Musical Opinion Amnesty Thread

[Elysian Red]

OK heres one for this thread: I don't listen to classic rock stuff much simply because the mixing/mastering is so bad compared to the sound quality from the 90s onward. Particulalry noticeable on headphones which I use most of the time.

Have to disagree. Modern production is pure bollocks, everything is maximised with no dynamics. You can see it in the waveforms, they're often just a solid block. Production of classic late 60's and 70's rock is amazing.. Sabbath, Zeppelin, Queen, Floyd etc etc. There's something to be said for keeping production simple with good mics, a good room and a good desk. Everything is chopped up to fuck in Pro Tools now

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Fuck me, I have to fast forward that cunt every time I watch The Last Waltz.

 

I blame my mum.  When i was growing up, she had loads of Neil Diamond albums.  Most of them, I just ignored, but I would borrow Beautiful Noise and Tap Root Manuscript to listen to on my own.  They're actually not bad.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'm not into all this music snobbery, just listen to what you like and let others enjoy what they like. 

Michael Ball or The Fall

I could listen to them all

 

[cloggypop]

I'm not into all this music snobbery, just listen to what you like and let others enjoy what they like.

That's all well and good until you are in the same pub as Stig and he's walking towards the jukebox.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

OK heres one for this thread: I don't listen to classic rock stuff much simply because the mixing/mastering is so bad compared to the sound quality from the 90s onward. Particulalry noticeable on headphones which I use most of the time.

 

 

Have to disagree. Modern production is pure bollocks, everything is maximised with no dynamics. You can see it in the waveforms, they're often just a solid block. Production of classic late 60's and 70's rock is amazing.. Sabbath, Zeppelin, Queen, Floyd etc etc. There's something to be said for keeping production simple with good mics, a good room and a good desk. Everything is chopped up to fuck in Pro Tools now

Setreal, have you been listening to stuff that was recorded on analogue equipment squished through some tinny digital shit?  

 

I recently dug out my vinyl copy of Abbey Road and I have to say, even a deaf old philistine like me can tell that you lose a lot on CDs or MP3s.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Due to her upcoming possible boxing career I thought I'd listen to a bit of Ellie Goulding's stuff today due to not having much of a clue about her music. There is not a great deal I like, I kind of like this track though. 

 

[Bjornebye]

Due to her upcoming possible boxing career I thought I'd listen to a bit of Ellie Goulding's stuff today due to not having much of a clue about her music. There is not a great deal I like, I kind of like this track though. 

 

 

 

She is a bad whopper. Hate her voice. I still hope she twats Hopkins all over the shop. 

[cloggypop]

I've heard as many songs by Katie Hopkins as I have by Ellie Goulding.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I only like the one lads. 

[stringvest]

[setreal]

Setreal, have you been listening to stuff that was recorded on analogue equipment squished through some tinny digital shit?  

 

I recently dug out my vinyl copy of Abbey Road and I have to say, even a deaf old philistine like me can tell that you lose a lot on CDs or MP3s.

 

I'm not saying I'm proud of it! But that is what my ears are telling me.

 

I'm not listining to mp3s btw - vinyl or lossless 9 times out of 10.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I like some Christmas carols.

 

I've just heard a choir doing "Oh Holy Night" and it was lovely.

[setreal]

I like some Christmas carols.

 

I've just heard a choir doing "Oh Holy Night" and it was lovely.

 

One of my favorite things about christmas as a kid was my "The Smurfs sing christmas classics" cassette tape.

[Tony Moanero]

I like some Christmas carols.

 

I've just heard a choir doing "Oh Holy Night" and it was lovely.

This isn't amnesty material, surely?

 

I like loads of Christmas carols.

[lifetime fan]

Rod Stewart.

[Tony Moanero]

Rod Stewart.

Fuck's sake, Rod's not amnesty material either.

[General Dryness]

Fuck's sake, Rod's not amnesty material either.

It is if he's bummed you.

 

Eh Lifey?

[Mook]

Rod Stewart used to be cool as fuck until the mid/late 70s when it all went a bit pear shaped.

 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Ben Folds is not amnesty material.

[VladimirIlyich]

Fuck's sake, Rod's not amnesty material either.

He is in my book.

[Tony Moanero]

Rod Stewart used to be cool as fuck until the mid/late 70s when it all went a bit pear shaped.

 

Boss beard, that. I seem to recall that he brought it back, for a while, in the early 90's.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Not into country and western that much but I like this track by "Little Big Town." The lead singer Karen Fairchild would get a gig, not bad for a 47 year old. 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Just listened to Motley Crue Home Sweet Home, what a horrible, cheesy, abominably produced, dreadfully performed, simply incredibly pathetically and woefully sung, terribly written, outrageously hideous, sub-humananly retarded, diarrhoea and vomiting inducing, heinously conceived, laughably brilliant and wonderful song.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Just listened to it again, nope, it's shite.

[General Dryness]

Everything Motley Crue did was utter shite.

 

Literally the definition of "No Killer, All Filler".