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What's the best music to study with?



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Posted by iaberis, 27.01.2008 - 14:05
Every year when the exams start, I'm getting into a big dilemma... I don't know what to do when I study! Listen to music or not at all? Well sure it depends on the subject you're studying, but give me your opinions...

I wish I could have every possible genre in the options, but the options are limited, so I think that's the best way to put this poll...

Poll

When with a book in hands, what's the best music to listen to?

No music at all!
54
Melodic metal
31
Instrumental tracks of any genre
27
Extreme metal
25
Other - please define
21
Classical music...
20
Electronic / EBM / Ambient / Industrial
18
Rock or glam...
2
Hardcore / Metalcore
1

Total votes: 199
29.03.2008 - 20:43
Evil Chip
No music at all!. I need silence to concentrate.
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29.03.2008 - 23:18
Hellish Star
My studies are long over but in case: no music but take a break every two hours to play some pure metal
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29.03.2008 - 23:51
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Tage Westerlund
Written by Hellish Star on 29.03.2008 at 23:18

My studies are long over but in case: no music but take a break every two hours to play some pure metal

hahhaha werry long ago and those days wasnt a lot of possibilities
viny only

BTW what did you sudy?
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30.03.2008 - 00:02
Hellish Star
Written by Bad English on 29.03.2008 at 23:51

Written by Hellish Star on 29.03.2008 at 23:18

My studies are long over but in case: no music but take a break every two hours to play some pure metal

hahhaha werry long ago and those days wasnt a lot of possibilities
viny only

BTW what did you sudy?

In my youth I didn't actually study ... Metal was my life and I hated school so my parents obliged me to work....

I had a fantastic youth; Metal, girls and some more metal and girls... I worked as a dj in a metal pub so I didn't have time to study

After I was married I was more "mature" so I started my studies anuway (I already had a job)... I went to the university of Ghent to study criminology and I finished my studies in 1999...

Looking back to it: it's better to study when you're young; it was too hard to work, have children and study at the university at the same time...
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30.03.2008 - 00:05
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Hellish Star on 30.03.2008 at 00:02

Written by Bad English on 29.03.2008 at 23:51

Written by Hellish Star on 29.03.2008 at 23:18

My studies are long over but in case: no music but take a break every two hours to play some pure metal

hahhaha werry long ago and those days wasnt a lot of possibilities
viny only

BTW what did you sudy?

In my youth I didn't actually study ... Metal was my life and I hated school so my parents obliged me to work....

I had a fantastic youth; Metal, girls and some more metal and girls... I worked as a dj in a metal pub so I didn't have time to study

After I was married I was more "mature" so I started my studies anuway (I already had a job)... I went to the university of Ghent to study criminology and I finished my studies in 1999...

Hhaha good 'childhood' like my hehhehehe
criminalogy hehhe you shood help em rob a bank, metal store whit CD (like Cnadlemass guitarsist) and booze store and dont get busted
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30.03.2008 - 00:09
Southern Wind
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Written by Evil Chip on 29.03.2008 at 20:43

No music at all!. I need silence to concentrate.

Same here... unless it is something extremely minimalist, like some Corrupted stuff.
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30.03.2008 - 00:44
+{Jonas}+
I R Serious Cat
I think pretty much anything except classical music...
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30.03.2008 - 01:05
Nox Lux
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You guys should check out Boards Of Canada. Good stuff to study to. Or if you're building a website or doing something painstaking that can be tedious on the computer, you find yourself wanting basically what these guys can deliver through electronica. It is varied and will basically help keep you going. Some tracks are just interesting pockets of texture and mood within the album, while others are gloriously built-up instrumental anthems of reason, patience and unique mixtures of organic and digital samples as well as synthesized scapes and melodies.
Sometimes it's the stuff that's born of meditation, with beautiful sounding pads that progress and evolve on themselves while an innovative and stylish beat backs it up. Other times they strip it down to a children's style tune that's presented in a well-produced way, but with other things being introduced throughout the course of the song to add and change the character.

One thing that is always consistant, I've noticed, is how good the drums and percussion are. On every song they are organic as opposed to the flat techno sound that so many other electronica groups have [this group consists of just two stoners in Scotland (that's right, they're nothing to do with Canada) that sit in the same small space working tightly together shifting through sounds looking for something new and something to play with]. The drums also have a lot of rythm to them. Strangely hip hop, at other times strangely deep - low bass that seems buried underground and snare hits that you swear you could chew - but always fucking stylish sounding, with a breakbeat flavour which to metallers means: not those shit hectic drug music beats that the fucking dickhead football hooligan townies are listening to.

In short, imagine if Mr. Scruff or Lemon Jelly became fucking cool.

Recently though I would also blatantly go for Pelican - City Of Echoes. The problem would be that it's so fucking good I would keep getting distracted.

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06.04.2008 - 01:51
iaberis
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Opeth seems to be a good music to study with... Mostly their accoustic album Damnation, but the rest are fine too...
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06.04.2008 - 11:03
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by iaberis on 06.04.2008 at 01:51

Opeth seems to be a good music to study with... Mostly their accoustic album Damnation, but the rest are fine too...

For study Opeth ist good before exame whan you relaxing not study
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07.04.2008 - 02:38
iaberis
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Written by Bad English on 06.04.2008 at 11:03

Written by iaberis on 06.04.2008 at 01:51

Opeth seems to be a good music to study with... Mostly their accoustic album Damnation, but the rest are fine too...

