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Hi fellow premeds! If there’s one thing that helps me get through the day, relieve stress, give me ‘inspiration’/encouragement/energy-surges for studying for exams or day-dreaming images of some future premed-success (getting a good MCAT score, getting into med school, becoming a good doc, winning the nobel prize! 🙄 etc.) it’s listening to some awesome music 👍 . Some songs have inspirational lyrics, or some may have just the right musical blend of melody, harmony, chords, rhythm, tempo, and whatnot that somehow has this profound positive emotional effect; it may be a fiddy-cent/eminem rap, or an ‘old rock hit for that matter…:laugh:

Is there any music that inspires you, or helps you get through tough times in your premed careers…? Is there any music that just helps ‘part the clouds’ and lets a little bit of sunshine your way…? Is there any music that just makes you wanna dance, helps you channel out your anger, stress etc…?

Let’s all build a premed-music list for all of us to share and enjoy! 🙂

Here’s a starter:-

Pre-final/exam/MCAT prep: “It’s the Final Countdown…” –Europe!
 
Anything by Flock of Seagulls
 
One Is the Loneliest Number -- Three Dog Night
Downtown -- Petula Clark
Barbie Girl -- Aqua
Habibi -- Amr Diab
 
10,000 Maniacs: "MTV Unplugged"--I can listen this disc anytime, anywhere
2Pac: "Changes" and "California Love"
Dropkick Murphys: "Live On St. Patrick's Day"
The Rocky IV soundtrack: I've never found better tunes for the gym
Bond: "Born" and "Shine"--good study tunes
Bad Haggis: "Trip", "Ark", and to a lesser degree "Wine Dark Sea"--they're a groovy bunch of dudes and the piping is spectacular
 
Inspired by Instigata:

2Pac, "Ghetto Gospel" and "Thug Mansion."
 
Hero, Lookin for u & Imagine me by Kirk Franklin
Could've been me by Kirk/ J. Moss & Tye Tribett
 
Somebody kill me please - Adam Sandler
 
"Reflecting Light- Sam Phillips
"23" Jimmy Eat World
"Grey Sky Morning" -Vertical Horizon
"I Hope, I think, I know" -Oasis
"Run", "Set Fire To the Third Bar" -Snow Patrol
 
Looking 4 u- Kirk Franklin
Don't pray and worry- J. Moss
 
Radiohead - "Let Down"
 
For the Spanish-speaking out there...I love La Oreja de Van Gogh.
 
Anything from...

Alicia Keyes, India Arie, Jack Johnson, Nelly Furtado 😍
 
Jane Fonda - Mickey Avalon
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Diamonds From Sierra Leone - Kanye
Since You've Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Also almost anything they use in HBO's Entourage...whoever picks the tracks for them is amazing.
 
Jem's "They" if you're frustrated with adcoms,
Kate Havnevick's "Nowhere Warm" if you're feeling discouraged
and Guster's "Happy Frappy" or 5.6.7.8.'s "Woo Hoo" when celebrating.

(Use myspace to look them up and listen)
 
Welcome to My Life (by Simple Plan)

It describes how I felt a lot of times during the application process.
 
Opus -- Life is Live

And anything by Yo-Yo Ma.
 
Some of sings picked from my current playlist:

Shiny Toy Guns - "Le Disko", "You are the one"
PartyBen (from Best of Bootie CD) - "ComputerTalk" (mashup of Coldplay's Talk and Kraftwerk)
JimmiJames (from Best of Bootie CD) - Sgt. Pepper's Paradise (mashup of Beatles and Guns 'N Roses)
==>available for download here www.bootiesf.com/bestofbootie_2005
Lupe Fiasco - "He Say She Say", "Sunshine", "...blah, I'm tired of writing.

enjoy
 
"where eagles dare" - The Misfits

"viva la revolution" - The adicts

"It's Gray" - TSOL

"Mad World" -Gary Jules (remake)

Anything by The Roots or Motorhead.

man this list could be a 1000 songs long
 
inspiration? encouragement?

joe esposito - you're the best
say anything - admit it!!!
muse - blackout
toots and the maytals - pressure drop
 
Wagon Wheel and Tell it to me by The Old Crow Medicine Show
 
Though corny... my FAVORITE song of all time -

"Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve

I'll post more later.
 
No one down with classical?

Beethoven, Piano and Cello sonate in A played only by Ma and Ax.
Beethoven all piano sonates
Rachmaninoff's variations on a theme by paganini op.43
Mozart Requiem

Plenty more, but that's all on my playlist atm.
 
