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Love Genesis myself, anything up to and including the album 'Duke' is just fine by me. However I'm getting into King Crimson (particularly 'I Talk to the Wind') thanks to recommendations from my 19 year old nephew!
On the Classical side, may I add a Pie Jesu for your delectation?
 
I find music or radio distracting when working. However fired up Spotify whilst clearing out the shed and the first track was oh bandage, up yours by xray specs. Which resulted in going down the rabbit hole of 70s Punk.
 
I don't know if I should be embarrassed by my choices after seeing some of the excellent samples above. I love all music except Rap (it has a silent C to me). 99% of the time I will be listening to an audiobook but sometimes the book finishes near the end of the day and it's not worth starting a new one so I might put some music on. So the ones that will stop me from concentrating I can think of are Firestarter by The Prodigy, Channel Four's original version of the Big Brother theme by Element Four and Binary Finary - 1999.

 
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@Doris I love Genesis. I grew up with their music as they were my elder brother's favourite band.

For me the "Can't do woodwork and listen" Genesis track is Blood on the Rooftops from the Wind and Wuthering album:



The Steve Hackett (who wrote the tack and whose guitar playing is so integral to the original) post-Gensis version is great too:

 
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I don't know if I should be embarrassed by my choices after seeing some of the excellent samples above. I love all music except Rap (it has a silent C to me). 99% of the time I will be listening to an audiobook but sometimes the book finishes near the end of the day and it's not worth starting a new one so I might put some music on. So the ones that will stop me from concentrating I can think of are Firestarter by The Prodigy, Channel Four's original version of the Big Brother theme by Element Four and Binary Finary - 1999.
Those are great choices. Firestarter is fabulous. I don't know the Big Brother theme.

As for Rap - I was very much of the same opinion, but I'm mellowing. I now even own an rap album ... and it qualifies as I don't think I could safely do woodwork while listening:

 
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