For study Opeth ist good before exame whan you relaxing not study

yeah, but it's ok for studying too... at least for me...
i find their progressive music to keep me into what i read and not distract me..
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07.04.2008 - 11:22
Aei Ontos
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It is the best if I listen to music without lyrics or with lyrics that I cannot understand without the lyrics printed on the inlay(when I am not interested in the lyrics anyway).
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10.04.2008 - 08:38
Fhuesc
Without music, cuz if i like it, im not going to pay 100% attention to what im studying, and if i don't like it, im going to pay less attention, cuz all my attention, is going to be trying to shut down the music.
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10.04.2008 - 09:06
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Anaal Natharkh, the shieking atmosphere and violence music make me feel more concentrated and very vehement, that would help me more confident when dealing with study. Just realized that yesterday evening.
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21.07.2008 - 00:20
Necrogeddon
Born Too Late
i love listening to extreme metal when revising and doing assignments because it creates this feeling of movement around me, i hate it when everything is still and silent.
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22.07.2008 - 19:27
Hamird
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Written by [user id=5080] on 30.03.2008 at 00:09

Written by Evil Chip on 29.03.2008 at 20:43

No music at all!. I need silence to concentrate.

Same here... unless it is something extremely minimalist, like some Corrupted stuff.

Same here... The only music I can listen during studying is Mayhem. No other bands and music...
I don't know why but Mayhem don't disturb my concentration!
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22.07.2008 - 20:11
Conservationist
Written by Hellish Star on 29.03.2008 at 23:18

My studies are long over but in case: no music but take a break every two hours to play some pure metal

I agree. Studying with metal on means I have to divide attention between learning and enjoying music. I would rather just skip something else so I can listen to the metal!

In general, when I listen, I like to have nothing else going on, with the exception of fairly rote tasks like cooking, driving, sodomizing baby Christ...
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27.07.2008 - 14:53
Ernis
狼獾
This should be either something boring or something else....it depends on what you're studying and where and when and on the mood as well....
One should play something calm or something where the music is largely based on certain pattern or where all the tracks are more or less similar and/or even monotone.....
I wouldn't suggest playing something really really interesting...it'll take your attention away....but then again it always depends....
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27.07.2008 - 16:20
Elio
Red Nightmare
i am able to concentrate on studying while listening to all sort of metal music...and of course it is better to finish as soon as possible in order to rock!!
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28.07.2008 - 04:26
Kap'N Korrupt
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I was never able to concentrate while studying when I was in school to music...I can't concentrate with any noise...
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28.07.2008 - 13:22
Macedonia
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I dont listen any music while Im studying. Makes me very nervos.

BTW 9 people have voted for extreme metal.

Gorgoroth while studying maths.

Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!
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28.07.2008 - 16:26
Abattoir
Staff
I can listen any kind of music while I'm doing exercises or homeworks, but when I have to study behind the books, than the music doesn't go along...also the classical or calm music isn't apropriate for me also, cause I can easily fall a sleep in a moment, with the books in my hands
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28.07.2008 - 20:48
Kap'N Korrupt
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Well obviously listening to any kind of music while exercising isn't much of a problem because you're not concentrating on studying...
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30.07.2008 - 22:49
Sleep In Sorrow
Ghost Of The Sun
I like quiet instrumentals when studying, preferably atmospheric or acoustic. Nothing too startling or exciting, because it distracts too much. It's horrible trying to pay attention to, say, linguistics while an awesome solo or a catchy riff/chorus is playing.
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09.08.2008 - 18:08
Ravendark
No music at all, because then I can concentrate on my studies.
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10.08.2008 - 09:19
Oracle
Orcinus
I find that classical music is the best music to study with because its calming and i can concentrate better while listening to it.. if i listen to music with lyrics while studying i focus too much on listening to what they are singing in the song rather than what im doing. i can also listen to symphonic metal with operatic female vocals.
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10.08.2008 - 19:51
Visioneerie
Urban Monster
Studying with music in my ears isn't much of a good idea for me, because well, i listen to death metal let's say 80% of the time and i don't want to end up ripping my school papers. Although maybe if i would put some Pelican or Baroness it would'nt be to bad.

Anyways, listening to Necrophagist while reading Stephen King's 'Misery' worked hehe.
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12.08.2008 - 21:42
TheBigRossowski
I'm another person who really can't concentrate FULLY what I'm reading unless its quite. But classical music puts me in the state of mind and slowly drifts into the background. I couldn't ever read and listen to Gorgoroth because it would totally disrupt the author's vision that I'm trying to see!!!

You're definitely an awesome multi-tasker if you can read 'Beyond Good and Evil' and listen to extreme metal!

I like to listen to Secrets of the Moon when I draw though..
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14.08.2008 - 06:18
+{Jonas}+
I R Serious Cat
How can you study with classical music.... It makes me sleepy.
I have discovered I study better with electronica/EBM. Cause with metal it makes me sing along so I tend to start thinking of the lyrics. With electro I focus more on the music... It makes me think faster.
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14.08.2008 - 18:34
X-Ray Rod
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Written by +{Jonas}+ on 14.08.2008 at 06:18

How can you study with classical music.... It makes me sleepy.

Mmmm Matter of tastes I guess since I don't fell sleppy at all when I hear Classical music. Is just touching stuff for me. So I can't concentrate a lot since I'm sensitive with that kind of music.

I can use every style of music to study.
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