Musicological banter

[hutch]

Ive always felt that the excessive compression on Signals - which renders it unlistenable - is one of the worst tragedies of the era.

I mean, besides the, y’know, actual problems.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s a great album that’s painful to listen to. I sometimes still do though.

Wow. I do not agree assuming you are talking about Rush…was just playing in car last week..just a regular American version with the atom design on cd

I mean maybe I don’t know what excessive compression sounds like

It’s not brickwalled or ear fatiguing

[sweetcell]

yeah, i was confused too... i had to google "Signals" to see if any other bands released a similarly titled album, didn't find anything.

HOWEVER, per the googles, apparently Signals does get knocked for being much more compressed/bricked than anything they had put out before that.  wasn't something i ever noticed...  the shift to more keyboards probably also contributes to the wall-of-sound effect.

[hutch]

Never noticed then again my first copy was a super shitty Argentine cassette.

But I have listened to lp and cd and never noticed

What I do knock is that the album feels a bit slight to me…. I like it a lot but it’s no moving pictures or grace or power windows

Obviously subdivisions is amazing….the reggae tune..pfft

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the reggae tune..pfft

It can’t possibly be worse than a roll the bones

[hutch]

Nobody mentioned this??

https://www.stereogum.com/2308289/pavement-play-colbert-ten-years-after-false-alarm-announce-movie-soundtrack/news/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKUp-VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvvuG0jG7L9nuozPqMX4sKCozGM3FPhyNVUzI67gJONVZZhVjaEGFFX092N5_aem_8C7hg5hAzDCUqFIKV1924Q

[grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli]

TIL that each speaker in a line array runs between $10k and $20k, so a full setup could reach $250k 😮

[hutch]

Always been glad am not an audiophile. I mean I hate brickwalled music which literally hurts my ears but other than that I blast it and it sounds great. Was reading about all this autotune applied to Freddie’s voice in those Queen 74 CDs and I just don’t hear it!! Thank god. For some it ruins their enjoyment of the music and they get really bothered and angry

[kosmo vinyl]

oh hey 2025 can still give us nice things

New Spiltsville out at some point and I saw that Greenberry Woods were working on a new album as well

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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett & Robert Trujillo did Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” during their doodle at Wednesday night’s (5/28) DC-area show.
Ian MacKaye was reportedly in the audience with a smile on his face during the jam, a “reliable source”

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-metallica-jam-fugazis-waiting-room-at-dc-area-show/

[kosmo vinyl]

This made me chuckle

Breaking 🚨: Taylor Swift happily announces that she now owns all of her albums, including her 6 initial ones.

[Bagley]

look who's a Viagras fan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGT2tw0y_s&ab_channel=Amoeba

[Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK]

This made me chuckle

Breaking 🚨: Taylor Swift happily announces that she now owns all of her albums, including her 6 initial ones.

We can still get Reputation (Taylor’s Version) if Mike Pence has the courage . . .

[kosmo vinyl]

I did not have Robbie Williams releasing a monster banger of a tune with Tony Iommi on guitar, but here it is... Also, him calling the new album "Britpop" should put many noses out of joint.  In the video he's wearing a t-shirt with the Motorhead logo that says Milli Vanilli

now about that promised US tour 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfAFBOECxw4

[hutch]

More like a Hutch fan!!

I was listening to the Kicker two days ago….he really didn’t say much and the two points I would make: same musicians as Grant Green’s Idle moments which is legendary AND the kicker was unreleased for decades. 

[Yada]

This looks promising

https://www.concertarchives.org/