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I think every single person should have a set of earphones with music running through them in their ears at all times, apart from when sleeping.

I am serious.

Music makes things so much cooler. Everything.

The question is, is it do-able?

I fail to see how music helps me when I'm trying to study for finals. In fact, it actually irritates me.

I fail to see how music helps me when I'm trying to study for finals. In fact, it actually irritates me.

Yeah....cant study and listen to music.

But,..AFTER studying...it helps a great deal to unwind....

I fail to see how music helps me when I'm trying to study for finals. In fact, it actually irritates me.

Not if you are listening to music without words.

In fact one of the teachers at my school told me that if you are listening to music (without lyrics) when you are studying, listening to the music again afterwards will help stimulate your memory, and can be quite effective.

The question is though, what type of music should we listen to?

I fail to see how music helps me when I'm trying to study for finals. In fact, it actually irritates me.
Yeah....cant study and listen to music.

But,..AFTER studying...it helps a great deal to unwind....
Not for me. It just makes me forget everything I studied for! :?

The question is though, what type of music should we listen to?

Anything which motivates you in a positive.

I fail to see how music helps me when I'm trying to study for finals. In fact, it actually irritates me.

Not if you are listening to music without words.

In fact one of the teachers at my school told me that if you are listening to music (without lyrics) when you are studying, listening to the music again afterwards will help stimulate your memory, and can be quite effective.

1) Did you try this yourself?
2) If this is true, what kind of music do you suggest?

I fail to see how music helps me when I'm trying to study for finals. In fact, it actually irritates me.

Not if you are listening to music without words.

In fact one of the teachers at my school told me that if you are listening to music (without lyrics) when you are studying, listening to the music again afterwards will help stimulate your memory, and can be quite effective.

1) Did you try this yourself?
2) If this is true, what kind of music do you suggest?

I'm guessing insturmental music and it would depend on the person.

I can't listen to music all the time.

For starters, it would piss my girlfriend off, and I do that enough unintentionally without doing it on purpose.

Two, I have to listen to the world around me--I'm a writer, and frankly, the conversations going on in my head aren't nearly as interesting as the ones I overhear on the train everyday. :lol:

That's a bit difficult since I like to sleep while it's peaceful and quiet.

I study/work best when I'm listening to music, especially instrumental music. I'm a big fan of video game music, so I have lots to choose from. (Course, classical music or music like Adiemus works too.)

In fact one of the teachers at my school told me that if you are listening to music (without lyrics) when you are studying, listening to the music again afterwards will help stimulate your memory, and can be quite effective.

At school my R.E. teacher thought that, so played us music in lessons. Now whenever I hear certain pieces of music, I'm reminded of R.E. lessons, which ruins an otherwise perfectly good piece of music.

I think every single person should have a set of earphones with music running through them in their ears at all times, apart from when sleeping.

Is the fact that excessive use of headphones leads to dramatic decreases in hearing in later life an intentional part of this scheme? - witness Pete Townshend: playing stupidly loud rock concerts did not hurt his ears one bit, but wearing listening to music through headphones for long periods of time did.

I fail to see how music helps me when I'm trying to study for finals. In fact, it actually irritates me.

Not if you are listening to music without words.

In fact one of the teachers at my school told me that if you are listening to music (without lyrics) when you are studying, listening to the music again afterwards will help stimulate your memory, and can be quite effective.

1) Did you try this yourself?
2) If this is true, what kind of music do you suggest?

I'm guessing insturmental music and it would depend on the person.

Studies have shown that this works best when using music from the barok era. Instrumental hardrock will definitely not do :lol:

I think every single person should have a set of earphones with music running through them in their ears at all times, apart from when sleeping.

Is the fact that excessive use of headphones leads to dramatic decreases in hearing in later life an intentional part of this scheme? - witness Pete Townshend: playing stupidly loud rock concerts did not hurt his ears one bit, but wearing listening to music through headphones for long periods of time did.

No.

Having Keith Moon put an explosive device in his drum kit, and detonating it on live TV is what made Pete Townsend go deaf.

Otherwise, Pete would still have much of his hearing.

- witness Pete Townshend: playing stupidly loud rock concerts did not hurt his ears one bit, but wearing listening to music through headphones for long periods of time did.

No.

Having Keith Moon put an explosive device in his drum kit, and detonating it on live TV is what made Pete Townsend go deaf.

Otherwise, Pete would still have much of his hearing.


This is not what Townshend has claimed in interviews. Several sources on the internet back me up on this one (but we all know how reliable they can be).

