Hearing inspirational music to get creative
This is the first episode of the 'Inspirational Music for Creativity' playlist. If you want to get creative, get inspired for certain creative activities, then this music playlist can help you get into a creative state. Even if you make music yourself, listening to music can be very inspiring. A study showed, that "listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking": research article from 2017 - "Happy creativity: Listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking". But one should distinguish when the creativity of the hearing person should take place. So the question is, when should creativity unfold? Is creativity to be translated into active creative action while listening to music or is creativity to be fostered for upcoming new ideas? Among other things, one study was able to prove that creativity can be promoted by a certain type of background music: research article from 2019 - "Background music stints creativity: Evidence from compound remote associate tasks". But if you want to get into a positive flow state during your work and need to be very focused, certain music that is inspiring and promotes creativity under other conditions can honestly also keep you from the concentration currently required. As is so often the case in our lives, some topics need to be considered from different angles, and the topic of listening to music for creativity is more complex than it appears at first glance.
This may sound somewhat contradictory now, but creativity also emerges from silence. But listening to music and silence do not have to contradict each other. In the studies that are supposed to scientifically prove the effect of music on creativity, one question should not be ignored: How can silence and listening to music be orchestrated in the temporal sequence? Other important questions that should be asked in the context are, for example: Is the music intended to motivate in the short term, e.g. before a meeting? Or is it intended to enhance the imagination in such a way as to provide significant, never-before-seen insights into unimagined spheres of reality, so that great ideas can emerge, as was the case with Albert Einstein?
The "Everything Connected" Playlist
Why is this playlist called "Everything Connected"? This playlist is inspired from the song title "Everything Connected" by english music artist Jon Hopkins. The idea that we humans, the animals, nature, everything is interconnected with everything else is obvious. For this countless examples can be brought, a few are listed below:
- the stock market, share prices
- the weather
- Ball sports like soccer, basketball
- Structure of the internet
- Quantum entanglement - "Spooky Action at a Distance" (How ‘spooky’ is quantum physics?)
You can filter the following music list according to your preferences. Possible filter settings are music genre, decade of release.
The playlist with 100 tracks
Forest Swords - Crow
The release date of the song ist 2018. The music video contains scenes from 'Tomorrow’s Storeys', Dir. Liam Young
Agnes Obel - Curse (Berlin Live Session)
The song was released in the year 2013. There is a live performance video of "Curse" that was released in September 2013.
Lorn - Acid Rain
Released in 2014, there is a successful music video for this song. The music video won the 2015 UK MVA 'Best Dance Music Video' award.
Savoy Motel - Sorry People
The song 'Sorry People' was released in the year 2016 by the band 'Savoy Motel'. There is a funny music video for the song with a line dance performance.
Yumi And The Weather - Must I Wait
Release Year: 2013
The song 'Must I Wait' is by the British artist Yumi And The Weather. In the music video a car driver plays the lead character. The man has to get along with some challenges.
Hot Chip - Need You Now
Release Year: 2015
In the music video for 'Need You Now' by the British band 'Hot Chip' the lead character, played by the singer of the band Alexis Taylor, seems to be caught in a temporal loop.
