This feels like a topic we’ve prolly done countless times before in previous inceptions of The Meatrix, but a search finds nothing, so…
Last night I played a bog-standard CD of -
Which I only bought a few days ago. I bet most of you know it well. I didn’t until I heard it on the radio. It’s a fucking AMAZING recording - I mean holographic.
Made in 1963, it has minor faults (rigid 1 - 2 - 3 soundstage placement), but the sound is near perfect, so alive and Real.
I used to (mostly not) sell hifi - and one of the many sleights-of-hand you encounter with salesdrones is only playing superb recordings: stuff that flatters systems.
Being an idiot, I didn’t do that, just encouraged people to play music that was familiar, or that I liked, irrespective of quality. So I don’t have a mental catalogue of great recordings. Hence - in part - this thread: I’d love to hear about those gem-recordings that you know of - irrespective of genre.
Sadly, most music isn’t like this, and the more recent, the worse.
And yet . . . what REALLY frustrates me is that I’ll pick-up the occasional self-release from an artist, and they’ll be all like “Sorry it’s homemade - just me and a guitar and a portable recorder in the kitchen, hope you like it…” and it’ll be fucking superb: like they’re playing in the room for you.
But give it to a proper recording studio and . . .
Fucking why? I know pop gets compressed for airplay - albeit who the hell is actually listening to the radio these days? Also, it was blindingly obvious on radio that ‘Folk Singer’ was an exceptional recording that sounded great - so why this meme that you gotta screw-up recordings for radio/phones? Why do so many studio bands end-up sounding like they were recorded under a blanket on ‘My First Dictaphone’?
The fuck?
