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| From | Mark London <mrl@psfc.mit.edu> |
| Subject | Re: New Christs |
| Date | Sat, 8 Nov 2003 22:17:51 -0500 |
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>From: Gabriel Fuentes <gabriel.fuentes@sbcglobal.net>
>Ok folks, the freakin New Christs' cd "We Got This" is all killer..no filler
>The cd is not power pop but many of you on this list will just love this..
>Rob Younger sounds as great as ever..
>it is the groove and the feeling that this cd gives when one is
>listening to it that makes reek of pure unadulterated classic..where
>are my Birdman cds?
Rob Younger has a great voice, and I'm a big fan of the Radio Birdman
albums. Unfortunately, after that band, he went on to make a lot of
heavy rock that had none of the great mix of pop and rock and great
lyrics (due to Deniz Tek) that Birdman had. A lot of people like the
heavy sound, so I can't criticize his later music, if I'm simply not
a fan of it. However, what I can criticize, is how he and the
Birdman bass player bastardized the Birdman albums when they remixed
them in 1995 when they were issued on CDs, giving them a blaringly
heavy and irritating sound, and eliminated all of the pop feel.
Either their hearing had degraded so much by then, that they couldn't
tell what they were doing. Or, they were trying to attract the
grunge crowd of the 1990s. In either case, it's hard on my ears,
especially when I listen to it with headphones. I would rather
listen to real grunge music, or punk music, or about anything else
out there, than what they ended up with. I wonder whether they
considered that many people these days listen to music using portable
CD players with headphones, where the music is right up against your
ears, and where you have no way of decreasing the bass (but you can
get extra bass). However, even decreasing the bass, still doesn't
fix the other processing which they applied to the music. Especially
on Living Eyes, where they have totally thrown away Tek's vision of
how the music was to mixed.
So, on and off for the last couple of years, I've been working on a
making a transfer of the vinyl albums to CDRs, and making them sound
as best as possible, using a variety of editing techniques. And it's
an interesting coincidence that you posted about Rob, when just today
I finally completed the CDRs (I've sent previous versions of the CDs
to a couple of people on this list, but these are even more defect
and noise free). If anyone is curious how the LPa compare to the
CDs, I have a web page with clips that highlights some of the
differences:
http://web.mit.edu/london/www/r.html
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