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theplatypus wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
theplatypus wrote:The Blue Nile is one of the most underrated bands of all time, and their album Hats is a masterpiece
I'm listening to this right now and it's kind of destroying me. Holy fuck, what a great record!
Right? It's an after-hours go-to for me. Every song is good and the production + arrangements are so lush and evocative. I love it... top 10 eighties album for sure
Absolutely.

This is going to become a regular rotation record for me. Thank you so much for the rec.
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theplatypus wrote:The Blue Nile is one of the most underrated bands of all time, and their album Hats is a masterpiece
durdencommatyler wrote:Thank you so much for the rec.
Yeah, this is great and I'm embarrassed it's bypassed me until now.
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So Alexa was on random and Crazy Train came on. It put me in the mood for more so I asked the machine to shuffle some Ozzy songs. Bark at the Moon came on and the guitar was almost 100% not what I remember playing on Guitar Hero.
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And this was after the crap Black Sabbath had to go through.

Also I have never heard of The Blue Nile but am looking forward to hearing them after the past few posts.
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Listening to "A Walk Across the Rooftops" for the first time and it's like David Bowie did an album with Wilco circa YHF.
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I had Hats on cd like 10 years ago. I got it from a friend of mine who is a huge audiophile, and he was telling me how the album has amazing sound quality. According to him, from a sound quality perspective, it was one the best albums ever recorded. I gave it a few spins but it did absolutely nothing to me. It felt over produced and "sterile", so I gave it away.
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contamination wrote:According to him, from a sound quality perspective, it was one the best albums ever recorded.
This is a terrible way to recommend music to someone.
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I would love that actually
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:I would love that actually
Wait, I understood you were a confirmed “loudness war” sceptic?

I always thought it was hard to reconcile that with your appreciation (certainly way beyond mine) of the technical aspects of film making/home viewing.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I would love that actually
Wait, I understood you were a confirmed “loudness war” sceptic?

I always thought it was hard to reconcile that with your appreciation (certainly way beyond mine) of the technical aspects of film making/home viewing.
Not a skeptic; the loudness war is very real and definitely annoying. However, I am not opposed to brickwalling as an intentional sonic choice in certain contexts (like The Woods). The thing I have always been skeptical of is “ear fatigue.”

But good production is something I crave in whatever form that may take. Sometimes that means loud and messy (Steve Albini), but often it means clean, crisp, and clear (Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac). I feel like I could get much more out of an audiophile recommending good-sounding music than I could out of some person who is very unlikely to share my general musical proclivities.
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Birds in Hell wrote:
contamination wrote:According to him, from a sound quality perspective, it was one the best albums ever recorded.
This is a terrible way to recommend music to someone.
For some people it's actually the main criteria when they choose what to listen. For my friend, the sound quality made it one the best albums ever, and I guess partly for that reason the album is still popular among the audiophiles (e.g. https://www.tnt-audio.com/topics/hats_e.html).
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Blue Nile, bleh
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Had a nice morning cleaning the house and listening to Jenny Lewis.
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People seem to be shitting on that new Madonna song, but for all the wrong reasons.

She's been obsessed with Latin-American culture for like 30 years. It's not like she's trying to capitalize on any current trend.
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bart wrote:Blue Nile, bleh
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run2death wrote:People seem to be shitting on that new Madonna song, but for all the wrong reasons.

She's been obsessed with Latin-American culture for like 30 years. It's not like she's trying to capitalize on any current trend.
It's a cynical reading but not without basis; both Maluma and reggaeton are huge on the international stage right now, and Madonna's long been accused of being a bit of a trend-chaser. But actually listening to song, it's not a generic reggaeton track cut from the "Despacito" cloth; it's spacier and weirder than that. If she had come out with something as dull and cookie-cutter as Pedro Capó's "Calma" (which might as well be titled "Despacito part 2") the accusations would make more sense
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Madonna has a new song? and sounds like a reggaeton? Thats hilarious.
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It's a reggaeton with Maluma. It is not good. But it is also not really a generic cash-in
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How can it possibly be good? No chance. Not a cash grab? of course it is.

Im thinking next song is with who...Rosalia?

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That would be dope. Rosalía is great
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Like I said, you can rip on it for it not being good, but she's been producing songs based on Latin-American trends since the mid-80s, when it wouldn't have been considered a "cash grab" to do so.

I think she has a history of legitimately feeling a huge affection towards Latin-America.
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