http://www.joeandwillask.com/
http://www.joeandwillask.com/
Joe and Will met in 2005, both coming from very different musical backgrounds. Joe was releasing drum and bass 12” records while Will came from the hard house and trance scenes. Their name describes their relentless passion to constantly explore genres of music, and represent their different influences within their own characteristic sound that they have become so well known for.
They started collaborating in 2007, and almost immediately drew attention from local DJs at respected nights such as Trash, as well as club promoters and indie labels. Their residencies at underground club nights soon moved into playing at some of the hottest nights in London; Matter, Trailer Trash, Durrr, Club NME, Boombox, Scala, Ministry of Sound, the Egg to name a few, as well as gigs across the UK, Berlin, Florence, Milan, Budapest, Bucharest, Lille, and Ghent..
Meanwhile their productions have been equally well received. Coming across with dirt and cutting edge production and an eye firmly on the dance floor, but also with effortless musicality not normally associated with techno, they win over fans from the band/ indie scene, as easily as diehard clubbers. They inject tonality and musical flow into everything they touch, all under the banner of techno or electro or whatever you would like to call it, and have been compared to SoulWax, Chemical Brothers, DIM and Popof.
The duo signed to Andrew Friendly’s Gulp Communications in 2008, and have released three EPs worth of material, appearing in the Cool Cuts Chart, and bringing a wide fanbase to themselves including Brodinski who said “My favourite producers of the moment”, Kris Menace, Vicarious Bliss, Casper C, Acid Jacks, AutoKratz, Dark Globe, Jody Wisternoff, Cazals, Matik, Virgin Tears to name a few. They went on to remix a wide array of artists, from the highly blogged Mystery Jets remix, to La Roux on Kitsune/Polydor, Revolver (EMI), The Bell, Jupiters Heroes, Acid Girls, Revolver, Franz & Shape, Division Kent (Sony), Circuit Freq, Milke and Atomizer. There are many other remixes in progress for the likes of Ministry of Sound, and EMI’s new priority band ‘Hockey.’
Joe and Will perform live, as well as DJing. As DJs they are adaptable who like to play to any crowd but their heart lies in techno and minimal on big systems. Live, their setup consists of the pair playing a set of their own material using laptops and midi controllers. The set is hard, and energetic with a balance of musicality to win over the indie crowds as easily as the techno crowds, hailing back to the start of warehouse rave with it’s raw energy and fist pumping breakdowns. Just witness the indie crowd at Club NME go absolutely mental to two lads behind laptops, and you quickly realise this is music that’s connecting on a primal level, with enough raw energy, guts and musicality to win over virtually any audience. And therein lies the answer to what Joe and Will asked.
Lies
Joe and Will Ask? Lyrics
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Remnants in my mind is what I have instead
Paint the town is what she often said
As I drift a thousand miles in my head
You'll never let go, you'll never let go
You're looking back
You've been wasting my time with your beautiful lies
You've been wasting my time with your cheap disguise
You've been wasting my time, and you can't deny
Walk along the road around the blinded bend
Take a chance even when your chances end
Find the time to make the best of it
Don't know what's in front of you, my jaded friend
You'll never let go, you'll never let go
You're looking back
You've been wasting my time with your beautiful lies
You've been wasting my time with your cheap disguise
You've been wasting my time with your beautiful lies
You've been wasting my time, and you can't deny
Gonna take a chance and make a run for it
Time to make a life and never quit
Who am I to judge, to each their own
Who am I to judge the beautiful lie, the beautiful lie
You'll never let go, you'll never let go
You're looking back
You've been wasting my time with your beautiful lies
You've been wasting my time with your cheap disguise
You've been wasting my time with your beautiful lies
You've been wasting my time, and you can't deny
In "Lies" by Joe and Will Ask?, the lyrics delve into themes of longing, deception, and personal growth. The song begins with the singer expressing their desire to be set free from a situation they feel trapped in. They mention having remnants in their mind, indicating that they are holding onto memories or thoughts instead of experiencing real liberation.
The line "Paint the town is what she often said" suggests that there is someone in the singer's life who encourages them to embrace life and enjoy themselves. However, as the singer drifts "a thousand miles in [their] head," it becomes clear that they are mentally detached, unable to fully engage with the present moment.
The repetition of "You'll never let go, you'll never let go" implies that the singer feels suffocated by the person or situation they are dealing with. They accuse this person of wasting their time with beautiful lies and a cheap disguise. It seems that the one causing the deception is unable to let go of the past and is constantly looking back.
In the second verse, the singer advises taking risks even when faced with uncertainty. They emphasize the importance of making the best of any situation and not allowing opportunities to pass by. The mention of a "jaded friend" suggests that the singer may be speaking to themselves or reflecting on their own jaded mindset.
The chorus is repeated once again, claiming that the person who has been deceiving the singer cannot deny the fact that they have been wasting their time. The lyrics express a determination to break free from this cycle of deception and start anew. The singer declares that it is time to make a life and never give up, implying a desire for personal growth and a willingness to leave behind judgment and accept the beautiful lie as each person's own truth.
Overall, "Lies" by Joe and Will Ask? explores the longing for liberation from a suffocating situation, the frustration caused by deceptive behavior, and the importance of taking chances and embracing personal growth without judgment. It serves as a reminder to recognize one's own power in breaking free from patterns of deception and pursuing a more fulfilling life.
Line by Line Meaning
I've been waiting for you to let me out again
I've been longing for you to release me from this situation once more
Remnants in my mind is what I have instead
All I have left are fragments in my thoughts
Paint the town is what she often said
She frequently talked about going out and having a good time
As I drift a thousand miles in my head
While my mind wanders aimlessly for a great distance
You'll never let go, you'll never let go
You will always hold on, never releasing your grip
You're looking back
You are reflecting on the past
You've been wasting my time with your beautiful lies
You've been using your attractive falsehoods to consume my time
You've been wasting my time with your cheap disguise
You've been squandering my time with your deceptive facade
Walk along the road around the blinded bend
Travel down the path even when it becomes uncertain
Take a chance even when your chances end
Seize opportunities even when they seem to be disappearing
Find the time to make the best of it
Discover moments to optimize the situation
Don't know what's in front of you, my jaded friend
You are unaware of what lies ahead, my disillusioned companion
Gonna take a chance and make a run for it
Going to seize an opportunity and make a quick escape
Time to make a life and never quit
It's time to build a fulfilling life and never give up
Who am I to judge, to each their own
I have no authority to criticize others, everyone has their own choices
Who am I to judge the beautiful lie, the beautiful lie
Who am I to criticize the enticing falsehood, the enticing falsehood
You've been wasting my time, and you can't deny
You've been using up my time, and it's undeniable
Lyrics © DistroKid
Written by: Joseph Jeffries
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Piñata Oblongata
@9y2bgy "humans are more than the sum of quantitative measurements"
Please provide objective evidence to support that statement. I think you'd agree we still have a LOT more to learn about our biology and in particular our brains - how do you know we could not describe ourselves adequately with the TOTALITY of the knowledge there is to gather in this area?
People never would have thought we would understand how viruses work or genes or proteins or stars or gravity or barely any of the things we now know tons about. At various points in time some physicists have had the hubris to say we now know everything there is to know, because they've been so awed by how much we've pieced together!
It doesn't really make any different if humans tend to do this human thing of wanting to find this human concept of "meaning". There is no objective meaning, there is only being and causality. We are gene survival machines, here to disseminate our genes to the next generation, and apart from that, purpose is whatever we make it. Meaning is subjective.
Life would not be boring if everyone understood some basic principles about what is real and how science works. We'd just get on with making and unbelievably awesome future of the likes of Star Trek, unencumbered by tribalism and religious zealots and false beliefs and people succumbing to propaganda. So don't worry about converting people to reason, I say that's your duty, especially as someone who has known the darkness of ignorance and realised their folly.
