Best music to listen to in the office
It seems that most analysts/interns listen to some sort of music while staring at the computer screen all day. Couldn't survive without it.
What does everyone listen to while working? What helps you keep motivated and focused? Personally, I listen to a lot of house mix/techno on Pandora but tend to switch it up with jazz/rock/rap.
best music to listen to at work
You can make grinding through Mundane tasks easier with positive and upbeat music. The trick is playing music that you are familiar with. This way you tempo and tone of the song lifts you up without distracting you with lyrics.
Language-based activity such as writing or reading is different. Avoid music with lyrics when writing, reading, or absorbing new information. Music with a slower tempo is ideal.
Key Takeaways
- Use familiar music, downtempo music with no lyrics when doing language work. Use upbeat music when doing mundane work.
MIke Catania Chief Technology Officer at PromotionCode.org
“Familiar music, regardless of the style, directly affects the quality of tasks like these for the better.” In fact, the company saw a 24% decrease in input errors three months after adding music to the workplace, says Catania.
di.fm for the win.
"Oh the ladies ever tell you that you look like a fucking optical illusion" - Frank Slaughtery 25th Hour.
Lately I've been listening to The Bad Plus, and David Holmes.
Kanye West - Spaceship
Anything by Jack's Mannequin
I've been workin this graveshift and I ain't made shit I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly past the sky
2pac - All about you Twista - Hope
Anything that is upbeat and has a real beat to it.
supernova - kanye west
easy - neyo
Lots of Michael Jackson stuff recently. Imeem.com is the truth.
midwestbanker,
are you in IL, WI, IN, or OH?
At my elite boutique all the analysts are forced to listen to classical music. We once had some riffraff that turned on that ungodly rap music and were promptly laid off for being ungentlemanly .
That was actually a rule at my prep school during study hall; you could only listen to classical, as studies have shown it is the only music that has a positive correlation with learning.
cLOUDDEAD Deltron 3030 Dr. Octagon DOOM Madvillan Quasimoto ... intelligent hip hop
lol @ "intelligent"
I know, seems oxymoronic but there are, actually, insightful and intelligent hip hop and rap songs.
One of my favorites is
Blanket by Urban Species Feat. Imogen Heap
...very poetic and well done. Too bad this style of music is hard to come by. Oddly enough, this song is featured in Jessica Biel's new movie where she's a stripper and is played in the club while she is busting out some naked striptease action, lol. Irony?
MJ right now.
David Guetta
And I generally just turn on Pandora
GrooveShark.com
the best
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/scubastza/Blog%20Stuff/musicthat…
LOL @ Lil' Wayne. Radiohead FTW.
What's the image of (can't view images at work)? Anything with Radiohead winning is, well, a win in my book. See them live.
It shows a correlation between SAT scores and music preferences. Basically, it shows that ignorant mainstream hip hop is bad.
SomaFM's GrooveSalad station is amazing for ambient beats/music. I used it all throughout college when cranking.
Sometimes, though, when it's 1:30 in the morning and I need to power through a few more turns, I will blast classic rock like it's no one's business
nirvana/ off spring......thrown in some nada surf
none
exclusively 80's and Michael Jackson
just kidding...
not to ruffle feathers but isn't Kanye majorly overrated? Find myself changing the station when his songs are on, like every 2 minutes somewhere. Also what is with the Black Eyed Peas? they are more annoying than Gaga. And that Jason Mraz song, was cool 50,000 plays back.
If I'm not doing something that requires a lot of thought or concentration, which to be honest anybody who has worked as an analyst knows is a very common occurrence, I actually listen to a lot of talk radio as it's quite interesting and helps you to feel like you are connecting with the outside world while stuck at your desk. Towards the end of the week I tend to also listen to a lot of livelier music and electronic music in prep for the wkend since that sort of stuff seems outta place on a monday afternoon.
What music do you jam to while financial modeling? (Originally Posted: 11/08/2011)
Just out of curiosity, what do you guys normally jam to when building financial models?
Im not a particular fan of techno, but ive found it to have a good ring when working on mindless excel tasks for hours.
