Good Study Music?

Sueve

I am trying to write a 6 page paper on Jungian psychology, and im finding it hard to do without good study music. My two good study songs (Tounge n' Groove by Steve Kimock Band, and Ocean by the John Butler Trio) are incredibly old sounding to me now.

So instead of just working in silence, I decided to call upon the forces of PA to help me find more good study music, so if you know any good songs, just post the Song Name, and the Artist.

Muchos Gracias.

necroSYS

The Four Seasons - Vivaldi

Jersey Boys - Original Broadway Cast

Across the Universe - Soundtrack

Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails

Iruka

I do ambient music when I study, Lemon Jelly, Thievery Corp., Royskopp, amon tobin and such. If thats not your thing, It may not work, but it has a beat to keep you up, but not enough lyrics to be distracting.

Uncle Long

Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Sigur Ros.

Reckless

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Any Wes Montgomery

Lucky Cynic

I study to classical music. Usually sky.fm is a good free internet radio that has their "mostly classical" channel available all the time without many interruptions and sounds good enough to help drown out distracting sounds while culturing you.

Fibretip

i tend to stud to Iamrobotandproud and sigur ros

Brodo Faggins

Anything by Massive Attack and Café Del Mar.

The Batman Begins soundtrack makes studying feel EPIC, but not in a heartpumping way.

The Homeworld games have fantastic ambient soundtracks, look into those.

HalberdBlue

In my opinion any music you've listened to a billion times should be good. That way your brain is so used to it it will fade into the background and you won't feel the need to listen to the lyrics etc, which is why 99% of the time when I'm studying I'm listening to Bolt Thrower because pretty much every song they've made is quite embedded in my brain and I hardly even notice it. Death metal might not sound like good studying music, but I don't think the genre matters so much as familiarity. I also keep it at really low volume, maybe that helps. Thats my take on it.

Paper Tiger

For electronic stuff:

BT - This Binary Universe
Mylo - Destroy Rock and Roll
Late Night Alumni - Empty Streets

I find that HalberdBlue's advice is pretty spot on, though. Familiarity and low volume is pretty good for zoning into your work. Hope this helps.

edit: yeah, mine are actually full albums, too

Speakeasy

In addition to most of above:

This Will Destroy You: This Will Destroy You

Brian Eno: Ambient 1/Music for Airports or Ambient 2/The Plateaux of Mirror

Eluvium: Copia

M83: M83

Mum: Finally We are No One or Summer Make Good

Any Blue States album

The Album Leaf: Into the Blue Again

Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful Life

Air: Premiers Symptomes or the Virgin Suicides soundtrack

Dntel: Something Always Goes Wrong

Slowdive: Souvlaki

Any The Books album although it's very hit or miss with people

The 28 Days Later soundtrack works a little.

That's all I got for now.

e: Oh I completely disregarded what the OP said. These are albums, not songs. Sorry.

FirstComradeStalin

Uncle Long wrote: »

Sigur Ros

ChopperDave

In addition to some of the good suggestions of this post, I'm a pretty big fan of Animal Collective and Panda Bear as study music.

brandotheninjamaster

When it comes to me, I try to avoid anything fast paced (like: metal or rap). Just because with a fast beat I become more scatterbrained and take in less information.

Grundlestiltskin

I used to listen to videogame music while I studied. Mostly Final Fantasy VI and Crono Trigger.

BobCesca

Classical music is great for studying. I tend to go for some Beethoven.

Moop

For ambient stuff, I like Doof, Tristan, and Haujobb. Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, and Godspeed You Black Emperor are some of my favorite bands and those suggestions won't steer you wrong

Stabbity Style

The Cello Suites by Bach definitely. So very relaxing.

LewieP

Explosions in the Sky

Their album "The Rescue" is a free download.

I also listen to Massive Attack, M83, 65daysofstatic, Moby and TV on the Radio.

RNEMESiS42

I usually go into itunes and listen to the ambient radio station called "Limbik Frequencies." It's really smooth...good electronic background music. If I'm studying math, I usually listen to classical music. Then, when I take a test or something, I recall the music I was listening to and it sort of plays in the back of my mind, and it gets me in the math mode. Lately I've been listening to Mozart's Requiem every time I study math. It's a depressing collection of music, though, heh.

enderwiggin13

I listened to these albums all the time in college, and even now when I'm doing big projects at work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_Game_Concert

It's a 5 disc series of 5 concerts put on by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in the early 90s by Koichi Sugiyama and Yoko Kanno where they fully orchestrated 70-some NES/SNES themes. The discs are all but extinct now, but I have it backed up in 4 or 5 places in case of the apocalypse. Makes for perfect study music if you can find it.

limester816

For some reason, 80's really helps me: Phil Collins, a-ha, Tears For Fears, Survivor, Journey, Genesis...

But I also like ambient music: Massive Attack, Zero 7, as well as some trance like Thievery Corporation.

Hamju

Pretty much any of Satie's music.

Hamju

edit: argh double post

lsukalel

Final Fantasy X music, Stars from Montreal, Damien Rice, John Mayer, and movie soundtracks to legend of bagger vance and meet joe black

tugga

i find the doors are really good at making me get stuff done

Lucky Cynic

I would say also to check out some good Down-Tempo. If you like just general beats, cool stuff to just nod your head to etc. I'm really digging this Saru CD I recently bought. Just what I was looking for.

Dark Moon

"Music for Two" by Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer. Upright bass and banjo, two of the best players in the world, playing both original classical compositions and older pieces rewritten to be played by this duo. Amazing album, but also excellent study music. If you have the chance to snag the edition with the bonus DVD, definitely get it. Not great for studying, but a very enjoyable reward for a study session well done.