Listening to [CONTENTLESS][MUSIC]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMfNnyMBa84 This song makes me so happy! Let me tell you a funny story involving this song. Back when I lived with my parents I would often pick up the girl I was seeing and we'd drive to the woods and have sex. One night we parked up and started making out, when a car parked further up the hill a bit. Then people got out and shone lights in our direction. We were like, wtf... After a while we decided to drive away, and I said "Ah well, hey do you want to hear an incredible thrilling euphoric song?" I put this on really loud and drove up the hill, giggling at her stony expression. It turned out the lights were cyclists going for a night-time bike ride along the woodland cycle-paths, they also looked a bit bewildered by the pumping beats
trapaholics
real trap shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8kFzQsJMBs
one of my all-time favorite songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDHidMlViMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM Had this on repeat this week
>Denpa songs consist of music with lyrics and tunes that are extremely awkward and strange but people are still drawn to listen to it anyway, with the rationale that the music has "hypnotized" the listener, and that they are now under control by the strangeness of the song.
I love denpa but that's dumb...
>Denpa songs are often mis-characterized as cute and happy, since a large number of denpa music involve over-the-top moe themes which are extremely happy, cute and sometimes fast-paced, however this is not always the case, as they may also include much darker themes. One misconception of denpa music is that it is a type of "cute J-Pop", a label which is inaccurate since it is a largely underground trend, is not popular mainstream music, and has a completely different scene to that of J-Pop.
I feel like the writer has a misconception about the misconception. They're still Japanese songs composed using pop structures, even if the instrumentation is chiptune or gabber or what-have-you. The creepy themes sung with hyper-happy kawaii vocals in major keys is part of what makes it denpa!
>>108 Remember that they're trying to write from a NPOV for your grandma, explanations of niche shit are pretty simplified. Also denpa doesn't have to be "cute" I think is the point, it's more of a theme or an aesthetic than a genre.
>>109 For sure, but to say it's not a kind of Japanese pop music isn't simplifying it, it's just... false? And, what would be some examples of denpa which isn't cute? I can't think of any... maybe some which are musically not cute, like ones using hardcore terror-style and speedcore beatz etc., but they still feature sickly sweet cute vocals. If it doesn't give you diabetes in your ears, is it really denpa?
>>111 Depends what you mean.
For example, is anything with a female vocalist "cute", or does the content of the lyrics matter also?
Does a song even need lyrics to be denpa, or is having an instrumental track that feels dissociated and frenetic and alien-like enough? If so then there's eg most of Pigmhall.
Can non-Japanese music be denpa, at least "in spirit"? Some of the best denpa songs weren't made with the intention of being denpa, they just kind of turned out that way. If so then Oingo Boingo comes to mind with their frequent combination of upbeat instrumentals and disturbing and/or darkly humorous lyrics (Only a Lad, Dead Man's Party, Little Girls, etc)
>to say it's not a kind of Japanese pop music isn't simplifying it, it's just... false?
It's not pop music because it isn't "popular", you'll never see it on the billboard top 40 or hear it playing in an elevator or whatever. If we agree that it's an aesthetic and not a genre then some songs being similar in form to pop songs doesn't change that.
"Pop" also isn't a genre of itself, it's "normie bait", for lack of a better word, music, made to be as palatable to a mass audience as possible and to sell tons of records. Denpa is fundamentally excluded from being that by being sort of outsider art that's made for smaller audiences with the intention to be what most people would consider creepy or disturbing.