Dragrath1
@Pak De While this isn't a liberal arts thing as a whole yeah there is unfortunately a lot of truth in this at least in the US. It has unfortunately become apparent that education has been a cover for forming an institutionalized public day care under the lens of education thus the most important aspect of education critical thinking is straight up never taught with curriculums decided primarily by politics not by actual evidence and research on how the human brain works. As such the way schooling is done is primarily controlled with the election/appointment cycle which leads to what my mom and other teachers call the swinging pendulum. This leads to incongruities like kids being "taught" fractions before multiplication yet alone division.
We put off having kids think when young just like we put off having them exercise or eat tough foods but that unfortunately the human body is wired by usage so that which never gets used in early development does not develop because nature is lazy.
I.e. we should be challenging our kids far more not less rational critical thinking needs to be taught from the beginning by continuous exposure well before a child can intuitively understand it, perhaps even preverbal skills since infants and 1 year olds can pick up and process a shocking amount of information from their environments in terms of culture and beliefs. The human brain is something which develops gradually as we age really up until our mid late 20's for judgement sections but pathways are being laid out from the beginning when cellular differentiation starts building a brain in utero.
The brain like our muscles works by the principal use it or lose it. Neurons and muscles both are highly energy intensive tissues reliant on ion mediated action impulses.
It seems both have some degree of electrical and mechanical impulses which have been respectively specialized for their respective roles electrical for neurons and mechanical for muscles but they are functionally derived from the same evolutionary origin in the ion pathways used by prokaryotic organisms to interact with their environment. While we don't fully understand it this ion mediated signaling seems to based on work studying the the nature of anesthesia to be a core critically conserved biological pathway *inherited at the minimum, from the Last Universal Common Ancestor(LUCA) (~3.9 Ga around 4 billion years ago) and conserved across all domains of life. No organism lacks this system it is deeply conserved across all known prokaryotic life with Eukaryotes further specializing in its expression as complexity arose.
Repurposing this system for locomotion and large scale coordination has been a huge evolutionary driver for animals both in terms of energy and resources. Bones for instance appear to have evolved originally as mineral storage of calcium the most important ion for mediating these reactions only gaining structural functions millions of years later which explains both why bone atrophy occurs in low gravity environments and why evolution favors min maxing these pathways whenever it can.
Most of our calories go to these two systems so we have evolved ways to minimize the amount of energy needed for these systems in the sake of survival hence it literally is a use it or lose it situation. Humans anscestors were able to gradually enhance the expression of these pathways through a number of evolutionary adaptations over time fixed neuron size in early primates, a chromosome rearranging mutation within ancestral hominids after they split from chimps effectively increasing the total metabolic budget or the amount of calories used now before further calories are invested into storage i.e. fat (note the con for this adaptation the development of effective long term food preservation and storage was probably also very important for making this possible), the incorporation of meat into our diets several million years ago, the eventual development of cooking food at least by H. Erectus allowing our digestive tracks the other major energy expensive system to be strongly reduced, the late arrival of pastural herding and agriculture further loosening the limitations on calorie availability.
Note that further technological development has only widened this over availability largely playing a driving role in obesity. We evolved to minimize calories used trying to survive in a very volatile climate of Africa and the Middle East as precession cyclically flipflops the region between grassland and savanna climates and hot desert every 20,000 years for at least the last 8 million years with the onset of the northern hemisphere ice ages only exacerbating this effect. Food was not a guarantee or reliable we scrapped for every bit we could so spending the least calories to accomplish what we needed was paramount. We developed large brains not because we could but because we had to to survive. With our cushy modern lifestyles we no longer have to develop these pathways anymore and thus we have over the last 80,000 years steadily reduced our brain size and development as we outsourced the role of these once arduous cognitive tasks to others in increasingly socially complex tribes/clans/societies.
The strong expression of these pathways really heralds their true role in making us what we are. We are in essence victims of our own success.