I agree, no-words type of music works well...regardless I still don't know why the hell people like dubstep, guess I'm 'too old.' On that note, punk rock and reggae are my go-to.
www.grooveshark.com
[quote=Nefarious-]www.grooveshark.com[/quote]
Just discovered this site a couple days ago because of this post... +SB
Pandora - finally moving (James brown remix)
symphonic radio on pandora
neo tokyo - sleepyhead remix
MGMT v. Notorious BIG - Nasty Feel
www.themixingbowl.org
deadmau5
DJ Chus, John Digweed, Richie Hawtin, DJ Dan......
Might be off topic but I once sat next to a guy who jammed "Hustle Hard" every moment he was trading
Trance
Punk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1xCTXEOow&feature=related Reggae Hustle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6mqwhqyGZw WeirdAvicii -- Levels
yeah... this, or fade into darkness... or some guetta...
just peed my pants a little when i saw this. amazing. techno is good and to be honest classical is not an awful thing to listen to for a change-up.
strobe by deadmau5
Spotify
Fatboy Slim - Michael Jackson
huey lewis and the news
Pearl Jam . Danny Tenaglia Global Underground albums...
Fuck David Guetta
Kenny Chesney tho FTW
Avicii X David Guetta - Sunshine
Ghosts n Stuff will always be #1 for modeling though...
jay-z, can't listen to shit without words
http://www.youtube.com/embed/DmbdtbdBqI0
http://www.youtube.com/embed/SPqST0S22js
.
turntable.fm
STS9 - Scheme
Ludwig Lebrun - Oboe concerto No. 4....seriously who does any task while mind raping themselves with a techno beat.
Love STS9, but not when I am cranking. I like to listen to Biggie/Ludacris/Dre/ect while at work.
Groove Salad on SomaFM. I can't listen to radio stations that play any well known songs, etc because I dislike too many of them and I will focus on the lyrics instead of the work. Groove Salad keeps my mind engaged enough that it doesn't wander off while I am trying to be productive. Ambient music/beats for the win.
Regards
Definitely Avicii
I dubstep my balls off, shit helps you crank hard, but also do avicii etc. Hypem.com is the shit
quantic - time is the enemy
I listen to 'Shoot To Thrill' by AC/DC whenever I practice financial modeling. Awesome song.
Of course dubstep, the fuck are you guys thinking?
Also, this remix is pretty sick:
Sigur Ros Pandora Channel if I need to relax Chromeo Pandora Channel if I need to keep it moving
i dont do financial modelling but it would probably be The Weeknd, some classical music or some Duke Ellington
Childish Gambino
Spotify all day long
Almost nothing mentioned above is techno. It's all house / progressive house / electro house, etc... And it's all pretty awesome.
Avicii & Swedish House Mafia are killing it out there...so good.
I start out with something aggressive like Rick Ross/Lil Wayne when I'm spreading financials. When it comes to financial analysis, I'll switch to trance like Markus Shulz and then wind down with Radiohead. Its served me pretty well so far.
Justice -- Civilization
BBC essential mix..... AVICII, Calvin Harris, etc etc etc..... the mixes are 2-3 hours long.... can jam out for ages.
Finally man, waiting for someone to say essential mix.
Fuck Guetta.
Seems like a lot of people here are into insturmental, minimal lyrics when working.
What about:
Glitch Mob
Daft Punk
Cut Chemist
Blockhead
RjD2
Always thought this video was pretty great:
If you don't have this mixtape from Glitch Mob, you are seriously missing out:
This has also been a clutch go to when trying to study or get work done for like the past 5 years. Pretty amazing song by Aesop Rock. He made it for that nike product that hooks your shoes up to your iPod. The point of it is to lyrically capture a jog (the warm up, the middle part and the cool down).
phil collins for comps
whitesnake for accretion/dilution
rhcp
Funeral by Band of Horses (butch clancy remix) if u want a nice calming electro song
If you like Tiesto, he puts out a weekly hour long radio show podcast from Amsterdam. Combination of his songs, his mixes and other songs.
Tiesto Clublife: http://www.tiesto.com/clublife
Mumford & Sons.
The best thing to listen to when doing mindless work is porn audio. Nothing gets the blood flowing quite like that.
