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Ulver48 
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 01:05 |
Greetings my friends
I am new to this forum, but I have been reading it since 2010. It took me a while I suppose. For those of you who are students or former students what prog or albums do you like to listen to while studying? For instance The Snow Goose works pretty well for me.
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dbeckton89
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 02:46 |
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I'd probably suggest no music at all if you're studying.
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mlkpad14
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 05:36 |
I listen to all sorts of music while studying!
I'd recommend A Trick Of The Tail (Genesis), Heavy Weather (Weather Report), and Planet Drum (Mickey Hart); but those are just great albums!
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 07:33 |
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If you can't bear not listening to anything while studying, I recommend the largely instrumental "Third".
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 09:22 |
Wow. There's prog fans still in school?  Or maybe some of you just study for the pure enjoyment of it.
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Meltdowner
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 09:36 |
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I think there's nothing more productive than Progressive Electronic. You can pick pretty much everything of the genre but Cosmic Ground III is a favourite with its constant fast sequencing.
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Quinino
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 09:53 |
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Softs by Soft Machine is a sure bet (you come back and tell us)
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Rednight
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 11:43 |
 dbeckton89 wrote:
I'd probably suggest no music at all if you're studying. |
Too right.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Barbu
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 12:18 |
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Schulze, Tangerine, Eno, Roach, Sylvian, Wyatt.
David Torn - Only Sky
Bjork - Medulla
NIN - Ghosts I-IV
Edited by Barbu - October 24 2017 at 12:25
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 13:20 |
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Ommadawn
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 14:08 |
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I do tend to find that if I am studying or reading generally these days, i prefer to do it in silence but anything constructive, creative or indulgent has to be backed with a varied and uplifting soundtrack!
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verslibre
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 15:38 |
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If you like electronic music (progressive or ambient), you can't go wrong with Vangelis' Soil Festivities or Tangerine Dream's Rubycon.
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 16:56 |
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I agree with Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield and even his Incantations album, which while not his best, tends to flow over you without affecting studies too much. Have you listened to Rob Reed's homages to early Oldfield - Sanctuary 1 and 2? Very good. Early Tangerine Dream is always good - Ricochet, for example. More up to date, I really like Steve Rothery's solo album - The Ghosts of Pripyat to chill out to.
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Dellinger
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 21:01 |
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I never listened to music while studying (or just reading, either)... it would distract me and I wouldn't pay attention to either. However, at a few times I found myself trying to study while neighbours had music on, I had to end up puting Enya to mask the noise I think... I didn't even know Prog back then... or at least not so well. In general, I guess ambient electronic would have worked just as fine. Or classical. However, while doing homework, I did love to put music. Math and similar subjects were perfect to do while listening to music.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 21:49 |
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I would think ambient, jazz or classical would be good. Anything that is good as background music would probably be good.
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PhideauxFan
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 02:00 |
Memories Of Machines, No-Man, Nosound. 
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 15:15 |
verslibre wrote:
If you like electronic music (progressive or ambient), you can't go wrong with Vangelis' Soil Festivities or Tangerine Dream's Rubycon. |
despite what I said earlier, those two lps are excellent for reading or generally contemplating to.. I wrote a post ages ago saying how I used to read Michael Moorcock 'Elric' books whilst listening to 'Rubicon' on headphones when I was 14..
And Soil Festivities particularly the first side (first and second movement)is the the best music to make love to, particularly in a thunderstorm...  
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Harlequin_2017
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:38 |
I mostly like
instrumental when I study as I found lyrics to distracting if I like the song!
Mike Oldfield
(Ommadawn or Amarok).
Dellinger, I do too some time listen to Enya to mask my neighbors’ noise! I was
also using Enya in mid-90's in high school to cover my family's noise... Now
that I went back to university, my old CD is back to work!
I also enjoy Sanctus, by the new band CIRKUS for the last review before midterm
exam and I'm little stressed out. Link to the full album: http://cirkus.bandcamp.com/album/wild-dogs
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Ulver48
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Posted: October 26 2017 at 07:54 |
I am used to listening to music while studying and that's why silence feels unnatural to me. But I use silence only when I really can't understand what I am reading.
I am gonna try Brian Eno, Robert Rich, Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream.
AFlowerKingCrimson, I am currently working on my MSc Thesis so I am not in high school anymore. But when I was in high school back at 2009, I was studying while listening to classic prog rock stuff ( Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull etc) .
Also check out The Pearl by Brian Eno and Harold Budd.
Please suggest more albums if you can. You guys are awesome.
Edited by Ulver48 - October 26 2017 at 07:58
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