For example:
"Pete Townshend - "I have severe hearing damage. It's manifested itself as tinnitus, ringing in the ears at frequencies that I play guitar. It hurts, it's painful, and it's frustrating." Townshend is completely deaf in one ear from an explosion when Keith Moon blew up his drum set live on stage in the early 1960's and loud amps. He has tinnitus, resulting partly from the band's live gigs but mainly the deafening volume in which he and Entwistle used to listen to playbacks over the studio "cans." There are reports saying that he is unable even to hear his phone ring. The Sun newspaper reported Townshend said his hearing got worse after the band's recent US tour. Quote from Pete: "The recent return to touring and to me playing electric guitar - albeit more quietly than in the 1970s - led to further deterioration of my hearing," the 57-year-old said. "My right ear, which encounters my own edgy guitar and the machine gun strokes of the drums, has suffered badly. Luckily for me, I still have my left ear, which seems to be less @#%$ up. When I've worked solo in the past five years I've not used drums. This has meant I could play more quietly I think. With The Who, there is of course no way to play the old songs without drums. I've no idea what I can do about this. I am unable to perform with in-ear monitors. In fact, they increase the often unbearable tinnitus I suffer after shows."

http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/melody/73/tinnitus.html

I am aware that tinnitus is not hearing loss, as such, but the other issue is discussed here. In a somewhat confusing manner: is he totally deaf in one ear or not?

Another:

The Who's shows have often had an extraordinary decibel output. For a period of time during the 1970s, they were listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band in the world, though other bands have since taken the title. Townshend's partial deafness is well documented; popular legend has it that the members of the band suffered permanent hearing loss and tinnitus from their loud concerts, though Townshend maintains that the true cause was listening to the music at high volume through headphones. One story also claims that Townshend's hearing loss was the result of standing too close to an explosive Moon had placed in his drum kit and detonated at the conclusion of a performance on the Smothers Brothers variety show.

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/The_Who

Music is very important.

What an awesome idea.

Never to hear ths sounds of nature unaccompanied by music or the purity of silence again would be a sad, sad thing.

Question: does John Cage's 4'33" qualify as music in this instance?

Never to hear ths sounds of nature unaccompanied by music or the purity of silence again would be a sad, sad thing.

I could live without both. I usually do anyway *Cranks stereo up* :lol:

Never to hear ths sounds of nature unaccompanied by music or the purity of silence again would be a sad, sad thing.

Silence is the sound of death. A single eagle crying above the wilderness is nice though.

Question: does John Cage's 4'33" qualify as music in this instance?

Argh! Death! :wink:

Never to hear ths sounds of nature unaccompanied by music or the purity of silence again would be a sad, sad thing.

Silence is the sound of death. A single eagle crying above the wilderness is nice though.

Question: does John Cage's 4'33" qualify as music in this instance?

Argh! Death! :wink:

You do realise that the space between notes is as important as the notes themselves?

Actually, I can't listen to music for very long. Music stays way too long in my brain and annoys the heck out of me. The lyrics in most music post-80s are just crap. However,Classical and New Age are good to take a nap to.

Clearly someone hasn't read Faranheit 451 or Feed.

Need I bring up the example of Guy's wife?

But I love music.

Need I bring up the example of Guy's wife?


You need.

Edit: unless Guy's wife refers to the fireman's wife in Fahrenheit 451.

She was a woman whom always had these little earphones in her ears, in a culture where all books were burned, entire walls of the house were TV's, becoming walls of a different kind of the people, when the people were always at war and dying, and when you payed a man 35 dollars to pump out your wife's stomach after she tried to kill herself, then went on your marry way. She would never communicate to Guy, always lost in the noise in her ear. Then, she got burned to smithereens.

Yeah, I caught on to whom you were refering after I posted.

Music is very important.

W00T!

i think that somebody should invent like a chip that u can have surgically implanted in your brain. it would be like an MP3 player, but you can turn it on and off and change the songs and etc... mentally.

thad be sweet.

i think that somebody should invent like a chip that u can have surgically implanted in your brain. it would be like an MP3 player, but you can turn it on and off and change the songs and etc... mentally.

thad be sweet.
What if you were mentally defective? :shock:

well, to fcuking bad then huh?

Music makes things so much cooler.

Agreed, but nobody can stand to do something all the time without driving themselves certifiably insane.

I love music to death, and I abhor anyone or anything that gets in the way of that, but I recognize that there's no way I could stand to listen to music every single second of every single day of the rest of my life.

Anything which motivates you in a positive.

So, whatever we like then! :wink: