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H-Bomb of the loudness wars
Times New Viking - RIP Allegory
off their 'Rip It Off' album, painful at any volume
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04-01-2008, 11:52 AM
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What sort of music is it?
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04-01-2008, 11:56 AM
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they are compared to Guided by Voices. lo-fi indie rock, I actually read about them in a thread here, under best 2008 releases. I like loud and distortion, I've listened to Psychocandy & Raw Power many times, but I cannot get through Times New Viking. http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/sh...ghlight=viking
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They left a little headroom in it. I see some squiggles. There's still room for more scrunch.
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04-01-2008, 12:00 PM
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Oh, my word! I went to the Matador Records website just to check out what this was all about, and there was a link to listen to two (absolutely horrible sounding) tracks, and this little blurb:
<<hey kids, here are two tracks off our double A side single off our new record, ‘rip it off’. these were recorded at the state-of-the-art, multi-million dollar ’self-esteem studio’ recording facility in columbus, ohio. send us a post if you are interested in working there. very cheap rates and very fine chaps. we can put in a good word for you… because, as the big-wigs at the office tell us, cheaper recordings mean more money for drugs.>> Is that for real? --Matt |
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04-01-2008, 12:13 PM
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I once accidentally screwed up my Cool Edit Pro settings and recorded nothing but blaring white noise. The resulting waveform looked very much like the one posted above.
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04-01-2008, 12:18 PM
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Horrible.
I'm just waiting for someone to chime in that it has great clarity and detail, or that you don't know how something sounds by viewing a waveform. To them I say you couldn't pay me to listen to this kind of abomination. rick
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04-01-2008, 12:27 PM
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Come on, people! This disc has unbelievable clarity and detail - check it out! Use your ears, 'cause you can't tell how something sounds by viewing a waveform.
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04-01-2008, 12:35 PM
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04-01-2008, 12:35 PM
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I just "listened" to this on the Matador website.
How awful. Makes My Bloody Valentine sound like the Carpenters. Nothing but screeching distortion. I hope they're being sonically ironic, and that this represents a turning point in the loudness wars (much like El Alamein in WWII). |
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04-01-2008, 12:39 PM
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That is, by far, the worst looking waveform that I've seen posted here! Blech. My ears hurt just looking at it. No need to listen to this one, kids....
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04-01-2008, 12:46 PM
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I listened to one of their tunes at their myspace, and even at low volume, it was like nails on a chalkboard.
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04-01-2008, 12:50 PM
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I thought this was an April Fool's joke at first. I was going 'what waveforms.'
Then I saw the faintest of squiggles at the top and went o.m.g..... We seems to be raising quite a crop o' young'uns. Young, stupid, and stone cold deaf.
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04-01-2008, 12:51 PM
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Is this something Matador added to their website....today?
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