What are you listening to?

Joan said:
I am reminded of the Band Santana. And it's relation to them in 60's. And what happened in the 60's the Beatles revolution the greatest phenomenon to strike the western world...And to quote McCartney, all they did was sing stupid love Songs. Thought about the rising of the Pleiades and Stonehenge and it reminded of the magnificent instrumentals of Santanna in the early days ( also strange) when the Beatles were just getting started...Strange. Looking through the audience, a tall man in dark glasses who does not jive to the music, another with with what looked like some form of bandada, stunned and imobile. Also strange

This from the 1960's the instrumentals are out of this world with a multi orchestra collaboration.

Soul Sacrifice...The music, listening to this is a journey. Makes me wonder did our ancestors also experience such dynamic music at the time strangley the music does not give my mind a jolt,to another brain wave.

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I loved this. I grew up in South Texas. So...

 
This popped up in my head this morning…..Who Wants To Live For Ever - Queen


First time I saw this film it moved me deeply, still does after 40 years. The time period, Scotland, the theme, bag pipes, swords, and the this song..

Everything with Scotland I watch…. just bloody hate the "redcoats", "the bruutish uumpire", every time I see them my blood boils…still ready to go to battle with them.

I think I'm more Scottish than Swedish...
 
I was looking for Xiao flute music - I'm learning to play it - and found this piece of Guqin classic music. It's a very relaxing. I hope you enjoy it while taking a breather from our present.

EDIT: A bit of clean up.
 
SOTTREADER said:
Got lost in the lyrics


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Normally I like country music when it's done well, and this band does it almost "too well". A quick search on Apple Music shows that this band - Whiskey and Lead - have released no less than 14 full length albums (each with 10-20 songs) during the two months of May and June 2025.

If I'm not mistaken, or there is some other explanation, it sounds like the entire project could be the work of some kind of AI.

Here is their Youtube playlist - 16 albums listed on Youtube here...

Crazy how good AI is getting at emulating real music these days. It may not be long before it will be impossible to distinguish between songs created by humans and songs made by machines.
 
Timótheos said:
Normally I like country music when it's done well, and this band does it almost "too well". A quick search on Apple Music shows that this band - Whiskey and Lead - have released no less than 14 full length albums (each with 10-20 songs) during the two months of May and June 2025.

If I'm not mistaken, or there is some other explanation, it sounds like the entire project could be the work of some kind of AI.

Here is their Youtube playlist - 16 albums listed on Youtube here...

Crazy how good AI is getting at emulating real music these days. It may not be long before it will be impossible to distinguish between songs created by humans and songs made by machines.
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Wow, I think you are right ! 100% AI.

It's interesting you say "too well".. I'm not musically trained so I wouldn't know but do you mean it's actually music capable of competing against real musicians?

I think I have stumbled across this AI sub genre by looking for music with lyrics that are not basically about love, money or relationships.

Here's another "singer" that i think is AI


I think we are doomed - are we allowed to like music made by AI? 😳

The weird thing as well is I can't find any information regarding the source of these "bands". They just popped up on music platforms, including YouTube. They all seem recent too, so I guess by the end of the year we may be seeing the top music being listened to by people being AI ? (and people may not even know it!)
 
SOTTREADER said:
- are we allowed to like music made by AI? 😳
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I wondered about that question too, when I once played around with a free online AI music app. Though some of the generated songs superficially sounded quite good, there was something subtly creepy coming along with. I could not prompt it to do otherwise (limited options). Then I think of Laura, how she handles GROK and is able to write a whole book with AI, with amazingly awareness raising content. Maybe it´s a question of how skillfully AI is prompted?
 
A very funky OST from British jazz prodigy Roy Budd. The bassline is amazing along with the piano. Taken from a decent movie from 1983.

 
SOTTREADER said:
Wow, I think you are right ! 100% AI.

It's interesting you say "too well".. I'm not musically trained so I wouldn't know but do you mean it's actually music capable of competing against real musicians?
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Well, in a way, yes. It is played, arranged and produced in such a perfect way that it's almost "too good to be true". From the choice of instrumentation (fiddle, bass, pedal steel), to the low gravelly timbre of the male singer's voice, to the choice of lyrical content (devils, death and dust), - hits every country music cliche to a tee. Even the band's name "Whiskey and Lead" capitalizes on some of most common country music themes - alcohol and guns.

What is missing most to my ears is the human factor, the little imperfections, the rawness, the feeling of something created with care and attention. For lack of a better word - it reminds me of music without 'soul'. So, while being technically perfect, and hitting all the right notes and phrases, in the end it still sounds like a product made by a machine.
 
Breo said:
I wondered about that question too, when I once played around with a free online AI music app. Though some of the generated songs superficially sounded quite good, there was something subtly creepy coming along with. I could not prompt it to do otherwise (limited options). Then I think of Laura, how she handles GROK and is able to write a whole book with AI, with amazingly awareness raising content. Maybe it´s a question of how skillfully AI is prompted?
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It's all so very interesting - i know what you mean by something "subtly creepy".

Is that creepy thing like truly something objectively creepy, or is it a feeling generated by us being aware that something we thought of as uniquely human is being done effortlessly by something we know to be artificial. For me that's how I am explaining that feeling - imagine AI got so good that you can make whole movies with artificial actors and stories you literally dream up 😳 (i.e. no need for Hollywood or learning actual film-craft etc)

I don't know... all I know is once upon a time people could only get from a to b quickly with a horse and now we have cars, planes etc. That must have been uniquely creepy? Or is it not the same thing?!?!?
Timótheos said:
Well, in a way, yes. It is played, arranged and produced in such a perfect way that it's almost "too good to be true". From the choice of instrumentation (fiddle, bass, pedal steel), to the low gravelly timbre of the male singer's voice, to the choice of lyrical content (devils, death and dust), - hits every country music cliche to a tee. Even the band's name "Whiskey and Lead" capitalizes on some of most common country music themes - alcohol and guns.

What is missing most to my ears is the human factor, the little imperfections, the rawness, the feeling of something created with care and attention. For lack of a better word - it reminds me of music without 'soul'. So, while being technically perfect, and hitting all the right notes and phrases, in the end it still sounds like a product made by a machine.
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This is interesting - so it's the presence of struggle and error whilst striving for perfection what distinguishes man from machine.

I am a bit pessimistic in thinking that what you write here "the little imperfections, the rawness, the feeling of something created with care" will eventually be programmed to AI.
 
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