If any of you dig Indian classical music, this stuff is amazing
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheShrutibox
Avicii - Levels
download
http://hulkshare.com/myggogkoyh2h
For those that like EDM/house
www.mattdarey.com
Check out the Hard Rock Sofa and Morgan Page guest mixes to start
For those that like EDM/house
www.mattdarey.com
Check out the Hard Rock Sofa and Morgan Page guest mixes to start
Avicii and a bunch of ambiance
Listen to : Keep the Streets empty for me - Fever Ray (yunyx remix).wmv
ASOT
Dash Berlin
Music at work (Originally Posted: 03/28/2011)
Do you listen to music while working? I know it looks completely unprofessional, but honestly working in front of the computer all day needs just a little something extra. About half the analysts I work with do and half dont.
How much is that frowned upon where you work? And what are you listening to right now?
Pandora, all day every day.
depends on your group really
there are less professional things... I heard a story about a VP who had a World of Warcraft addiction hahaha and would play with the speaker/headset in his office.
Alot of neo-jazz at work. Keeps me calm so I don't have to put my hands on a bitch.
i listen to this good deep house stream on my ipod when im on the desk.... www.dogglounge.com
Best to use the headphone in only one year so you don't start humming or miss anything being said around you.
Analyst got fired about a year before I got to the bank for playing poker online. No idea how he got around the blockers, but a VP walked by and told him to come to his office. 10 minutes later his stuff was off his desk.
I remember one time getting so overloaded I took more adderall than I needed to, rolled up my sleeves and had the headphones in on full blast. I could see people walking by being like wtf is he doing. Didn't care, most productive day/night of my life.
Don't use headphones. If an MD is yelling at you from the hall you want to hear him. That said, we were allowed to listen to music after 7, nobody really cared.
An MD I worked with in the summer used to listen to 50 cent on his iPad all day everyday. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in banking, he'd randomly email me youtube links to new rap songs he'd find too.
Pandora and grooveshark all day. One headphone in. Currently I have hypnotize by biggie playing.
Music you prefer to listen to when you need to focus? (Originally Posted: 10/08/2012)
I tend to prefer a lot of instrumentals, I'm really big into jazz/funk hip hop samples (think Nujabes) and trance (Dash Berlin, A&B, etc.). If I need to get to work on an model at work, studying for CFA, or just doing homework, these are some of my go-to's, I could play them indefinitely on a loop, the only minor downside is that I've literally taken tests with these beats stuck in my head. Nothing more awkward than your GMAT proctor telling you to stop headbumping/foottapping in the test center...
http://www.youtube.com/embed/_qU2MXeAz1E
http://www.youtube.com/embed/uDSxJfbN3vs
Personally can't stand lyrics that stand out too much, I can usually just focus with trance vocals at the most, but rap/rock would completely throw me off track. Also I've tried classical before, but I ended up focusing too much on the music and not getting anything done. What do you guys normally listen to?
. . .
And I will gut anyone that posts Gangham style.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/yOz2akSL29E
SB for knowledge of Nujabes.
fratbeats.com homework mix is pretty good
Turn My Swag On - Soulja Boy Tell' Em
RIP
For me, no music promotes brain activity like good ole techno lol. I dont know many songs by name but bpm on sirius usually does the trick.
Agree with jazz/funk (incl some Jamiroquai a la Journey to Arnhemland), rythmic, soft and without lyrics. Also bossanova (e.g. toquinho), Gotan project/Thievery corporation and some classic music.
Can't live without music (unless Nicki Minaj or T-pain's in it). Great taste, OP.
trace w/ vocals is fine for me
Chopin
Anything with lyrics only distracts me, but I've been studying at Panera lately, and they have some nice classical/orchestra type music playing in the background over the speakers. I find this to be a nice stimulation without being distracting.
Heat of the Moment Final Count Down Africa by Toto That "Half way there" song Journey, obv LSO Rap
I am not joking.
Mayer Hawthorne Youngblood Brass Band (the call and response in Brookyln is awesome)
Nothing gets me more focused, whether to get laid or to do work, then EDM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_String_Quartet
I rock out to gangnam style. Shit is amazing for modeling
What's your favourite music to listen to when you're pulling an all-nighter? (Originally Posted: 03/11/2014)
Any particular go to songs that get you pumped when you're working those late (or early) hours?
