Metal head: Ironing aficionado’s top ironing tunes

You’ve read what the Brooklyn Paper irons to, but what does a true connoisseur listen to while smoothing rumpled linen? James Hook — who will iron other people’s laundry for free at Pete’s Candy Store every Tuesday night in July — says you’d be hard pressed to find a better ironing soundtrack than this.

“Maggot Brain” by Funkadelic

“Mustt Mustt” by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

“Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield

The entire album “Surrender to the Night” by Trans Am

Philosopher Alan Watts