new green day compressed to extinction?

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FALKEN said:
....why does the most successful punk rock artist of all time walk the road of broken dreams anyway? doesn't that make you want to just strangle him??? what dreams are broken?????? what MORE could you ask for???

Haha...you get rep points for that one. I've said that exact thing to anyone who happens to be near me when that video comes on.

What makes it even more hilarious for me is that he keeps on repeating the line, "...I walk alone..." and the other two guys are right there in the video walking beside him. How ridiculous. Couldn't they have taken 3 extra minutes and shot some footage of BJ actually "walking alone"?

I won't even go into why he's the real "American Idiot". The lyrics to that song crack me up.
 
FALKEN said:
....why does the most successful punk rock artist of all time walk the road of broken dreams anyway? doesn't that make you want to just strangle him??? what dreams are broken?????? what MORE could you ask for???

EleKtriKaz said:
What makes it even more hilarious for me is that he keeps on repeating the line, "...I walk alone..." and the other two guys are right there in the video walking beside him. How ridiculous. Couldn't they have taken 3 extra minutes and shot some footage of BJ actually "walking alone"?

And, if you listen closely, he's actually saying "I woggle on, I woggle on."
 
yea, I'm just about done and sick of Idiot cd. And the lyrics are contributing to the illness of it, the more I read the iller I get.

So maybe it was the mastering stage? Or Lord-Algee mixing it? Anyone have info on that guy? I haven't had time to google him.
 
junplugged said:
Or Lord-Algee mixing it? Anyone have info on that guy? I haven't had time to google him.
He's one of the best. That man has a way with controlling the low end of a song that is incredible. All hail the Lord-Alge brothers... except when the dumb band says 'make it louder, man! I said bleeding ears!"
 
We may not like what they did as engineers, but my bet is that the general public eats it up:D
 
old green day is just as loud and it doesn't sound like shit. it has to do with the compression algorithms, i think.
 
I'll go back and listen to Dookie, as soon as I'm done eliminating the new one from my ears, and compare.
 
Yes, this is something that I've been thinking about alot lately too. There are now endless examples of records that are so "loud" that they audibly distort and are compressed to death. And not in a good or cool way. Morrissey's current album is the one that drives me crazy, it seems like it was recorded very well, but I just can't listen to it. It gives me a headache. It truely seems as if they took mastering settings for the "single" and used that boilerplate for all the other songs without even listening to the results.

Is it really the bands that ask for this? And does anyone else wonder if this will ultimately hurt big studios?

I, as a home recordist, find myself less inclined to even think about going to a "real" studio these days. I know it isn't the studio's fault, but CD's that I buy commonly sound like crap. Why bother with paying for studio time, I can make crappy sounding recordings here at my house with what I've got!

That's an unfair statement, I know...but I'm just trying to point out my perception (right or wrong).

I think that it would be great for studios to demand that this over-compressed sound stops (or demand that there's a "radio version" and the real version of an album). This, I think, will help studio business.

There seem to be gobs of new people making recordings, and there seems to be a perception that this is hurting big studios. I think, on the other hand, of this as gobs of new "leads" for studios. When home recorders get frustrated with their sound, they should consider going to a studio for important projects, or even parts of projects. Home recorders should not hear crappy sounding commercial releases and think, "why bother with the real studio?" and then buy a new "tube warmth" plug-in.
 
then on top of it the radio station plays freakin mp3's and compresses it another 20db. what the hell is everyone thinking.
 
FALKEN said:
then on top of it the radio station plays freakin mp3's and compresses it another 20db. what the hell is everyone thinking.
does radio really play mp3's?
 
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