Why does it need to? It's art, it doesn't need any further point....t most of it can't even justify its own existence.
Did it? Joe Dolce's Shaddap You Face? Flying Lizards' cover of Money? My Old Man's a Dustman? Lilly the Pink? Or krap like Macarthur Park? I think music was probably even more vacuuous and mattered even less back then. There was certainly no music that really meant anything to me before Punk. As in literally no music that I would ever care to hear again. Not from my childhood or my teen years. Nothing. Even after 1977, 99% of it was still worthless garbage. Of course, today it's more like 99.99% krap but that was inevitable and that 0.01% that isn't krap is still a lot of music.I want my music to sound like it was created 40 years ago, when music actually mattered a little bit.
Yes and engineers spent lifetimes trying to get rid of it because it was/is unwanted, which is why I don't understand why you're so obsessed with it.I just want it to sound like it was recorded in a real place, with real gear, by real people. There is a subtle harmonic enhancement that transistors and oxide imparts.
I bet a lot of artists and producers of the day wished they had known that. They wouldn't have had to spend weeks or months in the studio getting it all as good as it could be, they could have just recorded it live in one session and been done with it.The magic of analogue records is the ambiguity. Not every note is entirely clear. But that is what captivates the listener and excites the mind at the possibilities.
We've been asked a few times about doing vinyl but we refuse because we don't want to take advantage of deluded idiots who think there is some magic in it. It doesn't seem right.
Statistics: Posted by BONES — Thu Sep 26, 2024 12:42 am