day, to radio stations I hated, and it made my working days a living hell. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/12 "2024-08-13T21:51:12Z")
Making other people listen to music that you like is similar to making other people eat food that you yourself like. It’s not cool. If hearing music is part of the deal, then I boldly propose that the listeners be polled, and a genuine consensus be determined. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/13 "2024-08-13T22:04:14Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I sometimes was forced to listen all day, day after day, to radio stations I hated, and it made my working days a living hell. Amen. It can fucking blow enough that changing jobs enters as an option. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/14 "2024-08-13T22:23:52Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > cow-orker(s) Ok, this made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/15 "2024-08-13T22:28:32Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > then I boldly propose that the listeners be polled, and a genuine consensus be determined. You could get all your co-workers to tell you their top two or three favorite bands and put together a playlist with those. Everybody gets to hear something they like and may discover new favorites. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/16 "2024-08-13T22:37:15Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > You could get all your co-workers to tell you their top two or three favorite bands and put together a playlist with those. Everybody gets to hear something they like and may discover new favorites. That would work for a few days before it became repetitive. I wouldn’t even want to have my personal two or three favorites in heavy rotation for a few days, that’s boring. A better solution IMHO would only work if all coworkers were members of a music streaming service and compromised on playing each one’s “personal stream” or “random stream” (depending on service, it’s called differently, but I hope you know what I mean) alternately every day. That would bring much more variety. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/17 "2024-08-13T22:39:29Z")
I’m agreeing. If country is all that’s on I’ll leave a store, (seriously I’ve done it)piping it over their speakers. I like a bit of country. Not much. I’m a Merle Girl, but that’s about all I can take. To have to stay and work in it is clearly grounds for quitting. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/18 "2024-08-13T22:55:36Z")
its not exactly my cup of tea, but Cher’s - Believe album is a great up-beat synth-disco easy-going flower-power workplace music. My wifey loves it so I have it on the cel. give it a try - YT will def. have the whole thing … also Beatles red and blue album and then all kinds of Best of albums from Elton John, Billy Joel, Blondie, The Who, Rod Stewart… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/19 "2024-08-13T23:34:04Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Ok, this made me laugh. It’s been an SDMB cliché since about 2001. And is often derided for its monstrous non-creativity and collective overuse dating back decades. Just like me. 😉 > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > alternately every day. That would bring much more variety. AIUI the OP and her crew of a half-dozen-ish folks have settled on rotating so that each person has total charge of the communal music for one shift, then somebody else gets control tomorrow. And so it goes around the room. Seems to me to be about as varietogenic as can be done with only a few people. Other than simply putting e.g. Spotify on “shuffle the entire 25M song collection” and letting it play until the year 4545 with no repeats. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669/20 "2024-08-14T01:36:51Z")
Look for “Workout Music” playlists. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plz-recommend-upbeat-workplace-appr-music/1005669.md?page=2)