Banter TRTT Part 13: 2021 Goodbye (To 2022)

[edgie]

Lol.
Indiana is the name we went with for our newborn girl.
...

Oh **** off, really?

 

[edgie]

Use to be the first album was raw but new, clearly defined in style, then following albums are overproduced, more homogeneous

Now with kids growing up with producing stuff on their laptops everything is overproduced from the start, even the stuff that’s trying to capture that faux rawness.

Imo.

Faux rawness is a great description. That's how I'd describe stuff like Wolfmother or Greta Van Fleet. Faux rawness imitations of limited 70s recording technology.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

28 seconds of mayhem

 

[edgie]

28 seconds of mayhem

So this is what happened to those two old farts from Neighbours!

 

[JimmyBC]

Faux rawness is a great description. That's how I'd describe stuff like Wolfmother or Greta Van Fleet. Faux rawness imitations of limited 70s recording technology.

Limited technology aside you had some great producers & engineers back then plus analogue tech is pleasant to the ear.

It's amazing how great some recordings from the 60's & 70's sound tbh it's a bit like old films with hands on special effects, makes people inventive & more appealing to the senses than digital harshness... & CGI.

 

[chiwigi]

You ****ers talking about musical subtleties in heavy metal are like people who wax lyrical about the angus burgers at McDonalds!

 

[backtozero]

Limited technology aside you had some great producers & engineers back then plus analogue tech is pleasant to the ear.

It's amazing how great some recordings from the 60's & 70's sound tbh it's a bit like old films with hands on special effects, makes people inventive & more appealing to the senses than digital harshness... & CGI.

How much of it had to do with the gear they were using? We can go on about analog recording techniques all day but I reckon tube amps and passive pickups gave players a more unique sound. You couldn't just dial in a tone and go for it, players had to make a sound their own.

You're right about engineers. I reckon a lot of that had to do with recording budgets. Everyone shits on the record labels but the reality is they'd give a band 100s of thousands to go record an album and spend a long time in the studio and the end result usually showed that. Those days are long gone.

 

[backtozero]

You *ers talking about musical subtleties in heavy metal are like people who wax lyrical about the angus burgers at McDonalds!

Metal would be one of the most diverse genres there is.

 

[Doctor Feel]

For contrast:

 

[DaTBird187]

Never has "You get what you deserve" been more apt.

 

[edgie]

Strange hearing 'no hooks' used as a description and criticism of metal, hooks are by design, pleasing to the ear, with nice melodies. Not exactly something a lot of metal bands aspire to. They have to be BROOTOOL

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Strange hearing 'no hooks' used as a description and criticism of metal, hooks are by design, pleasing to the ear, with nice melodies. Not exactly something a lot of metal bands aspire to. They have to be BROOTOOL

Nah... Need a groove.

 

[JimmyBC]

Strange hearing 'no hooks' used as a description and criticism of metal, hooks are by design, pleasing to the ear, with nice melodies. Not exactly something a lot of metal bands aspire to. They have to be BROOTOOL

Bizarre take hooks can be anything from a recurring riff to a chorus to a vocal inflection, also stomping on a distortion pedal doesn't eliminate melody.

 

[backtozero]

Strange hearing 'no hooks' used as a description and criticism of metal, hooks are by design, pleasing to the ear, with nice melodies. Not exactly something a lot of metal bands aspire to. They have to be BROOTOOL

Brutality as a descriptor usually only applies to Death Metal, and there's plenty of that that's memorable or catchy.

 

[bomberclifford]

Having travelled around India a while back, that's probably the cleanest water they've ever drunk that didn't come in a bottle.

 

[sobrave]

Brutality as a descriptor usually only applies to Death Metal, and there's plenty of that that's memorable or catchy.

Aw what about brutal doom, goregrind, grindcore, pornogrind, deathgrind, deathcore, powerviolence, sludge.. etc

 

[sobrave]

What about blackened death depressive noise nintendocore violence??

 

[backtozero]

Aw what about brutal doom, goregrind, grindcore, pornogrind, deathgrind, deathcore, powerviolence, sludge.. etc

Pornogrind can be pretty catchy

 

[JimmyBC]

How much of it had to do with the gear they were using? We can go on about analog recording techniques all day but I reckon tube amps and passive pickups gave players a more unique sound. You couldn't just dial in a tone and go for it, players had to make a sound their own.

You're right about engineers. I reckon a lot of that had to do with recording budgets. Everyone shits on the record labels but the reality is they'd give a band 100s of thousands to go record an album and spend a long time in the studio and the end result usually showed that. Those days are long gone.

It's great that anyone can record these days though as opposed to the chosen few who could spend two months getting the right drum sound at Abbey Road or the Record Plant... getting the sound of those sort of studios is another matter of course.

 

[_VXV]

Was he the nazi their grandma brought to dinner?

Nah, Jim brought the nazi to dinner. This bloke

 

[_VXV]

So this is what happened to those two old farts from Neighbours!

I work in Retirement Living, that could be across any village any day.

 

[bomberclifford]

Nah, Jim brought the nazi to dinner. This bloke
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That show was such a hidden gem. My daughter is fond of saying "Hellooooww. Friendssss." in her best Jim voice.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[_VXV]

That show was such a hidden gem. My daughter is fond of saying "Hellooooww. Friendssss." in her best Jim voice.

It’s a real sleeper.

You could creep your daughter with a “you smell niiiiiice”

 

[philthy05]

That show was such a hidden gem. My daughter is fond of saying "Hellooooww. Friendssss." in her best Jim voice.

I’m shocked that it’s not more well known, and upon recommending it to friends they kinda go sure, then never watch it.

The actors that play the parents dons great job, sad the dad (forget his name) passed away.