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Headphoneus Supremus
the best symfo ever.
Very enjoyable album, thanks! Smooth and melodic. Somehow similar to Marillion with Hogarth at their best.
"Night Sky" is mesmerising
the best symfo ever.
Wot no luv for the progenitor of the genre?!!!?!
Namely Sgt Pepper enjoying it's 50th anniversary and a fantastic remaster by Giles Martin. A truly incredible piece of work considering the primitive recording technology of the time.
Frankly, when one listens to the above, late 1950s, recordings, it makes 95% of the recordings, during the intervening, past 60 years, look like an absolute bloody disgrace, from a recording quality POV. Quite how recording engineers around the world could have produced such massively inferior recordings than the above 1957/1958 exemplars, even with the benefit of more modern equipment, is bewildering, but it displays (IMO) shocking incompetence and lack of diligence. Many of those recording engineers should be hanging their heads in shame.
Although they're obviously not perfect, when I heard the above late-50s recordings, I was absolutely bowled-over by how fabulous a job the recording engineers did with equipment sixty years ago - major respect to them for schooling their peers who would follow in their footsteps and utterly embarrass themselves and the industry by their relative ineptitude.
There is a universe of difference between recording rock 'n' roll with electric instruments and acoustic jazz and classical. By 1957 engineers have had over half a century to hone recording techniques for acoustic sounds, but no experience with amplified guitars, bass, drums, keyboards. That Buddy Holly track is unique because instead of his crickets, it's an orchestra, so he sounds more like Nat King Cole! Of course it would take engineers at least a decade to figure out rock!
Good album! I really like "The Motorway". It sounds like a classic rock hit. I get the same early Scorpions (Lonesome Crow / In Trance) vibe at the intense part from 4:13 on, and especially the vocals at 5:07, as it was the case with "Plastic Men" from "The Unreasonable Silence". Plus the acoustic guitar theme in the intro is so beautiful Led Zep. sounding.Cosmograf has just released their (his since Cosmograf is really just Robin Armstrong) 6th album 'The Hay-Man Dreams' in both 16/44.1 and 96/24 for the same price on Bandcamp.
I tend to agree with you about the quality of recordings. Nowadays a lot of recordings are done in the digital domain, its easier, it more manageable, you can fiddle with it to the cows come home, damn, you can even tune someone's bad singing! A friend of mine has an epic home Hifi system and he likes to buy vinyl from car boots etc, and some of the older albums he has come up with absolutely blow your mind with the quality of the recordings. In the last few years, I have been rather pi**ed off with some of the newer albums of reputable artists because they have been recorded on a laptop, or some such similar device and they are so dead and lacking in emotion or even quality that it is embarrassing. One in question is a rock opera style band and they are using limiters rather than bother to do a proper sound check, the distortion that is supposed to be there due to the guitars, is present but everything else is also distorted by compression, IMHO!!! And we all pay good money to listen to this garbage, sorry, you got me off on one, I do apologise! Have you seen the Les-Paul story, that was quite an eye opener, that man seems to have been responsible for so much that helped recordings and the first electric guitar, most interesting. I know I am old but still how is it that vinyl still beats all comers when it comes to quality of sound?Point taken, but I continue to stand by what I said - the majority of recordings (yes, by far the majority) made since 1957 have been disgracefully poor, from a sound quality POV. There's no excusing that, especially if you allow 10 years for them to grow accustomed to amplified instruments, so let's say 1970 onwards. Most 1970s/1980s/1990s/2000s recordings have been lacklustre in the extreme, compared to those 1950s recordings I mentioned (even though those 1950s recordings are themselves far from perfect). There are always notable exceptions, in each decade, but the point is that, with what was clearly shown to be possible, at the tail end of the 1950s, recording engineers, in general, have sold their listeners short in the more than half a century since then.
YMMV