@coolboymew Led Zeppelin unironically rules. the bit at 3:25 of Heartbreaker is still one of the heaviest things ever recorded. for a few seconds, they achieved transcendence.
I love vinyl. The cracks and pops are great and add character to a lot of songs. Also it seems like a lot of older music was specifically mastered for vinyl and sounds deeper and richer than if you listened to it on Flac or some other lossless media file.
Also the FFXIV soundtracks are preformed by symphonies for the most part and are mastered in the same way as all those old albums. You can listen to the songs in game or lossless quality digital copies and they don't sound nearly as good as they do on vinyl.
@olmitch@Bead@coolboymew > And though Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam are obvious gay icons remember when the Tony the Tiger Twitter account was being sexually harassed by furries who kept posting really disgusting things because they are furries? that's the icon Tony the Tiger is now.
@olmitch@Bead@coolboymew >“America has this back-ass-wards Calvinist streak where calling for the expulsion and genocide of non-white races is just a difference of opinion,” twitter always degenerates into hysterical shitlibs trying to prove that they hate white people more than other shitlibs and will tell increasingly bigger lies to prove it to each other.
@noyoushutthefuckupdad There are records I would never want to listen to on vinyl (my go-to example is Radiohead’s OK Computer), but vinyl is still a great format, if only for the cover art.
That said, many artists use those cracks and pops in their own records to get an absolutely mesmerising sound, like Portishead, Massive Attack or The Avalanches.
Finally, CD remasters suck. Even with cracks and pops, people knew how to produce records that sounded awesome back then. That seems to be a lost art now.
@josemanuel@noyoushutthefuckupdad@Bead it's a gay music industry thing, not a format thing. We can basically all agree that music production took a dump in the last few decades and a lot of it is probably because they can sell artists and popularity rather than selling music. It's the same old US mentality that's rotting everything, the product they're selling is a lifestyle mostly, not the product