I think an important insight is that objectively we can't know with 100% confidence what facts are true but we can using the evidence at hand always evaluate the likelihood of a given idea or hypothesis of approaching truth. This is the nature of what science is a method to approach objective reality to our best ability as limited observers which has been crucial to our advancement despite our strong cognitive biases.
Facts and the concept of an absolute truth thus are a mathematical abstractions like infinity represents incomprehensibly large numbers they serve as a limit as we asymptotically converge towards truth.
Because we teach our children around the concept of "facts" the average child never learns about the true nature of knowledge and humanity. Humans have to some extent undergone eusocial selection over the last 80,000 years developing social intelligence somewhat at the expense of individual intelligence which was extremely high but was mostly lost with each generation. The change in cognition comes with its own consequences as we see the first evidence of large scale group conflicts or wars really ramping up in scale and brutality. Given what we observe in other animals that have undergone eusocial selection in particular ants at the most extreme example the tendency towards violence will only become more and more extreme if we continue evolving down this path.
Reason and logic and ultimately the scientific method represent our species first hope the potential to break free of our set of trade offs in our quest for true sapience which like truth and infinity is likely an unreachable abstraction. We can be sapient but *only with the awareness and knowledge to act against our instincts when they conflict with reality*.
PCU: The Universe-ity of IDEAS
How very sad is that? FIFTEEN years--
As someone who suffered (needlessly!!) YEARS of anxiety and depression bc "it runs in our family" I can tell you: you do not have to be at the mercy of your mind (anxiety in its simplest context is only a BAD HABIT OF THOUGHT). Get yourself the book The Panic Attack Recovery book (it explains the physical chain reactions happening when in the grips of anxiety and how to stop the domino effect) and realize that the ONLY thing you have complete control over is the thoughts you allow to run through your mind.
I know--when that looping starts it feels like it's out of your hands but it is not. Stop--and very much on purpose, fill your mind with things that feel a little bit better...you CAN stop the looping. DECIDE TO feel better (all of this is under the assumption you truly WANT to feel better. Like any crutch, "anxiety" gets us out of a lot of things--"I can't do xyz...bc of my anxiety..." blah blah blah) IF you're ready to LIVE your LIFE--fully and happily. Decide to. Today.
START this moment and make a list of things that just make you feel good: puppies, sunshine, fall colors, Christmas lights, finger painting--whatever lights you up (and there are MILLIONS OF THINGS--you may have to dig through the crust of old thought patterns to find them--but they're there. I promise. When that dark stuff starts wandering in--look to your list and focus on that. It's a super simple tool but it stops the looping that that's what we're going for here.
You can LIVE--enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the excursions, enjoy the adventures, enjoy the play, enjoy the music--if you DECIDE TO and make tiny changes every day all day in your thought habits. You can't go from -11 to 10+ on the feel-good scale but you most certainly can go from -11 to -5. Then to "0" --which is way better than -11, right??? What you're doing is inching your way to feeling better. Then to feeing better more of the time..then to feeling better most of the time. It's totally do-able And you're worth it. Just give it a try.
Freyjinn
This is the perfect video i needed. Even if i'm very spiritual, being told rational scientific facts relieve a lot of stress in me, i mean realizing that anxious thoughts or OCD are just neuron paths too well done lol. Like we say, the old horse knows the path too well, gotta put that freaking horse on a new track xD
Rumble
I don't know how true this is for you but I solved my life long anxiety and mental health issues with food. I eat lots of fat and meat, fish, eggs etc and limit sugar and starches. Completely changed my outlook on life, it's too profound a change to be a fluke.
9y2bgy
@Piñata Oblongata Why would I provide an objective evidence for a subjective statement? If you want to tackle the question of meaning of life using only quantitative scientific evidences, go right ahead.
I do agree that we aren't close knowing the totality of our biological capabilities. Yet what is clear is that as of today we know more about it than at any previous times. Yet we are no more happier or fulfilled than when we lived in ignorance. And to be fair, everything you said about the purpose of our existence - the dissemination of genes to future generations - can be done without any scientific knowledge at all. Homo sapiens have been doing that for well over 300,000 years.
