OT: What are you listening to?

[ontnut]

The dang Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack....for the 10,000th time lmao.
WE'RE GOIN UP UP UP, IT'S OUR MOMENT,
YOU KNOW TOGETHER WE'RE GLOWIN', GONNA BE GONNA BE GLOWIN'.

It's stuck in my headddd. HELLPPPP!!!!

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[Clay Davis]

YUSSEF LATEEF! The rizz... of the Qadiani saxophone master!

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Much love.... to the Qadiani/Ahmadiyya community!!!

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The coolest scene in ANIME, of the MUGEN... a man of RIZZ. His own Rizz!! Featuring the music of Ikue Asazaki and Akira Takahashi, a HAUNTING song called "Obokuri-Eeumi". Mugen and Ikue are Ryukyujin (that is, native Okinawans). Who else was an Okinawan? That's right, Mr. Miyagi!

[bballsparkin]

If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

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David Bowie-Modern Love 1983 - Original Version LP (Extended)

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Tom Waits - "Swordfishtrombone"

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Out Of The Blue · Roxy Music

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Tom Waits - "New Coat Of Paint"

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[Clay Davis]

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High rizz breakcore track!!

[Merit]

YUSSEF LATEEF! The rizz... of the Qadiani saxophone master!

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Much love.... to the Qadiani/Ahmadiyya community!!!

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The coolest scene in ANIME, of the MUGEN... a man of RIZZ. His own Rizz!! Featuring the music of Ikue Asazaki and Akira Takahashi, a HAUNTING song called "Obokuri-Eeumi". Mugen and Ikue are Ryukyujin (that is, native Okinawans). Who else was an Okinawan? That's right, Mr. Miyagi!

Bro, can we be friends?

[LoveMyRaps]

The dang Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack....for the 10,000th time lmao.
WE'RE GOIN UP UP UP, IT'S OUR MOMENT,
YOU KNOW TOGETHER WE'RE GLOWIN', GONNA BE GONNA BE GLOWIN'.

It's stuck in my headddd. HELLPPPP!!!!

Watch on YouTube

Is this an AI track?

Kind of crazy that AI made tracks are now dominating the music industry...

[Mikistan]

Just got back from deftones with system of a down at Rogers centre

[ontnut]

The dang Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack....for the 10,000th time lmao.
WE'RE GOIN UP UP UP, IT'S OUR MOMENT,
YOU KNOW TOGETHER WE'RE GLOWIN', GONNA BE GONNA BE GLOWIN'.

It's stuck in my headddd. HELLPPPP!!!!

Watch on YouTube

Is this an AI track?

Kind of crazy that AI made tracks are now dominating the music industry...

Short answer: No. The main vocalist is a real one. She's one of the vocalists that got left behind because she was "too old" to be marketed. But this one is totally real.

Long answer: Oooooooo I'm so scared about how this next generation is going to view and appreciate music....and to a larger extent, life. I guess every generation feels similarly, but the rate at which tech is growing...definitely exceeds our mental capacity to understand and digest those changes....Anyhow...Here are my questions: 1) What is "art? and who defines what is good or not?" 2) How is an AI produced track any different than a track produced by someone who has studied the history of music?". 3) If you dig deep enough, will you'll realize that all music is finite?

AI can maybe answer all 3 questions. The big corps are trying to answer it now thru youtube, spotify, etc.,

I've thought about this for a long time and ...*mind blown*.... (I've got no answers)

Why do we all love "pop music". Is there a reason why we love these same 4 chords? Or are these specific frequencies/tones just a way to control our minds? lol.

Why is it a near universal truth that the 5-1 interval feels satisfying, homey, and safe?

Lots of questions...

But if I close my eyes...I love this song "Golden". Lyrics, melody and harmony hit the spot. Thoughts?

[Clay Davis]

YUSSEF LATEEF! The rizz... of the Qadiani saxophone master!

Watch on YouTube

Much love.... to the Qadiani/Ahmadiyya community!!!