Iron & Wine - Boy with a Coin
Release Year: 2007
Mattiel - Count Your Blessings
Release Year: 2017
Jain - Come
Release Year: 2015
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
Release Year: 2007
Bryan Ferry & Todd Terje - Johnny & Mary
Release Year: 2014
Schiller - Let It Rise ft. Midge Ure
Release Year: 2010
Bastille - Of The Night
Release Year: 2012
Fatoumata Diawara - Bissa
Release Year: 2011
Carl Louis - Telescope (feat. Ary)
Release Year: 2015
Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved (Adam K & Soha Edit)
Release Year: 2005
Buscabulla - Caer
Release Year: 2014
Jon Hopkins - Everything Connected
Release Year: 2018
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Release Year: 1982
Nine Inch Nails - Only (Dirty)
Release Year: 2005
Lola Marsh - You're Mine
Release Year: 2017
TUNNG - Bullets
Release Year: 2007
THYLACINE - Pleasure
Release Year: 2014
Cut Chemist - The Garden Live with the Seattle Symphony
Release Year: 2006
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout
Release Year: 2007
Kirin J Callinan - Living Each Day ft. Connan Mockasin
Release Year: 2017
Blue Man Group - The Forge
Release Year: 2016
Léonie Pernet - Butterfly
Release Year: 2018
Campo - 1987 ft. Jorge Drexler
Release Year: 2014
Methyl Ethel - Ubu
Release Year: 2017
Absynthe Cocktail: a musical meditation on Erik Satie
Release Year: 2017
School of Seven Bells - Signals
Release Year: 2016
Juliet - Avalon
Release Year: 2004
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Release Year: 2005
Nick Mulvey - Mountain To Move
Release Year: 2017
Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
Release Year: 2007
Destroyer - Savage Night at the Opera
Release Year: 2011
Rah Rah - Prairie Girl
Release Year: 2012
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - "Perfect Time"
Release Year: 2016
Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl
Release Year: 2017
Fischerspooner - The 15th
Release Year: 2001
Jungle - Time
Release Year: 2014
Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach
Release Year: 1980
Slowdive - Star Roving
Release Year: 2017
Austra - Utopia
Release Year: 2017
Morgan Delt - Some Sunsick Day
Release Year: 2016
Lou Doillon - Devil Or Angel
Release Year: 2012
MGMT - Kids
Release Year: 2007
The Bolshoi - Sunday Morning
Release Year: 1986
Monsoon - Ever So Lonely
Release Year: 1983
Sia - Soon We'll Be Found
Release Year: 2008
The Cranberries - Linger
Release Year: 1993
Portico Quartet - Endless
Release Year: 2017
Patrick Watson - Love Songs For Robots
Release Year: 2015
Solange - Lovers In The Parking Lot
Release Year: 2012
Foxygen - Shuggie
Release Year: 2013
Olympia - Smoke Signals
Release Year: 2016
The Psychedelic Furs - Heaven
Release Year: 1984
Sade - When Am I Going To Make A Living
Release Year: 1984
Chairlift - Bruises
Release Year: 2008
Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
Release Year: 2015
Sharon Van Etten - Taking Chances
Release Year: 2014
LoneLady - Hinterland
Release Year: 2015
Rone - Bye Bye Macadam
Release Year: 2012
LP - Other People
Release Year: 2016
Broken Bells - Holding on for Life
Release Year: 2014
Florence + The Machine - Queen of Peace
Release Year: 2015
Snow Patrol - Called Out In The Dark
Release Year: 2011
Santigold - Disparate Youth
Release Year: 2012
First Aid Kit - Emmylou
Release Year: 2012
The War On Drugs - Holding On
Release Year: 2017
Depeche Mode - Walking In My Shoes
Release Year: 1993
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Release Year: 1977
R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life
Release Year: 2001
David Lynch & Lykke Li - I'm Waiting Here
Release Year: 2013
Lusine - Just A Cloud (feat. Vilja Larjosto)
Release Year: 2017
Goo Goo Dolls - Here Is Gone
Release Year: 1998
Feist - My Moon My Man
Release Year: 2007
Collective Soul - December
Release Year: 1995
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
Release Year: 2015
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Passenger
Release Year: 1987
Blood Orange - Augustine
Release Year: 2016
The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Release Year: 1987
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
Release Year: 2017
Blonde Redhead - Here Sometimes
Release Year: 2010
New Order - Crystal
Release Year: 2001
The Cure - High
Release Year: 1992
Julia Holter - Feel You
Release Year: 2015
The Egg - Walking Away
Release Year: 2005
Wild Belle - Our Love Will Survive
Release Year: 2016
BOY - We Were Here
Release Year: 2015
The Divine Comedy - Diva Lady
Release Year: 2006
Kirsty MacColl - A New England
Release Year: 1985
Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
Release Year: 2004
Alexander (Alex Ebert) - Truth
Release Year: 2011
Laura Veirs - July Flame
Release Year: 2010
Talisco - Your Wish
Release Year: 2013
WestBam feat. Inga Humpe - Götterstrasse No 1
Release Year: 2013