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Elmo Lewis
I know absolutely nothing of the technical aspects, I just know the album sounds muffled (for lack of a better word). Maybe dull.
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Spud
We all have different tastes and values when it comes to sound quality...and, obviously, different playback systems...
But some folks I think equate "good" sound with a big impressive "in yer face" and overtly HiFi presentation ...which isn't always what you want from a recording.
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Taylor1
I like the soundproduction on Hackney.Watt and his team should remix IORR
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Spud
We all have different tastes and values when it comes to sound quality...and, obviously, different playback systems...
But some folks I think equate "good" sound with a big impressive "in yer face" and overtly HiFi presentation ...which isn't always what you want from a recording.
True. What you said earlier is very much the way I feel about Hackney Diamonds. While I like it a lot, I don't really feel the need to hear it again. It holds no secrets.
Re the IORr album, and sound issues, it seems that it is only a few songs that are the main offenders. IMO 'If you cant rock me', and 'Luxury' are mixed and mastered badly. Right behind "Dance Little Sister' and "Aint too proud to beg' don't really sound all that bad. It's more like they over played them, and ended up with a sterile, sanitized take.
As I write this I'm thinking that in mid 70's it was the fast rockers that suffered. One could say that 'Crazy Mama' is pretty lead footed.
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Spud
We all have different tastes and values when it comes to sound quality...and, obviously, different playback systems...
But some folks I think equate "good" sound with a big impressive "in yer face" and overtly HiFi presentation ...which isn't always what you want from a recording.
True. What you said earlier is very much the way I feel about Hackney Diamonds. While I like it a lot, I don't really feel the need to hear it again. It holds no secrets.
Re the IORr album, and sound issues, it seems that it is only a few songs that are the main offenders. IMO 'If you cant rock me', and 'Luxury' are mixed and mastered badly. Right behind "Dance Little Sister' and "Aint too proud to beg' don't really sound all that bad. It's more like they over played them, and ended up with a sterile, sanitized take.
As I write this I'm thinking that in mid 70's it was the fast rockers that suffered. One could say that 'Crazy Mama' is pretty lead footed.I was referring to B&B at the time.
An album that most folks think sounds great...and it does in many ways...
..but it's too transparent ...not enough layers to peel off and decipher over time. When you've played it...you've heard it all.
Does that make any sense ?
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Bashlets
I thought Giles Martin did a great job with GHS.
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Lynd8
Good album, but for some reason I hardly ever play it - anyone else same?
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Lynd8
Good album, but for some reason I hardly ever play it - anyone else same?
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Lynd8
Good album, but for some reason I hardly ever play it - anyone else same?
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DiamondDog7
The final album with mister Taylor! Still my (Stones)hero!
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Bashlets
I thought Giles Martin did a great job with GHS.
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Bashlets
I thought Giles Martin did a great job with GHS.
Giles Martin destroyed the mix of Dancing With Mr.D.
He took the female scream out of the song, now it is a clean nice version and not the deep dark version of the original.
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Lynd8
Good album, but for some reason I hardly ever play it - anyone else same?
In phases.
It's important to leave The Big Four behind and listen elsewhere. That's why GHS, IORR, BAB, ER, TY and U get played often enough - I don't need to listen to BB, LIB, SF and EOMS ever again, only if I want to. There's way more to the Stones than the 4 and 2.
I hardly listen to SG: it's really not that good. I get it but it's not something that works as well as TY or even U.
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Lynd8
Good album, but for some reason I hardly ever play it - anyone else same?
I see where you are coming from.
I often find myself struggling to appreciate the two post-Big Four albums, i.e. Goats Head Soup and It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll.
For me, GHS is too esoteric and unfocused while IORR is too accessible and more or less lacking the mystery that made the Big Four so fascinating.
That being said, of the two, I prefer IORR to GHS, for the overall songwriting is better of the two IMHO, and it contains Time Waits For No One, the greatest Rolling Stones song they have never played live.