I can't read a book and listen to music either.
I like to page through magazines while listening to noise.
When I work alone, I tend to listen to the more mellow side of classical and jazz. Stuff like Scriabin, Dvorák, Mahler, Liszt, Chet Baker, Mingus, Coltrane.
I don't like to hear music in elevators, shops, dentist/doctor waiting rooms or mobile phones in public.
For hard labor I normally listen to up-tempo music and in my car I want to get the feeling that I'm cruising.
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