Watch on YouTube

The coolest scene in ANIME, of the MUGEN... a man of RIZZ. His own Rizz!! Featuring the music of Ikue Asazaki and Akira Takahashi, a HAUNTING song called "Obokuri-Eeumi". Mugen and Ikue are Ryukyujin (that is, native Okinawans). Who else was an Okinawan? That's right, Mr. Miyagi!

Bro, can we be friends?

Yes brother we will be as friends uniting the rizz of the Qadiani/Ahmadiyya community with the rizz of their cousins, the Ryukyujin, of which Mr. Miyagi is a part!

[Clay Davis]

The dang Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack....for the 10,000th time lmao.
WE'RE GOIN UP UP UP, IT'S OUR MOMENT,
YOU KNOW TOGETHER WE'RE GLOWIN', GONNA BE GONNA BE GLOWIN'.

It's stuck in my headddd. HELLPPPP!!!!

Watch on YouTube

Is this an AI track?

Kind of crazy that AI made tracks are now dominating the music industry...

Short answer: No. The main vocalist is a real one. She's one of the vocalists that got left behind because she was "too old" to be marketed. But this one is totally real.

Long answer: Oooooooo I'm so scared about how this next generation is going to view and appreciate music....and to a larger extent, life. I guess every generation feels similarly, but the rate at which tech is growing...definitely exceeds our mental capacity to understand and digest those changes....Anyhow...Here are my questions: 1) What is "art? and who defines what is good or not?" 2) How is an AI produced track any different than a track produced by someone who has studied the history of music?". 3) If you dig deep enough, will you'll realize that all music is finite?

AI can maybe answer all 3 questions. The big corps are trying to answer it now thru youtube, spotify, etc.,

I've thought about this for a long time and ...*mind blown*.... (I've got no answers)

Why do we all love "pop music". Is there a reason why we love these same 4 chords? Or are these specific frequencies/tones just a way to control our minds? lol.

Why is it a near universal truth that the 5-1 interval feels satisfying, homey, and safe?

Lots of questions...

But if I close my eyes...I love this song "Golden". Lyrics, melody and harmony hit the spot. Thoughts?

The Philosopher Immanuel Kant (pronounced "****") said that the aesthetic experience is the result of free-play between the faculty of imagination and the faculty of understanding. Art, as it is perceived, is the ability of an external object to arouse these feelings in us. The aesthetic experience, then, will progress, just as one's faculties of imagination and understanding can exist in varying degrees of power. Supposing that one uses these faculties to produce music, the output of the LLM and the human being will not be discernible from one another when they are imagining things the same way, understanding things the same way.

Personally, I believe that the capacity of LLMs will always lag behind human being in a sense because the human being's cognitive faculties are as much embodied as they are un-embodied; the organized sound-waves that move our soul will resonate to the degree to which our physical being is in harmony with our emotional, mental, imaginal (distinct from imagination!), and higher-order spiritual beings. We will always find affinity with the one who articulates, from a place of familiarity, where we are at. In a way that's familiar. The LLM, by definition, will not know what it's like to have human experience unless it's fed to it as an input for the model, but that's different from living it as a biological being.

Another point: I mentioned how music is just "organized sound-waves". Our mind and body resonate with certain outputs created by human beings and now LLMs. These are sound-waves created by instruments (or their similacrum) which strike us as particularly moving. But this distinction is somewhat arbitrary: one can have aesthetic experiences from the sound of the waves... from our recollections of our father's voice months after he has passed... from the sound of kids excitedly crossing the street to get to school... some even speak of the Symphony of the Stars; I am sure that the radio-waves produced by celestial beings are incredibly awe-inspiring, if you vibe with them the right way.

The rizz of art lies in the rizz of the aesthetic experience! The rizz of the aesthetic experience resides in the rizz of the faculties! The rizz of the faculties resides in the rizz of the HUMAN experience!

[bballsparkin]

Just got back from deftones with system of a down at Rogers centre

That's it? Just gonna leave us hanging? FFS how was it?

