My only gripe with Stadium Arcadium (which I owned and play the over and over and over in the year of it's release) is it's mastered poorly. I didn't hear this of course when the CD came out because I didn't understand much of quality audio gear but now it's sort of a love/hate listening to that album. I want to feel the fun, the funk, the uniqueness of the album but now I hear all the distortions that's not meant to be there.. ignorance is bliss and I can say that I much enjoyed it back then than now.
Which other solo albums do you recommend? It seems Spotify has all of them to sample and of course to go and support the artist with a purchase.
Hi BaconSound,
I'll start by saying that I think my first post created an unintentional impression.
(leave it up to me to do that in my 3rd post here ...)
I did want to clear up that when i say 'the masses' i do not mean the people on head-fi, i'd actually consider the people here to be very different from the masses and (at least with music) much better.
I was listening to stadium arcadium while writing that post and I haven't listened to it in a while, i'm very passionate about music as it is, but when i listen to that album, its an emotional experience.
Why don't i listen to an album i regard so highly??? because the mastering is poor!
Lana del rey (the original, the remaster of the original, and her new ultraviolent all suffer from this...)
Perhaps someone can help me understand why this happened. I mean there are so many albums that, in the least, don't distort, so how did this happen?
I don't understand a lot of audio stuffs, my background is more someone who tried to become a musician.
I've lurked these forums for long minute before joining.
I will edit this later... work.
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so anyways, nothing but the highest respect for the head-fi community, i hope i can become a productive member.
to answer the question about frusciante's solo albums, my first response is that there are a lot (and they are on youtube, some are official uploads)
i have not listened to any of them a lot except empyrean, but i just got enclosure.
i'd group albums like Niandra Lades / Smile from the Streets as 'notebooks', you can hear a lot of good ideas in these albums but they don't seem like finished statements.
Water for Ten Days / Inside of Emptiness is john trying to sing.
Empyrean is good, his singing is better (instead of trying to sing, it's actually singing).
PBX/Encolsure is exploring/experimenting with sound through a less bounded instrument (electronica).
I personally like PBX/Enclosure, I mean it's at a point where it's exploratory.
That's kinda what I meant by 'stopped doing music the masses can understand' (yes, I didn't state this exactly this way in the first post).
Kinda like how you can hear the progression in classical music or jazz, it just gets harder and harder to understand without the background info.
e.g., from classical to romantic to 20th century to modern
e.g., from blues to big band to trad to bebop to free
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listening to enclosure now, the mastering is fantastic (i think... there are some minimal pops, i cannot tell if intentional).
frusciante on his 2015 album trickfinger (i don't have this yet)
from wiki:
Frusciante on the album: "I started being serious about following my dream to make electronic music, and to be my own engineer, five years ago"
i mean, artistry is being an experimenter, an explorer, getting bored with the same thing.
i think frusciante is a real artist, a real bohemian.
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sounds very good but distortion does seem unintentional