I would say tribalism is built into our DNA. I bet you engage in tribalism by separating those who are educated vs those who are ignorant. Ignorance isn't all by choice around the world. It is in our society, but it isn't in other parts of the world. In your world "they" belong to the "other side" bc they are ignorant of how the "real" world works. You identify with the group that is enlightened whilst you see the others as potential converts or people to ignore or disparage. That has been the founding principle of most religions in human history.
As I said, I personally find the dialogue to be more important than answering who has the right of it. I'm not interested in converting people to reason. I'd say you've been struggling to do that by ripping a new one on those who don't believe in science and science only. I just like to converse, find out why they believe in god/gods/force/whatever.
Piñata Oblongata
@9y2bgy "humans are more than the sum of quantitative measurements"
Please provide objective evidence to support that statement. I think you'd agree we still have a LOT more to learn about our biology and in particular our brains - how do you know we could not describe ourselves adequately with the TOTALITY of the knowledge there is to gather in this area?
People never would have thought we would understand how viruses work or genes or proteins or stars or gravity or barely any of the things we now know tons about. At various points in time some physicists have had the hubris to say we now know everything there is to know, because they've been so awed by how much we've pieced together!
It doesn't really make any different if humans tend to do this human thing of wanting to find this human concept of "meaning". There is no objective meaning, there is only being and causality. We are gene survival machines, here to disseminate our genes to the next generation, and apart from that, purpose is whatever we make it. Meaning is subjective.
Life would not be boring if everyone understood some basic principles about what is real and how science works. We'd just get on with making and unbelievably awesome future of the likes of Star Trek, unencumbered by tribalism and religious zealots and false beliefs and people succumbing to propaganda. So don't worry about converting people to reason, I say that's your duty, especially as someone who has known the darkness of ignorance and realised their folly.
9y2bgy
@Piñata Oblongata I'm with you in terms of using science to measure quantitative characteristics of any animate and inanimate objects that exist in our reality. Science is ultimately a superior methodology for this than religion, philosophy, etc.
However, humans are more than the sum of quantitative measurements. Even if we knew all the characteristics of all things in the universe, it would still not be enough bc ultimately we look for the MEANING of our existence. I would not say all humans do, but the vast majority seek meaning in life.
I grew up subscribing to religion, and now I'm either an agnostic or more likely an atheist. However, what I find meaningful is the DIALOGUE that takes place between various disciplines. I'm not interested in converting anyone to my view bc if everyone thought lie me, life would be boring as hell.
Piñata Oblongata
@9y2bgy "How did you perceive this "fact"?"
It is born out by the fact that science works. Science presupposes it as a fact and if the rules of reality kept constantly changing from minute to minute, starting with that presupposition would not help us arrive at understanding those rules, or coming up with hypotheses and theories with predictive power, or executing manufacturing processes that give us computers that work, etc.
The subjective experience of a rock is one thing. Objective descriptions of said rock can arise from repeated subjective experience by multiple people using the scientific method. SO I might have a subjective idea of what it feels like to hold the rock, but we can describe how hard it is on a hardness scale with reference to other objects/materials, describe it's weight in kilograms with a universal definition of the kilogram that no longer relies on a comparison to another physical object, reach a consensus on the minerals and elements therein, etc.
LibertyMatrix
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
~ Thomas Sowell
Force 15
@W J none of us can be self critical because as we approach the belief that we may be wrong or bad, our brain will try to disregard that thought, but I do think that the method you mentioned helps us stop the bias to a degree but it doesn't completely defeat it
W J
@E Fleisher This comment seems strangely out of place to me. I think...there are a large group of people here who completely missed the purpose of this video. Thomas Sowell was critical but was he sufficiently SELF-critical? Did he constantly challenge his own beliefs or did he remain firmly resolute in his conclusion, unwavered by new details? I doubt myself all the time. I think it forces me to be more observant, particularly when it comes to human behavior.
Butch Cassidy
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