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07 Feb 2015, 3:02 am

it sounds to my ears like today's pop music is trying to deliberately sound discordant in a variety of ways.

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07 Feb 2015, 3:04 am

auntblabby wrote:

it sounds to my ears like today's pop music is trying to deliberately sound discordant in a variety of ways.

That's actually from a ~20 year old Japanese noise album.

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07 Feb 2015, 3:08 am

I've noticed it for at least that long, that the way music is engineered nowadays makes for a relatively harsh sound.

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07 Feb 2015, 4:07 am

auntblabby wrote:

I've noticed it for at least that long, that the way music is engineered nowadays makes for a relatively harsh sound.

I know. The production values of most modern music are terrible, there's barely any dynamic range, and a lot of times things actually end up sounding "muffled" instead of loud and punchy. And this is coming from someone who routinely listens to weird industrial music. At least with noise or industrial music, they're SUPPOSED to sound somewhat harsh, but hearing modern pop songs on the radio just drives me nuts with how annoying and oversaturated they sound. In order to have highs, you need to have lows. Why can't producers nowadays understand this?

But anyway, in my prior post I was just pointing out that it was not a new song I embedded, nor is it by any means "pop". It's not everyone's taste, but I actually kinda like Merzbow, just because he does his own thing and doesn't give a flying f**k about what other people think sounds good.

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07 Feb 2015, 4:27 am

it is like people in general have lost the musical ear, in terms of artistic judgment relating to what the artists are telling their engineers to do with their sound, and the general public taking it lying down not thinking anything is amiss.

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07 Feb 2015, 6:56 am

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

I've noticed it for at least that long, that the way music is engineered nowadays makes for a relatively harsh sound.

I worked at the campus radio station while I was an undergraduate. From reading the trade magazines, I learned that the louder your programming sounds, the more listeners you attract. Unlike today, the FCC, aka Uncle Charlie, had strict technical limits, especially if the signal coming out of the studio over-modulates the transmitter. Broadcasting manufacturers solved that problem by building signal limiters, such as the Orban Optimod. The bad thing about this unit is that it clipped and compressed everything coming out of the studio, just so you could sound loud. I know of a few 1st class radio engineers that despised that unit, but was forced to install it in the broadcast chain of their stations by management, under pain of job termination. (Sound familiar? Look at IT, as it currently exists today!). If you think that pop music sounded bad with that kind of equipment, you should hear what it does to classical music, which has a wider dynamic range. Many are the times the station manager recorded my shift, for an air check, and many are the times the content of said air checks sounded like sh!t.

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07 Feb 2015, 7:00 am

Why does Wrong Planet always dump me into my profile page when I login, instead of to a message in a forum that I click on a link when I am notified of new messages? This happens if I use either my iPhone or iPad.

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07 Feb 2015, 12:15 pm

I swear to God, almost no one helps me with ANYTHING in this house (wedding planning, laundry, etc.)! It would be nice if I got some help once in a while.

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07 Feb 2015, 1:29 pm

I feel like

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07 Feb 2015, 6:17 pm

Awww, Aunty, I'm sorry you're feeling so badly. Are you hurting physically, or is it something else?

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07 Feb 2015, 6:32 pm

auntblabby wrote:

I feel like

Join the club, Blabby. Of course, having kidney stones doesn't help.

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07 Feb 2015, 10:06 pm

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Awww, Aunty, I'm sorry you're feeling so badly. Are you hurting physically, or is it something else?

humid weather aggravating arthritis, my right knee barely bears weight, have to walk like an old man with a cane. ach. also tired.

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07 Feb 2015, 10:08 pm

Meistersinger wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

I feel like

Join the club, Blabby. Of course, having kidney stones doesn't help.

gosh

that's awful

hope they flush out of your life ASAP. :bounce:

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08 Feb 2015, 8:34 am

auntblabby wrote:

Campin_Cat wrote:

Awww, Aunty, I'm sorry you're feeling so badly. Are you hurting physically, or is it something else?

humid weather aggravating arthritis, my right knee barely bears weight, have to walk like an old man with a cane. ach. also tired.

I'm sorry you're having to endure that----here's hoping you're feeling, better, REAL SOON!!

I'm sorry for YOUR troubles, as well, Meistersinger----I've heard that can be painful. I hope you're feeling better, real soon, as well.

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08 Feb 2015, 3:25 pm

^^^

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08 Feb 2015, 4:14 pm

Don't you just LOVE it when medications kick in at the wrong time? I nearly passed out in church FIVE TIMES this morning. My PCP put me on Farxiga, to control my diabetes, in addition to upping my dosage on both Levemir and Novolin-R. The urologist, put me on cipro and one other med, the name escapes me at the moment. I'm surprised I didn't wreck the car.

If you're wondering why I went to church, let's just say I'm the only tenor in the choir (again!)

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