"Pop" can mean two things, what's popular in the charts at the time is called pop music, whether it's disco in the 70s to synthpop in the 80s to R&B boybands/girlgroups for generation Y and so on... most of this year's Eurovision entries were some form of cosy EDM or with hip hop flavours... But, you can have pop sensibilities and write a pop song. What does pop rock mean in comparison to rock, what are they talking about when some country music fans complain that modern country is "just pop but with fiddles", what do you get if you take the power out of powerpop? Pop punk can often be more complex than punk. You're right, pop music sells because it's palatable to lots of people, but it takes skill to make music with mass appeal! For me personally in the best denpa tunes, it's the frankly sublime pop cadences and rubese musical tricks, and charming melodies, and also the unhinged glee that sets my heart a-racin' ヾ(*´∇`)ﾉ
>>112 Hey yeah totally, Oingo Boingo are great and do have the same wonderful musicality I'm talking about. Cardiacs are another non-Japanese band that come to mind, musically and lyrically as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gggq0Siqf2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4xw5RTUFX0
I love pigmhall as well but I'd never considered the denpa aspect, the videos always just make me think of my clubbing days and music and visuals they had some nights. I see where you're coming from though
I will never get tired of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVjSycDJatc
Anyone notice that all J-pop songs contain the same single motif that other music doesn't? My music ears aren't what they used to be, but it's basically a single (sung) note in a different key to the rest of the song, and it's usually in the last quarter of the verse or bridge. I'll try to link it next time I hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gFbbO5WzLU
10 PRINT "CIRCUIT BABIES"
20 GOTO 10
>>117
Also a lot of J-music all seems to start with the catch, then has a few bars' "rest" that introduces you to the general feel of the song, and that's always when the music video displays the title card.
>>120
Obligatory: "goto considered harmful" considered cargo-culting + "considered harmful" considered harmful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsFVQJolzYs
I love Yasui he's great.
>>120
By idiots who never actually read the C spec, of all the things that are actually harmful: uninitialized arrays, old string functions relying on null term, preprocessed shit for platform specificity; goto is not even close, it’s how the compiler code is going to work anyway. Hell the branch fond instructions that come from an if, for, or while are more harmful given specexec bugs. Goto is harmful if you don’t understand the scope of your code, but so is ever actually using code you don’t get the scope of.
>>126
I don't consider Dijkstra an idiot! Bit vociferous tho. Of course, one is not a genius for parroting an opinionated fellow.
But considering what passed for programming in 1968, it was hardly unjustified to very often say "hang on, WTF are you actually trying to do here?" every time you manually GOTO'd (dmr: 'Bob Morris asked, almost conversationally, "what are the arguments to ld?" Someone told him.'), not unlike I ask myself every time I copy-paste code from SO like the nubcake I am.
The second edition of "The Elements of Programming Style" (1978) makes no less than nine mentions of avoiding GOTO and labels. We can surmise it was still a thing breaking code in the 70s.
Not so today, we have much nicer programming languages (C is one of them, this is how old 1968 is) and are still perfectly capable of producing absolute shit in very different ways, but at least in ways that don't wreck up the place like manually placed GOTOs were doing rather often, even unto newbies retyping typo'd BASIC code from a magazine. Today, a C programmer using "goto" probably knows why they've resorted to it (and there's a strong chance the reason is a nested for that can't be renegotiated).
Black Light Ultra - Iglooghost
>>127
Most modern C gotos I've typed are to handle LLVM/clang’s constant fucking terrible forwarding decisions about noops. Usually this goto’s label is on the next line but this forces it to put the variables in the register before a print or math operation rather than dumping uninitialized garbage out of variables I had already been using in a for loop or some such. Somehow the longer I have been writing code the worse the bleeding edge gets.
>>126,127,129 Please stay on-topic by stating what you are or were listening to. My soundtrack for posting this was One More Day by Nate Dogg!
More One Night
from the SSR OST.
>>130
manual sage is p much for off-topics but okay (´・ω・`)
heads up, "HEAVEN★UP" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FsyVf4hWvw
Only a Sith deals in absolutes. IIRC, Dijkstra's rant was about FORTRAN, in which goto can be used intra-procedurally (in C, more like setjmp/longjmp than goto). "Goto" is not a bad word and an arbitrary language keyword should not be stigmatized just because it is those four characters.
