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Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 6062 Location: Camden County
And isn't it weird how parts of the new Black Stone Cherry album sound like Goo Goo Dolls (especially track 2)? It's a conspiracy, I tell you. _________________
The new Black Stone Cherry album, it's really rather good
Is it really? Worth money? I was all set to buy it then my brother said it was just a balled laden misery and totally weak-ass compared to the first one. He was very upset. I quite like a balled myself but his disappointment has made me a bit hesitant about listening to it. The first album was so awesome, I'd hate to sulley BSC in my mind if this is super-pissy. _________________ Myspace in progress: www.myspace.com/dirtylittlehabitrock
Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 6062 Location: Camden County
It's not as good as their debut but I dare-say is a bit more varied.
There aren't as many ballsy rockers as on 'Black Stone Cherry', three ballads crop up and the production has swelled to encompass strings, piano and even a female backing on one track. As I said, there's more than a hint of Goo Goo Dolls in both the 'lighter' side of the songwriting and Chris Robertson's voice, which seems to have evolved into more of a croon. Having said that, he still has an awesome and suitably gritty rock vocal, but I think you'll notice the difference.
Worth a buy? Probably not, but definitely worth a download to see if you like it enough to do so. _________________
It's not as good as their debut but I dare-say is a bit more varied.
There aren't as many ballsy rockers as on 'Black Stone Cherry', three ballads crop up and the production has swelled to encompass strings, piano and even a female backing on one track. As I said, there's more than a hint of Goo Goo Dolls in both the 'lighter' side of the songwriting and Chris Robertson's voice, which seems to have evolved into more of a croon. Having said that, he still has an awesome and suitably gritty rock vocal, but I think you'll notice the difference.
Worth a buy? Probably not, but definitely worth a download to see if you like it enough to do so.
I would agree with that man, bought it on the day it came out and found all in all it's a bit cheesy. First albums FTW.
I've got about halfway through the new METALLICA record, 'Death Magnetic' and am extremely pleased to say it's better than St Anger by a country mile.
I was fearing the worst that Lars had kept that awful snare sound but no, it's gone.
Thank fuck for that.
I can see what people have sound about the album being clippy in places and it can get a little annoying but on the whole it's a really dirty sounding record and I think it suits the material actually.
They've brought back a bit of speed too, which is good in my book.
Joined: Apr 19, 2005 Posts: 5137 Location: At the bottom of the garden, amongst the birds and the bees
Nickolai wrote:
I can see what people have sound about the album being clippy in places and it can get a little annoying but on the whole it's a really dirty sounding record and I think it suits the material actually.
Like I said in the thread I started about it, the songs are okay for the most part; some of them are good, the first single is the weakest track, but overall it's not bad at all.
As for the sound though... it doesn't sound dirty, it sounds poorly mixed and mastered - there's an ocean difference. The 'dirt' doesn't come from the actual sound of the instruments, it comes from everything being over compressed and from the mastering being pushed too hard.
When there's palm-muting on the guitars, the low-end farts - that's an eq/compression issue. Lars hits so weakly now that the snare is limited to fuckery to bring some volume out of it, that's why it clips but still sounds soft. When solos kick in, it pumps (everything else gets quieter), which means the master bus is over compressed. It's maddenly dry too, like they recorded in a completely dead room - even a little bit of reverb on the drums would have been nice.
Personally, I think digital clipping is unforgivably amatuer, especially for an album that cost more to make than most bands spend in a career. It's an artifact from limiting the tracks too hard in an attempt to make them louder. Getting rid of it is a case of moving a slider/turning a knob by like 0.3 of a decibel and checking the track again - with a budget like Metallica have, it's ridiculous that it should get through the mastering process. It's one thing to have a couple of clips like Machinehead's last couple of CDs (though I'd argue that even that is too much), but on 'Death Magnetic' it's like it the whole way through - 'The Day That Never Comes' clips on virutally every snare hit. It fatigues your hearing, and makes it hard to listen to the whole album in one sitting.
Musically, I'm pleasantly surprised - it's not bad at all, and I'll definitely give it a good few listens - but the actual sound is awful.
Ooh, they kept Rob Trujilo too low in the mix as well - fuck, they should have let him play the leads, he's more inventive than Kirk Hammett these days.
EDIT: Just re-listened to 'Unforgiven III' (top marks for song names) - listen to the intro/verses, on the snare hits the hi-hat gets louder... not because it's played harder, but because the snare compression makes the bleed louder in the snare mic...
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I just found out that the game is actually called 'Mercenaries' not 'Missionaries' I'm such a tard today. On the BBC website theres this article that EA games are giving away £20,000 worth of petrol at a petrol station in London as promotion for the game. The song is so fucking catchy though.
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