I like to listen to anything by Kenny Chesney...his songs are so relaxing and keep me calm when it's crunch time!
 
Wow, I don't think anyone listens to the stuff I listen to. I don't know about inspirational or encouraging but "Mandy Goes to Med School" by the Dresden Dolls mentions our future career and is pretty funny. That counts right?
 
Linkin Park:
- papercut
- crawling
- entire "reanimation" cd
- numb
- easier to run

Eminem:
- lose yourself
- never enough

of course, there's always these: Norah Jones, Coldplay, Jurassic 5

and anything by Kathim Sahir, Şîvan Perwer, Mazhar Xalaqi, and other foreign stuffs...
 
"how it ends," "dearly departed" - devotchka
"postcard from italy" - beirut
 
The entirety of "Faith" by The Cure.
 
Collective Soul - Shine
Eric Clapton - Change the World
Incubus - Drive
Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky, Jessica
Motion City Soundtrack - The Future Freaks Me Out
Beatles - In My Life
 
degoo_ said:
No one down with classical?

Beethoven, Piano and Cello sonate in A played only by Ma and Ax.
Beethoven all piano sonates
Rachmaninoff's variations on a theme by paganini op.43
Mozart Requiem

Plenty more, but that's all on my playlist atm.
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I am, and I'm also an opera fan (mostly Puccini/Verdi before any of the German composers). Apparently Mrs. JV's great-grandfather was a fairly good singer a few years ago. I've got a few of his CD's and until we started dating, I didn't realize that she was related to him.
 
Oasis is awsome my two favorite songs

Little by Little

and Cast No Shadow (Live at Knebworth 96) <--- this version of the song made me get teary eyed once...


lots of feel good stuff by a great band!
 
degoo_ said:
No one down with classical?

Beethoven, Piano and Cello sonate in A played only by Ma and Ax.
Beethoven all piano sonates
Rachmaninoff's variations on a theme by paganini op.43
Mozart Requiem

Plenty more, but that's all on my playlist atm.
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Oh, don't worry...I have an absolute TON of classical! Best music to study with: The 5 Browns (amazing piano playing!), Rimksy-Korsakov (Scheherazade is gorgeous), Aaron Copeland (if your in an American-composer mood 😉), and Yo-Yo Ma (you can't go wrong there!).
 
So if i ever perform surgery on someone and I get to pick the music that is being listened to, I would def. pick Broken Social Scene's Feels Good Lost, that'd be some good music to cut into someone to.
 
mike jones

also

Elliott Smith, lupe fiasco, john butler trio, dave, otis redding, sublime, radiohead, sigur ros, sufjan, bright eyes

and tech n9ne, bout ta bubble is worth a laugh or two on youtube
 
VegaJaxx said:
Wagon Wheel and Tell it to me by The Old Crow Medicine Show
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👍
wagon wheel's got a minor mythic backstory to it . . . falsely purportedly a cover of an old dylan song that never got sung in the first place?

it fits nicely with the jayhawks' "blue."
 
akademix said:
some sublime
biggie- juicy, skys the limit, dead wrong, who shot ya, notorious thugs
pun- beware
big l- anything off the big picture
jay- anything from reasonable doubt
pac- starin through my rearview, keep ya head up, i aint mad at ya, thug luv
bone thugs- first of the month
youngbloodz- damn
outkast- spotieotiedopalicious, da art of storytellin part 1, return of the g, elevators, ATLiens etc, bombs over baghdad
eminem- if i had a million dollars,
dre- the chronic
nas- ny state of mind, doo rags, the message
krs1- step into a world, kristyles
big daddy kane- taste of chocolate, smooth operator
kool g rap- anythin he did with primo
gangstarr- and all primo beats
game- west side story, still cruisin, old english,
eric b and rakim- paid in full the song and album
long list, but ABSTIVELY POSILUTELY NO EMO RAP OR EMO in general
but yeah those are all the songs/artists i bump in my headphones and speakers when im studyin or chillin
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you're from philly, but no roots?
 
