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A personal project: I've been working on trying to listen to more music recently. I've noticed that the more rockish-upbeat music I listen to, the more motivated I am to be productive, etc. I haven't actually quantified this with my journal, but I would be astonished (p=0.05) if it weren't statistically significant.
I created a pandora playlist seeded by some of the songs I have that work best for this, but it's been pretty hit or miss. Sometimes it's really upbeat, sometimes not. I recently downloaded Journey, which had a number of songs that were awesome for this purpose, but I'm starting to get tired of listening to them incessantly, which is a problem. Below are the songs I've found that work best for this, if anyone has recommendations for similar music (Particularly 60's-80's music that was before my time), they would be appreciated. All the Small Things (Blink 182), Any Way You Want It (Journey), Blue Collar Man (Styx), Born This Way (Lady Gaga), Burn Out Bright (Switchfoot), Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas), Come Sail Away (Styx), Dead or Alive (Journey), Don't stop Believin' (Journey), Godspeed (Anberlin), The Great Escape (Boys Like Girls), Nightmare (Eve 6), Pressing On (Relient K), Salvation (The Cranberries), Separate Ways (Journey), and Tubthumping (Chumbawamba).
Edit: I've edited this like 4 times for typos now. Sorry guys.
Things your list reminds me of:
Van Halen - Right Now
Queen - I Want It All
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Roll On Down The Highway
Bon Jovi - Livin On A Prayer
David Bowie - Modern Love
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
Heart - Crazy on You
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Europe - The Final Countdown
Some other favourites of mine:
Youngblood Brass Band - Brooklyn
Racer X - Technical Difficulties
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
K'naan - In The Beginning
The Clash - Revolution Rock
Chicago - In The Country
Coven - Wicked Woman
Biggie - Mo Money Mo Problems
Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Kool G Rap - My Life
Jay Sean - Down
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band - Jazz Police
Gogol Bordello - Undestructable
Les Charbonniers de L'Enfer - Le Vent Nous Portera
Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers
A. R. Rahman - Jai Ho
Barrage - Devil's Nightmare
Thanks!
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/brain-training/5G3uujOqdbI/_ocNSa2AYPEJ may be of interest to you.
The Cranberries, and the solo albums by their singer Dolores O'Riordan, are low-variance awesomeness; get the whole discography if you like what you've heard of them.
I do have their whole discography, and I do really like them. :-)
I haven't heard any of Dolores's solo music though.
I'm having difficulty finding any particularly 'positive emotion'-music in my collection! Based on what you posted and your responses to other suggestions, here are a few that may be worth checking out:
Bad Religion (solid pop-punk, three part vocal harmonies, highly intellectual to boot), Arctic Monkeys, At The Drive-In (highly charged, very energetic, somewhat anarchic), Ben Folds (modern piano rock, very rockin'), Blue Oyster Cult (not a million miles away from Journey), Kate Bush (80s singer with a unique voice). You probably won't like all of these, but some might be worthwhile.
As much as I love Arctic Monkeys, I wouldn't describe them as 'positive emotion.'
Nope, I didn't mean the post to imply that.
I've also had trouble getting Pandora to make good mood stations (or instrumental ones for when I'm doing language-heavy work, etc.). I've got a solution in mind but it'll be a while before my plate is clean enough to start that project, and it's not clear it'll be superior to existing techno. (Is that something you enjoy?)
I've been listening to a lot of Bulletproof and Little Talks recently while doing things. The second has a lot of nice features which work great as counterpoints to their voices, but would be way more energetic on their own.
So originally, I thought those were artist names, and I searched them in my Rhapsody account... and proceeded to get this. My model of all of Less Wrong instantly broke.
I can't say I get into techno too much. The closest that I actually like is is dance-pop music like Cascada. I'll check out those artists though, thanks.
If you like Cascada try Groove Coverage.