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Currently trying to type a bunch of essays in as little time as possible (i can procrastinate for england)... I made a minidisc and put it on random play, the idea is tat it gets you in the working mood without being too obstrusive so you can't concentrate. Here are some tracks:

Boards of Canada: Those short interludes of the album and Beatiful Place in the Country CiM: Cloud Cover MDK: a couple of shorter tracks from the Open Transport album Grieg: some piano interludes cell: six quid for sick squid Savath and Savalas: Journeys Home Aphex Twin: IZ-US, SAWII track3 CD1 Plone: Bibi Plone TLS: It's not the worst i've ever looked, just the most i've cared Beastie Boys: Ricky's Theme Smashing Pumpkins: 1979 Orbital: Dwr Budr some Mozart Lemon Jelly: Come

Anything else you guys'd suggest?

― dog latin, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to alwasys study to My Bloody Valentine's "Isn't Anything". It's great.

― Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to study to Mellon Collie by Smashing Pumpkins, Built to Spill's Perfect From Now On is also good, as is the Olivia Tremor Controls first album. Basically, I go for anything that lasts a long time and is slightly theraputic. I should imagine Kraftwerk is also good study music!

― james edmund L, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My latest favourite for anything that involves work is Japancakes...long instrumental pieces that get into a groove and stay there. Maybe not so great for active listening, but anything that requires non-intrusive but good music, it's tops.

― Sean Carruthers, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I once worked 36 hours solid on a dissertation I had forgotten to write and kept myself awake with coffee, caffeine pills and T-Rex’s 'Electric Warrior' on permanent rotation for the entire period. The essay got done but it's only now a decade later that I can listen to that album and not feel dead on my feet.

― Guy, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, no. The point is to never make up your mind about what you want to listen to and keep changing cds; that way you have an excuse to procrastinate.

― Nicole, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's all i've been doing over the last week (oh and writing pointless bollocks on the internet of course.

http://www.tefosav.co.uk

― dog latin, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THE SPIRIT OF EDEN by Talk Talk or CHILL OUT by The KLF

― alex in nyc, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll study to pretty much anything, though I may want something in particular instead of something else at any given moment. So I'm no good for suggestians I fear.

― Josh, Tuesday, 24 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i love music can you give me new song pl

― ankur sharma, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

Revive...

I'm planning for my revision for my exams this summer (instead of actually doing the revision), and I thought that it might be nice to revise while listening to some jazz (how instrumental music is supposed to be good for your brain etc). It's also a good chance to explore jazz, something I've been meaning to do for a while anyway, so any recommendations?

I'm going to start with A Kind of Blue by Miles Davis i think.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

kind of blue--good.

I also like:
Labradford (anything)
Aphex Twin (either selected ambient works)
muziq-Royal Astronomy

― cybele (cybele), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles has always served me well.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to listen to all sorts of things and then when taking tests sing the songs in my head and the association helped me remember what i had studied.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The Books - The Lemon of Pink
Air - Moon Safari
Broadcast - Haha Sound
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Low - Trust

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm studying right now to the dulcet noise of... xinlisupreme.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a couple albums I like to study to... Miles Davis - Sketches of
Spain, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Greatest Hits, Four Tet - Rounds...
John Cage's Empty Words and Allen Ginsberg readings are good, too.

― stephen morris, Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

anything by Merzbow

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraftwerk makes me more efficient....Neu! is good for work/study as well.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I really get a lot of study done listening to fennesz and stuff like that. But please don't take that as a recommendation. More a sign of my oddities.

― ___ (___), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I do most of listening while studying, so it could be anything. Today it was "Blonde On Blonde" by Bob Dylan.

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I do most of my listening

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i found out last night that steely dan makes great paper-writing music, contrary to what i would've believed.

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 23 February 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

queue up the entirety of la monte young's the well-tuned piano (five discs, five hours)... you won't be disappointed.

― fauxhemian, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago)

if you can do your homework and listen to an album at the same time it's not a good album.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

i just spent the last fruitless four hours proving that afrobeat is NOT conducive to writing 20-page papers on nineteenth century physicists. 'third/sister lovers' and the replacement's 'tim' worked pretty well. any other recommendations?

