| Author | Message | ||
     Peter |
Its always the same for me - an anticipated album comes out and I listen to it far too much miss the subtleties (or maybe I just have cloth for ears) - just listened to BYBO and in 'Mrs Morgan', Glenn's drum solo sounds like rain falling in response to Grant's chorus..any other 'doh - never copped that' moments for the rest of you ? | ||
| Padraig Collins |
I often find that the first time you listen to something on headphones, either of the walkman type or 'proper' headphones plugged into an amp (we all have amps on this MB, right?), that you invariably hear subtleties that you missed previously, no matter how often you played it. I can't think of any Go-Betweens moments of audio clarity right now, but my favourite example is a song (can't remember which one right now) off Prefab Sprout's From Langley Park To Memmphis album which has didgeredoo on it! I first discovered this while listening to it on a walkman while taking a walk beside the Maigue river in my home village of Adare in south west Ireland. I was astounded! How the hell, in all the times I'd previously played that album, could I not have heard the didgeredoo? It's such a unique and distinctive sound, yet I missed it until I heard it through headphones. Also, I find that when you hear something on a remastered CD that you had previously only known on vinyl or tape, you regularly hear things you'd never noticed before. | ||
| Pete Azzopardi |
Actually, I first owned the '96 remastered version of Liberty Belle and then picked up a vinyl copy noticing, to my astonishment, what seemed like added guitar parts to 'Bow Down' on the original LP. Perhaps they are slighty different mixes though I don't see how. |