Re: (TV) The myth of Audiophilus

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

Thanks for reminding me of two other great examples of bad 
production: REM's _Automatic for the People_ and Tom's _Cover_.  In 
the first case, John Paul Jones smeared a massive schmaltzy string 
section all over the thing.  It might have been a great collection of 
songs if done right, but as it stands it's unlistenable for me. 
(Couldn't they have gotten Mick Harvey if they wanted to do strings 
right?  _The Good Son_ turned my head around about string sections.)

While I love the songs and Tom's playing on _Cover_, there's this 
awful sibilance on all his consonants that can drive me up a wall. 
It's present on _Words from the Front_, too, but it's really over the 
top on _Cover_.  And there's that drum machine, as well...

-Maurice

At 9:50 AM +0100 9/21/00, Sam Inglis wrote:
> matter. Bad production as far as I'm concerned is where the production
> really gets in the way of enjoying the music, not in terms of sound
> quality but muddy mixing, wrong balances of instruments, too much or too
> little compression, too many overdubs, or whatever.

> To a certain extent I think this is true of some of
> Verlaine's albums too.

> Bascombe also
> manages to make Verlaine's voice sound great, whereas I must admit to
> finding it pretty grating on much of the other solo material.
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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