― matlewis, Monday, 11 April 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

this Rythm and sound or this one or that one is always the answer!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Wow, dog latin, I didn't realize you had been around longer than me.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 11 April 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

I personally can't study to basically ANY music. I've tried and tried, but if it isn't some kind of white noise then it's too distracting for me. I'd much rather listen to sound of traffic turned up in volume than to e.g. classical music. And constant noise works much better than absolute silence, because with absolute silence, you notice every little noise that's made.

I was once in a study lounge by myself some years back, and three people came in and sat down and proceeded to converse very loudly. But they were speaking a language I couldn't understand at all, and I actually was able to study better then when I was alone.

― Lingbertt, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

This thread could be my life.

I think these are my staples when it's clutch time:

Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack Johnson
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Bjork - Vespertine

And Beethoven's 9th and 5th when the damn paper is due in two hours and I only have two pages. Makes you feel like Satan's whipping you.

My new favorite is Ariel's Pink's Worn Copy, though. Fantastic. It's also, incidentally, the best damn thing I've heard all year.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i've got a few more Kraftwerk albums on order, so I think they'll be tested out over the next couple of months.

So far I've just been listening to the radio, it saves having to remember to change the discs after an hour.

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

The worst is when someone comes into the area where you're studying speaking a language you sort of understand...that is SO distracting.

I like simple classical pieces...simple meaning not large ensembles. The Goldberg Variations, both of Gould's recordings, are in heavy study rotation right now. Some string quartets are fun too.

It certainly cannot be any type of music that I can even come close to playing. SO distracting...

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

I spent most of my final year in college studying to Tortoise's TNT. So great.

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Saturday, 18 March 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Same here, baaderonix.

I can't even begin to focus on reading if there are vocals. I can write to vocal music sometimes, generally when writing about it, though.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Saturday, 18 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

six years pass...

Quite fancy reviving this...

What do people work/write/study to at the moment? We still sticking with the Enos and Budds?

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Thursday, 25 October 2012 09:50 (twelve years ago)

LOL at 20 yo me & Minidiscs

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago)

I'm not a student, so I don't study, but I've found if I'm writing or doing some serious reading it's seriously impossible for me to concentrate on anything if there's music on.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:21 (twelve years ago)

I can still remember whole swathes of Othello when certain Mozart pieces get put on though.

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:22 (twelve years ago)

Because my ability to focus is akin to a moth's, anything that's fairly dynamically consistent and has no vocals, Loscil and Bioshpere work well.

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago)

I don't often listen to music when I'm doing heavy reading or studying, but when I do it's usually something like Steve Roach's Immersion : Two or Disintegration Loops I.

― mcro.tonl piltdown (Cliftonb), Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago)

Instrumental, rhythmically linear-as-possible, veering-towards-ambient techno. The Necks. Tangerine Dream.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 25 October 2012 11:12 (twelve years ago)

When I was studying for my exams in the early eighties, leading up to my O levels in 1985 (so now you know how old I am), I would revise and study exclusively to the first four Jean Michel Jarre albums, purely instrumental so I could concentrate on what I was reading, and rhythmically precise and melodic. The downside of this is that listening to the records now brings back memories of stressing about exams and suchlike.

― Rob M Revisited, Thursday, 25 October 2012 11:47 (twelve years ago)

i like to play amber by autechre when i do maths. good energy and flow, and peaceful at the same time.

― jumpskins, Thursday, 25 October 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago)

cant seem to listen to anything too emotional when doing anything with work.. although i suppose all music is an expression of emotion. dont mean to go off on that tangent but perhaps you know what i mean. sorry about double post..

― jumpskins, Thursday, 25 October 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago)

I have found the best stuff for me is early 90's ambient a la Woob's 1194,Global Communication's 76:14 and Pentamerous Metamorphosis, Seefeel's Quique, etc.

― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago)

Lately for me it's been Max Richter's Perfect Sense score.

― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Thursday, 25 October 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago)

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