Hopefully it lived up to the hype.

[bballsparkin]

Prince Of Ballard - As Long As I Have CREAM

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Lil' Wayne - Fireman (feat. The Budos Band) (Prince of Ballard remix) (hiphop)

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"Radio suckers never play me"

Wyrd Visions - Sigill (1/2)

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[Rope] Away

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NEZ - Wild Youngster feat. ScHoolboy Q

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Let's Talk About Love

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EKKSTACY - i walk this earth all by myself (Official Visualizer)

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[Mikistan]

Just got back from deftones with system of a down at Rogers stadium

That's it? Just gonna leave us hanging? FFS how was it?

Hopefully it lived up to the hype.

Thanks for asking!

I also got to see Yellowcard and A Day to Remember on Sunday night at Budweiser stage - so waiting to respond until all experiences were in my memory banks.

Review of System Of a Down
I went alone (and sober ) to System of a Down friday night, it was the second of two shows they had in toronto, with Wednesday being the first night. I paid 95 dollars for this on thursday night, so didnt break the bank like 300-500 for coldplay or thousands for some other pop singers...
It was my first time being to a show at the downsview rogers stadium. I had no issues with safetly/lighting/organization like people complained earlier this summer about the venue.

I think in the future, i would chose to buy tickets on the floor at rogers stadium - i was sitting in section N116 row 11 - which is a seated area mostly straight and slightly angled from the stage.
This felt very far away, it was hard to visually make out the band members faces/expressions, and because of the distance, the sound was a little more distorted / harder to make out vocals.

Nonetheless, the music was fun, the vibe was good, they played for 1 hour 45 minutes, which is a good timeframe. Played all their typical hits (ie. Toxicity, Chop Suey, Aerials) and a bunch of newer/other stuff I was less familiar with.

The visuals at the stadium was cool (primarily they use lasers to shine from the stage onto the back of the seating on the north side, above the crowd, so its got a cool look, but i found it odd that they didnt use the giant screens to the left and right of the stage screens for anything during the show. These things are huge, and only got turned on in between sets to inform people about future band shows, where water stations are, the rules of the venue, see something say something, etc. and not used to show any visuals or to show the performers during the show. I guess its not needed, just seemed like another thing they could have added to add even more pizzazz (edit:RIZZ) to the performance. They also did a tribute song to Ozzy which i guess meant something to some people

They didnt do the encore BS, so when it ended, it just ended, and I felt like, oh, its done? ok time to go. Still cool tho, lots of friendly people singing along, but in the stands, being so removed from the floor people, felts a bit more isolated.


Review of Yellowcard
Very fun, this was their first time in Canada in 10 years, so there was a great vibe for a sunday night. Lots of millennials in there, so felt at home
Yellowcard played their hits and a bunch of new music, they have a new album releasing next month and i enjoyed a couple songs they played from it.

I think what I noticed most between Yellowcard and A Day to Remember vs System of a Down in terms of their stage presence and experience was - Yellowcard and A Day to Remember felt very real/down to earth - there was a fidelity in what they were talking about/joking about in between songs that connected and showed more insight/vulnerability than System of a Down did when not performing the songs.

Yellowcard mentioned it was wild to them that they are basically 20 years later from some of their biggest hits, and they are touring and performing in bigger places/with seemingly better vibes than they did way back then, and they were immensely thankful for that.
They were super fun on stage, some fun visuals and lighting, and their inclusion of a violin player continues to be as stupendous to my ears in the rock genre as it did way back in time, when they were one of the few including a violin in their band makeup.

They did however only play 1 hour, which was a bit sad - but i think thats because A Day to Remember is a bigger ticket and the technical headliner (or i think they switch off during their tour on who opens and who ends between the two of them).

