Playing songs while making your Game

[Mariotroid]

I was pretty heavy into development of Super Mario Holidays. I had a break up. So my ex girlfriend busted my old good computer a couple years ago. Luckily I still had the game file. I then needed to use an older, shittier computer for my Game Dev. This computer had no sound. So I was developing Mario Holidays without a sound card. This made things tough and I obviously couldn't use a nice game track for the level I was making. This kind of caused me to look at the level a bit blandly. I think I'll find a good track for the level now though. I got a new nice computer (which obviously has sound).

I'm wondering if music really does liven up a game? I think it does. Not just the game itself, but it's development. Then again, I hated the last level I made and it had good sound. Hmm.
I guess my conclusion is that music does help in development but it's also not essential if you're listening to music on another device.