So picture this, you are sitting down at your desk, loaded up your tutorial, terminal, editor and have muted all your slack channels, you are ready to go. But now you have to figure out something to listen to so you can tune out everyone in your open office, but what should you load up?
For me, I need something with no lyrics. I have a hard time concentrating and really being able to focus when I hear other words. So sometimes browsing on Amazon for a new playlist can be frustrating. EDM really is hit or miss, things that you don’t thing should have vocals end up having them. There needs to be a no-lyrics tag, some way to make focus playlists more searchable. Right now my go-to is Tycho, really anything by him. Although, today I was trying to listen to the Past is Prologue album but it kept on making me think that my streaming service was encountering some lag or other glitch, maybe this is just me? I also am a fan of Brian Eno, but sometimes you just want something more uptempo.
Any suggestions for good focus music?
Edit: Here's a Spotify playlist I have started with some suggestions, and my favs.
Follow-up (7/24/18): I forgot to mention Bolling: Suite for Cello and Jazz Piano Trio and Deus Ex soundtracks. Both have been in rotation lately, along with my all time favorite 2112 by Rush, and the Spirited Away soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi.
Top comments (13)
I always liked movie soundtracks for no-lyrics songs to listen to when coding. Some of my favourites are:
I love those too! Sometimes I can't do John Williams because I get too into his melodies, and sing along to Moosebutter's John Williams is the Man in my head. I haven't listened to Gladiator in forever, and I am adding it to my list now!
Lol that vid is brilliant!
I will leave my own bit:
For me best works instrumental stuff... i am with love to music from Kai Engel. Two tracks are not same and it is relaxing for me.
My other picks are:
Thanks for all the new suggestions! I haven't heard of any of these, and I now have a ton to work through :)
I lately been hearing videogame soundtracks. And some mixes in youtube like "the legend of zelda calm music"-like videos. They work extremelly good for me :)
Other thing that I also hear when I want no lyrics musics, is just go to classic music, mostly piano.
Or mix both by basically hearing piano covers of videogames but there you can hear all the piano covers of any song :) #ProTrick (?
Piano covers of videogame music is something I am going to look up now! That sounds awesome, I do like classical but sometimes I find it doesn't have enough going on in it to cover up other noise.
I also need music with good flow, but not TOO interesting to gain my attention. Anything with guitars will tug at my attention! A few random recommendations available on Spotify:
Thanks for the suggestions, I feel like I might need to do a playlist on Spotify trying out all of these :)
I also have a long form spotify playlist with the full albums of all the suggestions Longform No-Lyrics. A co-worker also suggested the Deus Ex soundtrack, and I really have been enjoying it.
Electronic is the best fit for me :) My likes on Deezer
But mostly I just hit play on Flow (Deezer personal suggestions playlist)
Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't heard of Deezer before and will check it out.
Is just like Spotify, but with a larger library.
And I prefer the Deezer recommendation algorithm than Spotify ones...