Tunes of the All-Night Tool

Sep 29, 2008

Tunes of the All-Night Tool

Finishing up those last problem sets you've been working on all weekend can be lonely.

Fortunately, music can help. Which is why I'm taking 20 minutes off from working on genetics and thermodynamics to show you a few of the top hits on my playlist right now. Some of these are old favorites, others are recent recommendations by my friends. But they're all pretty good for helping me stay up. :)

Enjoy!

REM: King of Birds

Stars: Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

Coldplay: Viva La Vida

Snow Patrol: Run

Linkin Park: Numb

Goo Goo Dolls: Iris

Dragonforce: Through the Fire and the Flames

Mokoma: Takatalvi (Liz '11)

VNV Nation: Chrome (Kevin '10)

Venetian Snares: Szamár Madár (Cody Daniel '11)

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First!!!!

Posted by: anonymous on September 29, 2008

W00t second!

Posted by: 0 on September 29, 2008

Also, it is weird, now that I am a freshman, to actually SEE you around campus, which I do from time to time.

-Anonymous and non-stalker freshman

Posted by: 0 on September 29, 2008

And I thought I was the only one studying thermo at 4am. I like the music, was actually listening to rem when you posted. Good luck!

Posted by: Gerry on September 29, 2008

Haha. I'm going to say here the same thing that I told Paul when I said that I study to Dragonforce:

Dragonforce is the energy drink of music. It'll get you through the night, but you'll feel like crap afterwards.

Use at your own risk.

Posted by: Evan '10 on September 29, 2008

Awesome taste in music. I approve.
But can you really concentrate with Linkin Park pounding in your ears??

Posted by: Livvy on September 29, 2008

re: dragonforce: YES

Posted by: cristen on September 29, 2008

"When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire."

^_^

Posted by: Keri on September 29, 2008

Also, you should listen to the new Venetian Snares album. It's fantastic.

Posted by: Keri on September 29, 2008

Ah Venetian Snares, brilliant stuff. I used to listen to them years and years ago when I was into the whole noise for music thing, then I heard the album that's off and couldn't believe it was the same band. Always nice to see musicians who don't believe in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Posted by: FrancesO on September 29, 2008

@Gerry
You are definitely not the only one doing thermo at four in the morning. At all.

Posted by: Snively on September 29, 2008

@Paul
"Interesting!"
However,(i.e.according to me)The starting songs felt like they were designed to promote sleeping instead of helping you stay awake but the Takatalwi thing was crazy!!

So you listen to this stuff through an mp3 player or the PC? - how can you concentrate on your work?!
And a random thing: The topics available through OCW are they in order or something??

Posted by: Vaibhav on September 29, 2008

My study habits vary; sometimes I find it very helpful and not at all distracting to listen to music. Even loud music like Linkin Park or Dragonforc just fades into the background. At other times, I need absolute quiet.

It really depends on my mood.

@Vaibhav: Yes, the lectures and other materials available on OCW are all numbered according to how they were originally presented in that class.

Posted by: Paul on September 29, 2008

I personally bring out the showtunes. But I'm always playing showtunes. I did beat Dragonforce on Guitar Hero though.

(On medium. :D)

Posted by: Piper on September 29, 2008

Also I listen to many of these songs regularly but before a big chess tourney or even study/work time i tend to listen to classical.

For all nighters, I still dont listen to music (because of distraction reasons). So a can of monster goes mighty fine after a long night of programming in C++. {:

Posted by: Ehsan on September 29, 2008

Wow, we have oddly similar taste in music.

I'm afraid I don't study with music; I would stop paying attention to the work and would probably end up writing down song lyrics.

Posted by: Isabel ('13 hopeful) on September 29, 2008

One Republic would fit in well with your taste in music

Posted by: Brian on September 29, 2008

Hey Paul, what about one of your favorite songs: Final Countdown!! I absolutely love hearing that when I'm studying^__^.

Posted by: Jalpan Dave on September 30, 2008

Yay, Iris!

Posted by: 0 on September 30, 2008

I have a playlist called "Psetting Pop".

Posted by: Carla '11 on September 30, 2008

I also like to listen to really intense concertos. Those keep me awake.

Posted by: JWC '12 on October 2, 2008

amazing post! Seriously awesome. I <3 Coldplay and listen to Viva La Vida a million times a week.

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