Music to do your PhD to

I did my PhD on a part-time basis, which meant I worked on much of it at strange times of the day. Here's some of the music that kept me going through late nights on the laptop and early(ish) mornings in Starbucks. Hurray for MP3 players!

Update: A couple of years on, and now I at last have an iPod, an updated list.

5 albums:

  1. REM: Up.
  2. Moby: 18.
  3. Maxïmo Park: A certain trigger.
  4. Mylo: Destroy rock and roll.
  5. Kasabian: Kasabian.

And 28 songs:

  1. Wedding Present: Everyone thinks he looks daft.
  2. Belle and Sebastian: Seeing other people.
  3. Morrissey: Suedehead.
  4. Manic Street Preachers: La tristesse durera.
  5. Lost Witness: 7 colours.
  6. Pianoman: Blurred.
  7. Minimalistix: Close cover.
  8. Darude: Sandstorm.
  9. REM: Try not to breathe.
  10. Crowded House: Pineapple head.
  11. Stranglers: Something better change.
  12. Abba: Ring ring.
  13. Pixies: Debaser.
  14. Fine Young Cannibals: Suspicious minds.
  15. Gene: London, can you wait?
  16. Housemartins: The world's on fire.
  17. Kosheen: Hungry.
  18. Sureal: You take my breath away.
  19. Stone Roses: Standing here.
  20. Wedding Present: My favourite dress.
  21. REM: Cuyahoga.
  22. Ride: Vapour trail.
  23. Freeloaders: So much love to give.
  24. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Messages.
  25. Suzanne Vega: Luka.
  26. Chemical Brothers: Let forever be.
  27. Wedding Present: Kennedy.
  28. Killers: All these things that I've done.

PS: The above are just simple lists - no microformats or playlist XML or anything clever like that. But I'm sure you can get them all from Amazon :)