Funny, I am the exact opposite O_o I try to avoid anything I don't know, because then I concentrate on listening to it, which then is counter-productive. I do agree on the lyric-part however, though it depends on what I am doing. If it's writing something, I don't care if it's lyrics or not. Reading, no lyrics or no music, the talking distracts too much, etc etc.I find it hardest to concentrate when you get songs you want to sing along to. Therefore, if I'm listening to music while I'm studying, I want to listen to something without lyrics and hopefully something I don't know. I started listening to classical music because of it but I find myself anticipating the melody/thinking about how it pulls on heart strings now lol so that's no longer a great option.
we have basically the same taste in music.And for guidance of the kind of music i like:
-Arctic monkeys
-Arcade fire
-Strokes
-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
-Hot Hot Heat
-The Killers
yeah I'm going to go along with that side again and suggest Stars of the Lid. And then I'm going to take my advice and try it since I'm still trying to work through one of their albums.as Jackal suggested, post-rock can be good background music for studying/reading.
the only problem is, when they really get going, those bands can be pretty distracting as well.
try Brian Eno: Ambient I: Music For Airports and see if that does you right. if so, i can recommend a bunch of stuff in the same vein.
The "mozart music makes you smarter" fallacy is not true. There is not evidence for it. The only reason a paper remotely similar was allowed to be published was on the logic that music wakes children up, so woken up children pay more attention to learning. Music has not yet had any real scientific merit outside of personal preference.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37XWcqw-PNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v58mf-PB8as
Yanni and Mozart apparently make you smarter
lol i like this thread
This. (i mean jackal is rly fat)You will focus in and out of it, and you sometimes wont even remember it is on until it hits a huge forte and you are just like fuck yeah this is awesome.
great advice!I usually listen to music while working; that or a podcast. Lyrics don't really affect me, but I'd recommend slower, more spaced out songs. I'd say something like post-BSSM RHCP, songs such as Californication, Road Trippin' or Death of a Martian.
If you're looking for instrumentals, I'd go with Rush (following Jackal's advice on post-rock). Things like YYZ, La Villa Strangiato and Leave That Thing Alone, or maybe (non-instrumental) the 20:33 epic 2112.