What’s on your Jira playlist? Share your song recommendations! 🎶

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Sometimes, to do our best work, we need a little musical inspiration! Putting together the perfect playlist is an art, and can be a real motivator to get through the working day.

We’re creating a Community + Jira Spotify playlist, and we’re looking for your best recommendations to help curate it!

So, what song do you think sums up Jira for you? Maybe on your most productive days, Jira feels like smooth classical music. On the more challenging days, it could be a bit more heavy metal.

Please share your favourite (safe for work!) songs below, and we might add them to our playlist!

We can’t wait to read and hear your recommendations for our Jira playlist 🎶

[Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_]

Highway to hell

[Carlos]

Thunderstruck, AC/DC

[Anahit Sukiasyan]

‘Workin’ Day and Night’ by Michael Jackson, especially when I’m buried under tasks. 😂

And for smooth releases, ‘Here Comes the Sun’ by The Beatles. 🌞

I think ‘We Are the Champions’ is a mandatory addition to this playlist for all the Champions worldwide!🎶

[Janco Hoekstra]

A good suggestion is the Top 4000 (Radio 10 NL) we are currently listening to. These are the 4000 best songs according to the people in the Netherlands. A copy of the list in here:.TOP 4000 Radio 10 NL 
It can also help to pick your favorite song.

[Nikola Perisic]

• Skillet - Monster
• Eminem - Not afraid
• Tiesto - Business

[Antti Salo _Ambientia_]

• ORBIT CULTURE - Neural Collapse
• TURMION KÄTILÖT - Sano Kun Riittää

[Ahmet Kilic - T2T]

Brother Louie, Song by Modern Talking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp2qcCrdBLA

L'italiano, Toto Cutugno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYtdYslLY9I

[Brita Moorus]

Some recent favorites:

• Sure Thing - WIKSIM remix - Scammacist - https://open.spotify.com/track/25xwXe0ltT13r00fwDxfps?si=1e8bcee85f8d462d 
• Send My Love - Jend - https://open.spotify.com/track/5yzLD44eNrLTRhKvNxvyHE?si=1bd9b81aa9864a7e 
• Hot Line 84' - Moontalk - https://open.spotify.com/track/5eFULEN14vU43uXhHygeTn?si=9750d02140ac4aa9 

🎶

[Kythera]

I swear, music and playlists power almost everything I do. Community playlist?? HECK YEAH!!

Some of these are a little tongue-in-cheek because no matter how much we love something, there's always the moments that drive us absolutely bonkers. 😅

• "Treasure" - Jill Tracy
  
  • "You’re my treasure and my trouble
    You’re the serum and the struggle"
    • We love it, but sometimes...
• "Bad Habits" - Patty Gurdy
  • "My bad habits lead to late nights endin' alone
    Conversations with a stranger I barely know
    Swearin' this'll be the last but it probably won't"
    • Pulling all-nighters, "you want how many custom fields??", support tickets, swearing you're not gonna go through this frustration again but you darn well know better...
• "Lift It" - Endless Taverns
  • "A hammer alone is nothing until you lift it
    Steel is but a whisper until the forge has kissed it"
    • Jira is just another tool. It's what we do with it—what we build—that matters. Potential is just another raw material until we use it to create something.
• "The Chemical Worker's Song" - Jax the Bard, Skyfighter
  • "Been working rough, I've seen enough to make your stomach turn
    And it's go, boys, go
    They'll time your every breath"
    • Time tracking. 'Nuff said.
• "Higher" - Edenbridge
  
  • "Come and stay, make my day
    Take away the gray
    And set the wheels in motion
    ...
    Give a little try, give a little more try
    Never fall in line for a fleeting moment
    Be and end all, I am aiming high
    Climb a little higher"
    • Sheer determination. Striving. Never giving up.
• Honorable mention: "The Happy Worker" - Tori Amos - Alas, not on Spotify at present, but the first song that came to mind...
  
  • "Marching to the beat of a heart within me
    Hey ho, hey ho, we're off to work again
    Bells are ringing, we are singing, joyous in our industry
    I love my job, he loves his job, pull that lever, start the engine
    Pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button
    It's the perfect job"
• Personal flavor (for my fellow corporate goths and weirdos): 
  • "Leave My Grave Open" - Anders Manga
    • "From the depths I claw my way
      A specter rising come what may
      Feel my presence hear my call
      In this hour standing tall
      Leave my grave open let me out tonight
      In the depths of darkness I'll be your guide
      Leave my grave open I'll rise again"
      
      • For when someone needs troubleshooting before the coffee even hits the bottom of the mug, but like Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're their only hope. Even when you're a nocturnal creature forced to work diurnal hours. You have a job and a duty and you're gonna do it! 😜
  • "The Oxidizing Angel" - Blutengel
    • "In this dark and rainy night
      He comes out of the shadows
      He wants to finish what he began
      A thousand years ago"
      • ... Okay, look, spooky Frankenstein vibes and a killer beat.