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What's The Use? · December 30, 2015 at Madison Square Garden | Audio Analysis | Foul Domain

← BACK·TRACKS·What's The Use?

CHARTED · JAM

Phish track · Set 2 · #19

What's The Use?

A 7-minute version from Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on 2015-12-30. Charted by the community.

DATE · 2015-12-30·SHOW · Madison Square Garden·LENGTH · 6:33·Type IBuildPeak

88TRACK

OF 72 VERSIONS

TOP VERSION · #1

ALL-TIME · #348 · 99th percentile

TRACK · SCORED v3.2← LEADERBOARD

What's The Use?

2015-12-30·Madison Square Garden·New York, NY

2015/2016 NEW YEAR'S RUN·Set 2·POS 19 / 196:33

88SCORE

COMPOSITE · RANK AMONG VERSIONS

v1 of 72

#1 ALL-TIME · WHAT'S THE USE? CATALOG

0:006:33

DEEP ANALYSIS · LIBROSA v3.24 OF 24

PEAK AT4:54of 6:33

DYN dB16.9wide

ONSET/s1.9open

BPM92era 3.0

How this version scoredMETHODOLOGY →

10 COMPONENTS · ONE COMPOSITEv3.3

0%306090100%

Popularity11%

28

Consensus10%

0

Jam Chart12%

100

Recognition12%

74

Energy12%

100

Groove12%

9

Harmonic9%

54

Duration9%

0

Volatility8%

100

Review5%

50

WEIGHTED · 100/100OPEN METHODOLOGY →

Charted jamPHISH.NET →

PHISH.NET JAM CHART · CURATOR NOTE

Unbelievable -> out of "Weekapaug." Drops into silence like Magnaball, then builds to a glorious peak.

Sounds like a late '90s "Hood" style peak. -> back into "Weekapaug" without hesitation. Superb version.

TYPE IBUILDPEAK

From this showSet 2 · 11 SONGS

2015-12-30 · Madison Square Garden

New York, NY · 2015/2016 NEW YEAR'S RUN · SHOW SCORE 71

71SHOW

Set 2

II-1Chalk Dust Torture22:45 II-2Ghost5:31 II-3Can't Always Listen5:12 II-4Ghost3:19 II-5Waves9:53 II-6Bathtub Gin15:17 II-7Mike's Song7:17 II-8Bouncing Around the Room3:43 II-9Weekapaug Groove5:00 II-10What's The Use?YOU ARE HERE6:33 II-11Weekapaug Groove3:43 OPEN FULL SHOW PAGE→

Other versions72 OF · SONG PAGE →

SAME SONG · RANKEDSWIPE →

06.25.00ALLTEL Pavilion at Walnut CreekRaleigh · NC87 08.27.21Gorge AmphitheatreGeorge · WA87 07.15.16Gorge AmphitheatreGeorge · WA82 07.04.99Lakewood AmphitheatreAtlanta · GA81 09.11.00Tweeter CenterMansfield · MA80

From this show3 TOP CUTS

SHOW STAND-OUTS · 2015-12-30SWIPE →

2·10Chalk Dust Torture22:4583 2·15Bathtub Gin15:1780 1·7Roggae9:2961

SONG →/songs/whats-the-use SHOW →/shows/2015-12-30-madison-square-garden-new-york-ny METHOD →/methodology

FOUL DOMAIN/tracks/32558 · v3.2

FOUL DOMAIN · INDEPENDENT · NOT AFFILIATED WITH PHISH

DISPLAY· TRACK SPECTRUMINPUT · TRACK_FEATURES.WAVEFORM

0:001:383:164:556:33

JAM IN · —PEAK · 4:55SAMPLE RATE 44.1 kHzSOURCE PHISH.IN

DEEP AUDIO ANALYSIS· LIBROSA CURVESENERGY · TEMPO · SPECTRUM

Radar · component scores0–100 normalized

Energy-12.5 dB

Loudness-6.8 dB

Dynamic range16.9 dB

Rhythmic density1.92/sec

Brightness1599 Hz

Flatness0.005

Harmonic variance0.060

Feature curves · over time0 → 6:33

EnergyLoudness envelope, dB

0:003:166:33

Perceptual loudnessShort-term LUFS, psychoacoustically weighted

0:003:166:33

BrightnessSpectral centroid — where the weight of the sound sits

0:003:166:33

Rhythmic densityOnsets per second, log-scaled

0:003:166:33

Tempo60–185 bpm · avg 111

0:003:166:33

Spectral flatnessTonal → noisy. Low = pitched; high = wash

0:003:166:33

READOUT· COMPOSITE SCORE · COMPONENT BREAKDOWN99TH PERCENTILE

Popularity11%28

Consensus10%0

Jam Chart12%100

Recognition12%74

Energy12%100

Groove12%9

Harmonic9%54

Duration9%0

Volatility8%100

Review5%50

SCORE FORMULA · v3.3 · RECALIBRATED 2026-05-13OPEN METHODOLOGY →

INSTRUMENTATION· LIBROSA · v0.10.25 / 6 CHANNELS LIVE

LENGTH6:33standard

BPM92average

DYN dB16.9wide dynamics

RHYTHM1.9/ssparse

PEAK4:55at 75%

JAM IN—auto only

PHISH.NET JAM CHART · CURATOR NOTE

Type IBuildPeak

Unbelievable -> out of "Weekapaug." Drops into silence like Magnaball, then builds to a glorious peak. Sounds like a late '90s "Hood" style peak. -> back into "Weekapaug" without hesitation. Superb version.

CONTEXT· SETLIST · SHOW

SETLISTSet 2

II-1Chalk Dust Torture22:45 II-2Ghost5:31 II-3Can't Always Listen5:12 II-4Ghost3:19 II-5Waves9:53 II-6Bathtub Gin15:17 II-7Mike's Song7:17 II-8Bouncing Around the Room3:43 II-9Weekapaug Groove5:00

II-10What's The Use?6:33

II-11Weekapaug Groove3:43

11 TRACKSVIEW SHOW →

SHOWSHOW SCORE 71

Madison Square Garden · New York, NY2015/2016 New Year's Run · RANKED #348 / 36131

TOP TRACKS THIS SHOW

Chalk Dust TortureSET 2 #10 · 22:45

Bathtub GinSET 2 #15 · 15:17

RoggaeSET 1 #7 · 9:29

2015-12-30VIEW SHOW →

RELATED· OTHER What's The Use? VERSIONS72 TOTAL

#SCOREVENUEWAVEFORMDATELENGTH

#0287ALLTEL Pavilion at Walnut CreekRaleigh, NC

2000-06-2510:09 #0387Gorge AmphitheatreGeorge, WA

2021-08-279:12 #0482Gorge AmphitheatreGeorge, WA

2016-07-156:25 #0581Lakewood AmphitheatreAtlanta, GA

1999-07-047:59 #0680Tweeter CenterMansfield, MA

Sign in to suggest correctionsTRACK ID · 32558· DATA VERSION v3.3