2 Songs I enjoyed from their new stuff they played -
Better Days - Yellowcard - this is the title track of their album coming out next month - this track does very well to fill that nostalgia void in terms of sound/tempo/composition, while specifically addressing that same nostalgia with the lyrics. A generation who went through their high-school formative years with their older music, being reminded that no matter what paths we may have taken in life since then, there is still time to appreciate, or create the "good old days" as long as we push

"No, it’s not too late
To change everything you wanna change
I hope one day you say
You don’t wanna run from better days"

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Bedroom Posters - Yellowcard
Another song from their upcoming album - this one was very fun when performed as they had the audience practice singing along with the "Whoooahhh Ohhhh, Whoahhhh ohhhh" to harmony with the hook/chorus in the song.
Catchy track, and again, hits the nostalgia bone, with reference of things changing, but more tinged with sadness and speaking to the restlessness and uncomforting status of the present world.

Tear down my bedroom posters (whoa-oh, whoa-oh)
Don't say those days are over (whoa-oh, whoa-oh)
I'm restless lately (lately)
(I'm restless)
Just medicate me (whoa-oh, whoa-oh)

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Review of A Day to Remember
I will admit, i was not familiar with this band at all - i went for the 3.5 Yellowcard song i knew and because friends wanted to see Yellowcard.
They then left, and I stayed to see A Day to Remember come on after alone - but thats ok because people are friendly and a very drunk girl was dancing with me most of the rest of the night...

A Day to Remember really impressed me - i think i enjoyed them most of the 3 bands I saw this weekend.
Harder rock sound - almost a mix of Yellowcard and SOAD sitting in between with both softer pop-rock concepts mixed with sections of screaming/head banging/layers guitars+drum fills.

The visuals were great - tons of smoke/air sprays shooting directly up across the strage at times, guitarists and lead singer would stand in the air streams and it looked dope.
Pyrotechnics in a bunch of songs too, you could feel the fire for sure in the seated area (i didnt go lawn for this show) -- and their art on the main screen was super cool and changed thematically for each song they performed.

They also played for 1 hour and 40 minutes - which was super good value for 35 bucks between 2 other openers, Yellowcard and A Day to Remember all in 1 night

Authenticity was there - they joked a ton on stage over their set between songs, they were funny, and close to the end, they specifically went on a rant about how bull the encore ritual is - that its fun once in a while, but doing it over and over is a fake song and dance that doesnt need to be manufactured - so they straight up said, we are going to skip that encore performative bull chanting, and play 4 more songs for us.
I loved the feeling of knowing exactly where we stood in the show and experience that way, and it made the last couple songs they play mean a bit more, due to their choices and the vibe they left us with to finish.

All 3 songs below are from their newest album they released earlier this year (March 2025)

A Day to Remember - All my Friends
Just a banger - but def more of a radio/pop vibe than the rest of their sound - speaking to the experience of having a crazy fun night with friends - i think this one is on the radio a bit. Fun track, and was fun on stage too

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A Day to Remember - Flowers
Another one that speaks to nostalgia - but a song speaking to showing gratitude to those around you, because even when we get lost in everything else going on, its the people around us over the years that matter.

"I don't wanna wait 'til the party's over
To tell you everything I should say sober"

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Lastly

Lebron - A Day to Remember
This song is about Lebron - and the bull the haters say
This one was super fun on stage, because they rolled out two giant basketball nets and tossed out about 20 basketball shaped beachballs into the crowd, and thru the whole song, people were trying to make buckets with the beachballs.
"For every shot you make
they judge on all the others"

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[bballsparkin]

^^Nice. That's quiet a write up. Reasonable prices for Toronto too. I saw the commercial and didn't put two and two together that it was Rogers Stadium. Too many Rogers named venues in Canada. That "All My Friends" song sounds familiar. I don't recognize the other songs. Catchy. I was wondering if A Day to Remember was from Ohio becasue of the LeBron song but it looks like they're from Florida. Lol at the beachballs that sounds like fun.

Curious, did you catch Deftones at all? I was tempted to go to the show to see them.

edit: and I totally agree about encores. Sometimes I've thought it felt authentic but often they don't.

edit ii: reading a reddit thread it seems that folks weren't impressed with Deftones sound quality. but maybe that could be because of where they were seated.