The Seven Best Classic Rock Songs To Code To

I think I'm more productive when I code and listen to music.

Here are my favorite rock songs to code by. I'm an old guy, so I like old stuff. If you like new stuff, tell me why it's better. Maybe I'll give it a listen.

1. AC/DC "Shoot to Thrill". Fast-moving ballad with a good chorus. Nice head-banging music when you're chasing down some bad CSS
   


2. Black Sabbath "Paranoid".Great guitar here! Love those blues overtones. Driving beat. This is cool stuff to crank out some stored procedures. Anything where you push a button and watch the computer upchuck a big hunk of burning code.
   


3. CCR "Travelin' Band".Get-a-long vocals on a going-somewhere beat. This is the stuff you want to do some GUI work with. Anything creative. This is great music to listen to if you have to work in an airport. Makes you want to look for geek groupies. Sadly, they never seem to appear.
   


4. George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers "Bad to the Bone".A totally bodacious song. Another song for creative, ego-driven work. This is a good song to be creating deployment bundles -- any job where a lot of mental work is coming together to be delivered to somebody. Something you can put a sticker on and call it your own. If you're bad to the bone, isn't it time you let others know?
   


5. Lynyrd Skynyrd. "Tuesday's Gone".Wonderful lingering vocals. This is music for class libraries. You've got the big model-from-the-sky, and you've got the IDE, now it's time to double-check the wires and the struts to see if this baby will fly. That train can roll on, down the line -- it's taking your baby to the big leagues.
   


6. R.E.M. "It's the End of the World as We Know It".This is good blogging music. Code commenting. Writing error messages. Hey. It might be the end of your computer experience, but I feel fine. Shouldn't you feel okay too?
   


7. Meatloaf. "Two out of Three ain't bad".This is the music for writing status reports. Has to be. We're on time, we're on schedule, but the budget sucks. Hey -- two outta three ain't bad, right? Baby we could talk all night, but that ain't getting us nowhere. We're over budget. Maybe it's time to listen to that error-reporting music some more.
   

No fair just saying something like "cause they rock!" If you got a better list, you got to explain your reasons.