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Offices with stereos were the best. These were the LPs that somehow became infamous office plays, for better or for worse (and not always the same office, naturally)

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  • The first time I heard Liquid Swords it was from a recommendation from a music producer co-worker of mine who said "this album is the perfect album to code to, I guarantee it." AND HE WAS RIGHT. Many a late night crunch was soundtracked by this classic.

  • My first job in web in 96 or so and I sat directly next to the "pit" stereo, and a colleague was obsessed with Butter 08. Kept saying "please let me know if I'm overdoing it with this one" but nope. Kind of the peak of the Grand Royale sound if you ask me

  • A bunch of co-workers really loved bumping Doggystyle at my agency in 2002 or so. They eventually got reported to HR. Duh.

  • Black Star was huge and this is a no-brainer, if you weren't playing this in your office, then did you really live

  • One night, pulling a real late night to finish off a project at my other ad agency, I was the only one (or so I thought) on the floor so I filled the room with Champion Sound, and by the time it hit the title track, someone had came over from the complete other side of the building just to give the "ooooooo now that's nice" nod and sign to me

  • If you were a web designer, you entered the Focus Dimension by spinning Boards of Canada. It was required. They taught you to do it at CMU

  • The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society was the alternate from my producer friend, but let's be honest, every office has a Kinks phase at some point. For all the right reasons

  • Sure, I would endlessly work to Madvillany when it was released, but it probably shouldn't be up here, I did everything to Madvillany: I worked to it. I commuted to it. I brushed my teeth to it. I had laparoscopic surgery to it

  • At the time that Stereolab was up there with the leaders of the get-into-the-work-trance genre of office music, I recall some website give the best one-sentence review of their album ever which was "la la la la socialism la la la la"

  • With our office next door to Other Music, Brit Hop and Amyl House became one of THOSE albums. It spread by word of mouth. It intruded into every space. It filled every silence. Everyone on our floor eventually owned a copy, and it's possible we were the only people who ever owned a copy in the US, based on Other Music's reputation

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