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Let’s Get Busy: Songs to Listen to While Making Things

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Phil Torrone, senior editor of MAKE and creative director for DIY site Adafruit, is a DIY guru and all-around good guy. So we had him give us good songs to listen to while building stuff.

He gave us a list of tunes chock full of productive, creative goodness. We posted the songlist and a video to get you started, but you can see the rest of the vids with commentary over on the Adafruit blog. (Photo courtesy of HSmade)


• Peter, Paul and Mary – “If I Had a Hammer”

• Daft Punk – “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”

• Kraftwerk – “Pocket Calculator”

• John Prine – “Grandpa Was a Carpenter”

• Madness – “Our House”

• Elton John – “Electricity”

• Kraftwerk – “The Robots”

• Starship – “We Built This City”

• Rufus Wainwright – “The Maker Makes”

• Radiohead – “House of Cards”

• ZZ Top – “Woke Up With Wood”

Listening Test: It’s music tech week at Gizmodo.

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