<p>Reckoner by Radiohead is great for keeping me awake and focused.</p>
<p>i agree with fall out boy! Or go back to the oldies go to old britney stuff. Light fun pop vocals!</p>
<p>Probably Aphex Twin’s “Ventolin”</p>
<p>I like pop, but Britney is a little too distracting when I’m trying to do homework.
Worst songs for studying: Friday, S&M , Gangnam Style, Call Me Maybe… most mainstream pop doesn’t mix well with Lewis Structures, rhetorical analysis, and Poisson distributions.</p>
<p>I am most definitely a fan of rainforest music! SO TRANQUIL!!</p>
<p>Jay Park - JOAH
Clazziquai Project - Brown Gold Eyes</p>
<p>The “Study Music Project” has a phenomenal selection.</p>
<p>Hmmm, there’s this really good song called Silence by Mother Nature!</p>
<p>LOL, Just kidding. I like classical music to play in the background when I study though. Or, I search up a study playlist on Youtube and let it play.</p>
<p>Frankly, I cannot listen to music and concentrate. I become enthralled by the music and oblivious to anything else around me.</p>
<p>My advice, listen to music that you find mediocre. Too good, you will want to just listen. Bad music is distracting. (Good/bad are completely subjective of course).</p>
<p>If you want the perfect medium between mainstream and classical, Vitamin String Quartet does covers of well-known songs that are amazing. They seriously have covers of almost anything you can think of, from any decade.</p>
<p>
John Cage has a remix of that called 4’33".</p>
<p>Honestly, Shakira keeps me really focused when I’m studying. Except for spanish, if I try to study for Spanish while one of her spanish songs is playing, it is a mess.</p>
<p>the weird vibrating sounds really help, but yiruma is great too</p>
<p>Any songs from Nujabes or Onra</p>
<p>^^ I second that comment, Aruarian dance for the win</p>
<p>Friend of mine wrote an article on this recently, perhaps his recommendations might be of use :P</p>
<p>[Editor’s</a> Choice - Great Songs to Study To: Playlist Two](<a href=“http://owlcove.sg/article/editors-choice-great-songs-to-study-to-playlist-two]Editor’s”>http://owlcove.sg/article/editors-choice-great-songs-to-study-to-playlist-two)</p>
<p>Not sure whether you are into it but I usually go to youtube and listen to some mixes(dubstep/trance/hardstyle/classical)
Personally I find when listening to songs with lyrics, I get a bit distracted as the lyrics coincide with the information I am trying to remember.</p>
<p>passion pit is the best for a large amount of easy homework, makes me work super fast but not very efficient</p>
<p>when I have to study, nothing. When doing routine homework, lyrics are fine, hard homework I can’t have lyrics. Writing papers is usually what keeps me up late, I end up listening to electronic music or metal usually. The later it gets the harder and faster it gets. Until eventually I’m not listening to music I even like any more, it’s just loud, harsh background noise that I can’t fall asleep to. works for me.</p>