I am a big fan of the industrial music genre. So most of my music is either classified as industrial, electronica, metal, or a combination of all the above. My favorite songs would have to be:

PIG - Arbor Vitate
PIG - No One Gets Out Of Her Alive
PIG - Blades
PIG - Kundalini
PIG - Filth Healer
PIG - God Rod
PIG - Sin, Sex, Salvation
PIG - The Seven Veils
PIG - Infinite Power
PIG - *****
PIG - Prayer, Praise & Profit
PIG - A Fate Worse Than Death
PIG - Paniac
PIG - The Sick
PIG - Prime Evil
PIG - War Pigs
PIG - Take
PIG - Junky

KMFDM - Preach/Pervert
KMFDM - Megalomaniac
KMFDM - Torpedoes
KMFDM - Brute
KMFDM - A Hole in the Wall
KMFDM - Unfit
KMFDM - Ultra
KMFDM - Juke Joint Jezebel
KMFDM - Anarchy
KMFDM - Stray Bullet
KMFDM - A Drug Against War
KMFDM - Mercy

Marilyn Manson - (s)Aint
Marilyn Manson - Ka-boom Ka-boom
Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens
Marilyn Manson - Dope Hat
Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Marilyn Manson - I Don't Like The Drugs (but the drugs like me)
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song
Marilyn Manson -Mobscene
Marilyn Manson - This is the New ****
Marilyn Manson - Rock is Dead
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque

Wumpscut - Christf*ck
Wumpscut - Soylent Green
Wumpscut - Wreath of Barbs

Thesickcity - Punch the Deck
Thesickcity - Hard
Thesickcity - Vapour

Slick Idiot - It Won
Slick Idiot - Blast
Slick Idiot - Xcess

System of a Down - Aerials
System of a Down - Forest
System of a Down - Needles
System of a Down - Science
System of a Down - Ego brain
System of a Down - Psycho
System of a Down - Spiders
System of a Down - Toxicity
System of a Down - Nuguns
System of a Down - Mr. Jack

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
Electric Six - Gay Bar

All Nirvana, Duran Duran, and Depeche Mode songs

etc, etc
 
Your the best around.
 
Vvandenn said:
I am a big fan of the industrial music genre. So most of my music is either classified as industrial, electronica, metal, or a combination of all the above. My favorite songs would have to be:

PIG - Arbor Vitate
PIG - No One Gets Out Of Her Alive
PIG - Blades
PIG - Kundalini
PIG - Filth Healer
PIG - God Rod
PIG - Sin, Sex, Salvation
PIG - The Seven Veils
PIG - Infinite Power
PIG - *****
PIG - Prayer, Praise & Profit
PIG - A Fate Worse Than Death
PIG - Paniac
PIG - The Sick
PIG - Prime Evil
PIG - War Pigs
PIG - Take
PIG - Junky

KMFDM - Preach/Pervert
KMFDM - Megalomaniac
KMFDM - Torpedoes
KMFDM - Brute
KMFDM - A Hole in the Wall
KMFDM - Unfit
KMFDM - Ultra
KMFDM - Juke Joint Jezebel
KMFDM - Anarchy
KMFDM - Stray Bullet
KMFDM - A Drug Against War
KMFDM - Mercy

Marilyn Manson - (s)Aint
Marilyn Manson - Ka-boom Ka-boom
Marilyn Manson - Disposable Teens
Marilyn Manson - Dope Hat
Marilyn Manson - The Dope Show
Marilyn Manson - The Nobodies
Marilyn Manson - I Don't Like The Drugs (but the drugs like me)
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song
Marilyn Manson -Mobscene
Marilyn Manson - This is the New ****
Marilyn Manson - Rock is Dead
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque

Wumpscut - Christf*ck
Wumpscut - Soylent Green
Wumpscut - Wreath of Barbs

Thesickcity - Punch the Deck
Thesickcity - Hard
Thesickcity - Vapour

Slick Idiot - It Won
Slick Idiot - Blast
Slick Idiot - Xcess

System of a Down - Aerials
System of a Down - Forest
System of a Down - Needles
System of a Down - Science
System of a Down - Ego brain
System of a Down - Psycho
System of a Down - Spiders
System of a Down - Toxicity
System of a Down - Nuguns
System of a Down - Mr. Jack

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
Electric Six - Gay Bar

All Nirvana, Duran Duran, and Depeche Mode songs

etc, etc
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All that and no Korn?
 
sheepunite said:
👍
wagon wheel's got a minor mythic backstory to it . . . falsely purportedly a cover of an old dylan song that never got sung in the first place?

it fits nicely with the jayhawks' "blue."
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I was unaware of this....hmmm...very interesting.
 
anything KEANE...more notably their b-sides if you have access to it...otherwise, i might be of some service to you if you want any tracks...
 
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