Oasis’ first four albums have horrible mixing and mastering. Poster children for the Loudness Wars that infected studios in the 90s.
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Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation is fantastic on anything. I used to listen to this on my TV as a college student.
This is produced so well, what a forgotten gem:
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More music to enjoy and discover? Yes please!
Thanks for these, brother. Will have a listen after work today for sure!
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That Sonic Youth Album is the jam on vinyl. I picked a limited release of it over a decade ago on Record Store Day.
Awesome rec on HIM. I went through a huge HIM phase in ‘05 when Dark Light dropped. I was into a lot of that style of music and Post Hardcore around that time.
My two favorite HIM tracks will always be:
@domq422 Not commenting on the quality but here is some other songs from that timeframe that were bangers. Meteor is my go to set for these songs
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Ahhhh, I am going in completely blind and I love it! I have no idea what kind of music this is, I’m looking forward to pressing play!
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Join Me in Death kind of gives me a clue as to what type of music this is, come to think of it 
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Join me in death in a great song.
I went through a phase too lol.
I’ve grown out of it though but “Uneasy listening” albums are still very much good to this day imo because it’s less metal and more chill/acoustic stuff that has aged better.
Lol. It’s so emo it’s good.
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I’ll be honest, I was never a fan of any kind of hard rock, metal/emo stuff from the early 2000s HOWEVER, my wife was and still is.
Her and I went to an event called Emo night in Boston a few months back and even tho the music wasn’t my thing, we had a good time.
I try my best to get into it, but it’s just tough for me haha
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HIM’s lyrics are so over the top…but it’s well written
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Agreed. I just really like the overall vibe. His voice goes so well with the style of music.
@domq422 I remember you talking about that when you went. I’m not into following the newer artist these days but if your wife has any recs drop them here and tag me. Getting a little burned out lately trying to find new reggae and country. Could use a good change up of modern stuff like these that makes me reminisce of my late teens and early twenties.
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Alright boys so I listened to a little bit of HIM’s discography, starting with the songs y’all rec’d and I can safely safe I’m not the biggest fan HOWEVER the music is produced and mixed really well, there’s no denying that!
Now, the stuff from Story Of The Year is actually pretty damn good, I have to admit.
I love how thick it’s produced, very warm sounding with powerful drums/percussion and I dig the vocals and lyrics in this songs, thanks so much for the rec!
I’m currently jamming to Take Me Back, it’s a good tune. I asked the wife if she’s ever heard of them and she said nah and didn’t want to hear the music lol oh well.
The bands she’s been into when she was younger are like A Day To Remember, Fall Out Boy, Pierce The Veil, Escape The Fate, Chiodos, Bring Me The Horizon and of course… Paramore but even I love Paramore, they’re fucking fantastic lol
Ps. The difference in quality between the files on Spotify and Apple Music is shocking lol when the hell will Spotify finally release their lossless option? They’re missing out on a huge market share… random thought over
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Awesome taste. Of those I’ve seen A Day To Remember, Fall Out Boy, Escape The Fate and Bring Me The Horizon all in concert. There were two concert venues in Oklahoma when I lived there 06-13 that would get all kinds of shows like this. Also saw Hawthorne Heights, Underoath, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Yellowcard, Reel Big Fish, Rise Against, 3 Doors Down and I few others I’d have dig up to remember.
Man I’d love to be in a location again that has a small music venue. Miami just doesn’t have a good concert scene. It’s just all the big shows. I’d kill right now to get in a circle pit and slam dance. Thanks for bringing me down memory lane.
Here’s a few more for you to explore
Also yes I too wish Spotify and hurry up with bringing lossless to the platform. I just can’t leave it because it knows me to damn well with its algorithm.
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the only thing they get going for them rn is how fast new songs are available on Spotify and maybe bigger catalogues than everyone else, but others are rapidly catching up. But we know damn well its not coming in 2025
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@MMag05 I spent a good chunk of the downtime I was granted last night listening to some of the stuff you and @Cameleon30 rec’d to me and I can safely say that I’m a fan of a lot of it, not all, but a good amount!
I still have tons to catch up on and discover in terms of music, so I’m looking forward to getting more listening time tomorrow night BUT… Game 1 of the World Series is one so music may have to wait 
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Will test any set and chill ya out 
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Probably never. And I’ll counter by saying Spotify isn’t missing a big market share by eschewing lossless files.
We need to remind ourselves every once in a while that, with apologies to Thom Yorke of Radiohead, we are the creeps, we are the weirdos. We’re the 1 percent of the people on this planet who scour audiophile forums, who argue over driver technology and squiggly lines on a graph.
Nearly all of the rest of the world is not like us.
The rest of the world is perfectly content listening to consumer-oriented headphones with bloated, V-shaped signatures and compressed sound from YouTube videos. How many Spotify subscribers even know there’s an option to increase sound quality to 320 kbps, which still isn’t as good as CD quality or higher? Very few.
Spotify is slow-rolling – probably dropping, to be more accurate – its plans to introduce high-res files because its surveys show that most of its user base doesn’t know what it is, doesn’t want it and doesn’t want to pay extra for it.
Remember, Spotify announced its plans for high-res files as a total knee jerk to Apple’s shock announcement three years ago that it had converted its entire streaming library to CD quality. Spotify thought it was caught with its pants down and rushed out “plans” to upgrade its library.
But then Spotify learned only freaks want high-res streaming. People like us, not the mainstream that it serves more than any other streaming service. 
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Amazon Prime Music does not know me by algorithm
…but I can’t leave it because I get it free thanks to my parents in law paying for a family license. So I’m definitely still grateful for it.
Some basic algorithm pains though:
- I find a couple songs to play for my kids, maybe from the Nutcracker (they love to dance around to it) or something more banal like a Barbie song (ngl this is a jam) then it “stains” my algorithm for a week or two. Same for if I look up some dance music to play during a workout, I never normally would listen to it for fun but it can’t tell that sometimes people listen to exceptions / specific things and don’t want to throw that into their daily mix.
- When it does recommend something and I like it, that will be the only track it will keep pushing from that artist. Not ‘hm, you listened to all of that, do you want to hear other work by them?’ just 'You like THAT Metallica song? We will give you only that exact Metallica song every so often. Nothing else from the same album or artist. I have to remember to track down more of an artist I did like later on, but the algorithm’s meant to save me doing that.
- Playing something from “the greats”. If I express an interest in a Queen song, it will recommend all the famous hits by Bowie, Zeppelin, etc abut again only the “that one track I know from that famous band” recs. They ignore other characteristics of the song and assume I’m looking for anthems.
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I think it may be because most of the modern listeners probably only care about singles or “that song that goes duh-duh-duh, you know the one, ah I can never remember the name” instead of those of us that want albums/libraries to explore. Which is weird to me, because something like Youtube will always go “hey, you watched a video about THIS subject matter; these guys seem to have videos semi-related, go check them out” and then if I don’t, maybe I’ll get “well, here’s another one from that person you watched once or twice a week or month ago, maybe you’ll like this one?” and if I don’t watch THAT, then I won’t have a rec from them for a minute until I run through my subs and then they may suggest something months down the line. Maybe people prefer to binge watch but would rather curate their listening? I dunno, I’m old and I just use Qobuz to rip things I discover or want to try from other people’s/places’ suggestions. I also almost always listen to entire albums or discogs, although I may skip tracks or jump around here and there.
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Well said, Paul, you do have a very valid point with that 
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Here are some albums I’ve been genuinely loving lately, the production on all of these records is right up my alley in terms of my preferences and I hope some of you guys can find some enjoyment too
I hope everyone is having a great day 
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