Disclaimer:With any music thread, I hereby surrender my cool kid card and accept that everything I listen to is old and tired.
In the library, stacks of books are piled up beside me, and I’m listening to Pandora, which has a tendency to go sour from time to time and just give me garbage music unsuited to my mood. So I queued up my favorite rendition of Bach’s cello suites, the Fournier rendition, and was wondering what the BBS likes for this kind of thing. Me? Aside from various composers in the popular classical, dubstep and electronica also work well, and I really like The Glitch Mob. Almost anything without lyrics. Lyrics trip me up and force me to listen to the music much more actively unless they’re repetitive or in a language I don’t understand. But I’m curious what other people like for getting things done.
Lately, I’ve been listening to the “Tuvan music” station on iTunes radio. Lots of throat singing and other international music.
Last semester, I tended to listen to the tracks for my World Music course. That’s what led me to the Tuvan music.
I also listen to Jazz 24 and KUSC.
Hmmm, depends on my mood but for work Space Age Bachelor Pad stuff, Electronica on the EDM end of of things, and then there are jazz days, rock out days, etc. I have a terribly eclectic music library.
Studying, Mellower ambient sorts of electronic music, be-bop, cool jazz…
But really do you need anything else other than Esquivel?
I Like a lot of jazz and I find instrumental parts can be extremely lyric as well. There are jazz artists I can follow subconsciously, and others I can’t help but be fully invested in, to the point I’m not being “productive” anymore. (Sometimes I just go with it and throw one on anyway. Call it a break.)
Thelonious Monk often tilts back and forth between the 2 for me, I still feel I can get a lot done with him banging the keys in my head.
Don’t know that I can recommend it to anyone else, but once upon a time I found it really useful to listen to Snuffy Walden’s soundtrack to The Stand while writing. Somehow the mood was exactly what I needed.
For Dead Can Dance, disk 2 and 3 from the box set are studying magic for me.
Back in the stone age, I liked Pink Floyd’s Obscured by Clouds and Meddle, Projekt Records From Across this Grey Land compilations, Lycia (another Projeckt offering), and an assortment of classical pieces for studying.
Ever try throat singing? Getting good at it is tough, but getting random overtones is surprisingly easy. Plus, to start, you can annoy all your friends by yelling, “HHYYYYEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!”.
Kidding of course.