>>134 but he was talking about "everything except, perhaps, machine code". on re-read, it's not a particularly long piece or even a particularly strong opinion. it's more like some bits of evidence against it, such was the world so permeated in its use that use cases in favor were hard to discern.
he did express regret later that an title that turned out to be an incendiary meme was slapped on for publication, even i forgot about that detail, and shouldn't have even associated the title of his piece with him; that's publishing for ya, you provide the text, they provide the war
Katamari Forever - A Crimson Rose and a Gin Tonic (YMCK 8bit mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBzbhp34u-Y
>>135 iTunes says I've listened to this 28 times since the 21st of November 2010, but the last time was 26/06/2015... now making it it 29, today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdBt9SbNV2k
Almost every scene in this has a logical connection to a later scene or a sight gag connection to the next. Usually music videos that try this hard take themselves kinda serious, so this has a level of visual comedy you just don't see often enough.
The music, now... I love ALI PROJECT style musically, but I shy away from their lyrics and PVs, that gothy stuff can get kinda disgusting. The title is "kneel and lick my feet" and it's thematically appropriate here, and some guys are into that shit, but DansGame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbyqnpcmPXI
I've listened to this like 30 times over the past few days, that synth is sick. I discovered Telex via spotify recommendations; instrumentally they remind me a lot of Kraftwerk, but lyrically it's like they replaced that irony-tinged Teutonic optimism with something more like dadaist Francophone cynicism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfjzmYZvTw
mfw this mfer has a super genius robot gf and it makes him unhappy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_T1StgldnM
godlike, it's too bad the guy who made it apparently wants to be completely forgotten, but music is relatively indelible in the akashic record
Nothing. I've got severe hearing damage. Unless, tinnitus counts?
DJ Paypal is so good even among the brainfeeder people, holy shit i swear to god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HofkzRkLXwY
REOL - Asymmetry
Reol's rendition injects a lot of energy into this one, i wanna do a cover but it'd be a real stretch of my translation ability to make a singable that doesn't suck
I promise it's good. Maybe it's not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
I've listened to Loli Ripe - Be My Pet! 38 times, but this is the first time since 2014
my current obsession is heavy metal covers of 80s pop/disco songs
>>151 Stayin' Alive came out in 1977 - I enjoyed the cover though
All that talk about dildos made me want to put this on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd_kPq8cGvk
we are THE PHYSICS - Dildonics
FFO Polysics, Devo, Melt-Banana, the Yummy Fur
>>155
Thank you! Just what I need: some good applied dildonics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctPleLOgqk I like the bit 2 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmjhLH8aZzo I love this song so much... the bits where everything stops on a dime, the bits where it builds back up to the verse, but builds up a little longer than you might expect it to, the way the chorus seems to have multiple cadences, the way her voice has a sort of weary tone later in the song when going back into the chorus again, like she's working really hard to sing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR9cplhDCGQ blows me away!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtMciVcDme0
( ˃ ヮ˂) SC-55 tribute album!
My captcha was raining so I put this on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xJpgBHT-Wc I love it, especially the sax solo, even if it reminds me of Kirk van Houten's "Can I Borrow A Feeling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqeRzwRSFo
the second half with death grips instrumentals and new order lyrics is sick as fuck
LOLI RIPE got played on BBC Radio 1‽
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b083bysp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/0e29583d-da9f-44e5-94d8-76acd6e45627
>>175
badly encoded "keygen music" please
http://www.antialias.se/chiptunes/
>>170 amazing, but I'm not sure it beats "Unidentified chinese music for the car"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nql09
https://soundcloud.com/yirba/bbc-radio-3-doesnt-know-hatsune-miku
richard devine mistreating a 303
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipUQKfGygp8
>>178
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6eIBE7Bo3U
everybody is here
>>183
Great OST. I hope Nakano gets a shot at maining an RPG again.
I swear I've heard this track before. I think it was the BGM of an [adult swim] bumper. Has anyone else heard this before?
Captain Obvious - Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
heh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2tP47skRCs
throwback
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Tekken 2 character select theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLy7VVtBsUo
The hum of my computer as I lay in bed at 12:38 in the afternoon the day before Christmas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ_JzplRp3Y had to rewind selecta a couple of times for miko's dumb last verses X) <3 I love these girls <3
＜３ ｙａｙ ｙａｙ ＜３ ｗａｎｔ ｕ ＜３
Goldfinger - Superman
(crying at proof of boomer-ness)