I try an hit my reviews as soon as they come up wherever I am. I’m not really into this sacred study space thing; I have to recal these things in all environments, noisy, quiet, drunk, sober, awake, tired; whatever. Sure, I may drop more reviews, but that’s the way it goes.
For my last set of reviews the soundtrack was the TV Tokyo show I’m watching; one of their many minor tarento go on a bus trip type shows, a favourite type of show.
Each to their own though.
True. I also often do my reviews on the train or at parties, or in different circumstances, too. But when I’m at home and I have a big queue I usually put on podcast or my favourite playlist on spotify, grab a drink or some food, and do the reviews.
VOD BOIS LETS GO
Omg I’m so excited to listen to all these songs! Great topic!
私も！
It always changes, but it will mostly always be Bemani music
inhales
also i made a similar thread to this
it died
but
someone could revive it? hopeful shiba inu eyes
Hated by Life Itself has been stuck in my head and I have been jamming out to it all day!! 
Thank you for sharing it. What else do you like? 
Well… Basically Just Mafumafu 
I listen to a lot of Mafumafu
Like a lot
As in I have a problem help me
That song was actually a cover by Mafumafu though! 
The original isn’t as catchy imo because it uses vocaloid and I don’t think the voice has the power it needs.
Also Mafumafu makes everything better
Here’s some more songs I like!
And of course my favorite song ever~
I-I’ll stop myself there 
If I don’t stop now I’ll drown us all in these <_<
Currently watching spongebob squarepants in Japanese on NHK Eテレ. This is good review background.
I should learn the theme song in Japanese. Over 15 years ago my first job out of university was broadcasting Nickelodeon to the Netherlands, in the long night shifts I learnt the Dutch version of the theme song and I can still sing a garbled version of it.
Hiiiiiiiiiijjjj woont in een ananas diep in de zee! 
Edit: so as not to off-top: I can absolutely not listen to anything while doing reviews. ^-^
Hij ziet zo geel als een kaas souffle.
When I listen to music during reviews, I make more random mistakes, like switching kanji and voccabulary (生, looking at you…) or mistaking reading for meaning. The only time I listen to music is when I’m doing reviews while tipsy/drunk.
Same here, if music is important to you then IMO it’s best to listen to slow music without any vocals in them.
@Topic: I’m mostly using piano tracks from games like Final Fantasy or I use this: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/japaneseGardenSoundscapeGenerator.php
That website has a lot of great soundscape generators and with headphones this really helps to drown out all the background noise in my house and works well to calm me down from a busy day, which is especially important for learning.
Wow this is sweet!!! Love that 1980s Japan vibe
I can’t listen to music while I study or do anything (except walk or drive)
That’s a pretty neat choice, plus I learnt a few words from the song lyrics. This song kinda reminds me of a Two Door Cinema Club or a Vampire Weekend song because of the guitar riff at the beginning.
I often listen to ‘Where are you from?’ because it’s the first non-anime Japanese song I listened to. I heard it briefly in a podcast about foreigners living in Japan, so it always makes me think of travel and adventures when I hear it.
‘Where are you from?’ By Nobody Knows+
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These are wonderful!! Thank you so much!
I can only sometimes listen to music while studying. Sometimes music keeps me awake, but sometimes it puts me to sleep. If I listen to something new, it’s too distracting, so it has to be something I have listened to before, usually on repeat or on a very small ordered playlist. I generally like it to be something upbeat, perhaps something my fingers can dance across the keyboard to.
John Butler - Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYJf_ybyVo
Talisk - Montreal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n44J0dCgo1w
Ímar - Canadian Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFalXoDhurA
Bit Shifter - Information Chase
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/bit_shifter/Information_Chase/
Also I make my own Chiptunes sometimes. Chiptunes and Video Game music seem to repeat pretty well.
As for music with lyrics… Japanese music is a bit too distracting for me because I can sometimes understand parts of it, but it takes a lot of brain power. English music is sometimes OK, because I can understand it without thinking too much. Also sometimes I like to listen to Czech music, which I can’t understand at all (which means it’s not using up brain power!).
Kami-sama, please help me learn the kanji!
Micah Tyler - Even Then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR9UsXgIAjg
Rend Collective - Every Giant Will Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF84v-oOhp0
nEscafeX - Tvoje místo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUTRoH2QRA
Sebastian - Toulavá
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvpIN5A4WRU
@Liras That https://mynoise.net thing is really cool. I probably won’t use it to study, but I’m definitely going back there to fiddle with it.
Right now it’s the sound of construction across the street…
I love this. And at the same time find it rather humorous to be in the middle of learning new vocabulary when I suddenly hear “F***! What do I ******* look like, I have a ******* sign on my back?!”
Not exactly what I was expecting. XD