We Drift Like Worried Fire- Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
It's a 20 minute instrumental song. Helps me to pass the time.
I'm digging Klingande right now - Jubel and Punga are both jams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfvBbI8qyEQ
Overwerk does it for me
Devin Townsend for me.
I like to listen to the full discography by Nujabes.
french montana radio on pandora. haannnn
SMoothh JAzzzz
Kvelertak - really gets the blood pumping.
Buffalo Killers - Get It
What I chose for my last all-nighter:
The Strokes- Is This It Moby- Play Kendrick Lamar - Section 80 MF Doom- Operation Doomsday 50 cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin' Eminem- The Eminent Show J Dilla- Donuts ATCQ - Midnight Marauders
Surprised there's no Radiohead in there.
blink 182 - adams song
That's such a depressing song. I really hope you're kidding.
game of thrones 2 minute intro on continuous loop
duran duran - wild boys
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Soul music, unless I'm at the office.
requiem for a dream on repeat. epic track.
What type of music do WSO monkeys like? (Originally Posted: 03/22/2013)
Does it vary across divisions?
This:
and whatever song was playing in the background during the Godfather baptism scene when those revenge-killings were going on.
generally, songs about ambition, success, not giving up, and getting revenge.
Lol can't figure out this video posting.
When I'm feeling mellow: stuff like Pearl Jam When it's go time: stuff like Metallica
Generally anything in this thread: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/all-time-greatest-rock-music
Mix in some Above & Beyond Anjunabeats from time to time, foreign music, merengue and other Latin music, Eminem, etc.
Well, occasionally I get away from listening to all of the Nickelback albums on repeat and go with something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98HX5nbsCI
Kap Slap is always a good listen, as well.
EDM (Calvin Harris station on Pandora) Indie (Sunshine Indie Pop on Songza) Epic Film Scores (Inception/Gladiator/Dark Knight Rises-based stations on Pandora)
This. Also, a lot of koto music, opera, classical, metal, electric and avant garde music. Philip glass, John Cage, Aphex twin, Mastodon, Rimski Korsakov come to mind. Also, nature sounds.
Everything that Pitchfork gives shitty ratings to
btbanker - Bravo! This song is greatness!
Hova! Hova!
When you got to meet that deadline, you can't go wrong with "Hard in Da Paint" by Waka Flocka Flame.
And don't you dare play the clean version...it takes away from the authenticity and beauty of this masterpiece.
sex music
You must be a trader. If you are a former Lehman Bro you might like Still Swinging.
Straight rap nigga !
Depends on the bank - Goldman is mostly klezmer, CS/UBS lots of Wagner, Citi has the Star Spangled Banner on repeat, BAML you mostly just hear rats drowning...
It's case by case
Not one mention of Led Zeppelin?
...insert "don't wanna live on this planet anymore" meme here
Gym: Lots of melodic death metal, heavy metal. Chillin: Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Muse, Pink Floyd just to name a couple.
I can't stand rap :|
You just dont know good rap. Check this out.
Except for Led Zeppelin and Beatles these seem like good bands to me. I did not know that there were other finance people who like Jimi Hendrix. ^^BTW do you like Punk?
Seriously?
Going to California
I've never really been into punk.
You seem to be implying that people should listen to music that coincides with the time period they have lived in. I would contend that such an implication has as much legitimacy as a steamy pile of poo.
Personally I think I would barely be able to come up with enough artists from the last 20 years that I still really like to fill fingers on both hands, at least compared to what came before.
white noise
I think anyone who listens to 'house music' or whatever outside of being shithammered or rolling should be made to live on a desert island filled with fist pumping hairy spanish dudes for the rest of their life.
"IBIZA IBIZA WEE JUS COME HERE TO PARTYYY"
I've also really enjoy themed album sets.
The Scarecrow Trilogy by Avantasia is phenomenal.
Fiona Apple, Laura Marling, Johnny Flynn, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, Joanna Newsom, Florence + The Machine, Springsteen, The Smiths.
Been really into The Lumineers and Alabama Shakes recently, too.
House music, club, ibiza, trance, electro
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