The 'Record Sounds Great but the Music Sucks' Thread

[MylesBAstor]

IN the end I just play the music I like, on my system .. When the recording is really bad and some are .. I seem to filter things out and just let the music flow ... Some recording are atrocious and that is a bother and I have come to use the EQ from foobar on those. I would admit that some are so bad, I can't get myself to listen to, such as the last Eryka Badu .. it is soooo compressed !!! There is no breathing, no singing IN one song the bass level is as high as her own voice and with any system capable of sustained high output in the bass, you can't focus on the song at all the bass is ovewhelming .. How can she accept that? o have found myself quite pleased with some mp3, especially the variable rates one (VBR) on my headphones based system ... There! I just lost the remaining of my audiophiles creds
And to add to the chorus of recordings with good sound and poor music ... Casino Royale .. TO this day IMHO, IME, FWIW, YMMV a bad album of poor music , cheezy music, including the famous "Look of Love" and I did look for that record for such a long time and the recording never struck me as anything worthy of its reputation... There was also another album highly recommended by HP too, Music for Bang, Broom and Barroom I believe, was the name ... Yuck ... The Shieffed drums record was to me poor music but it helped me calibrate my cartridge/arm and TT so ... There was at time where in any Audio show you went there was song by an artist called I believe Basia ... I would simply leave the room the second they played it and did they play it? Everywhere you went, every show , seemingly every audiophile leaning dealer had it .. i even heard it at Tower in Greenwich Village once ... Not the album one song ... Never inquired what was the name of the song .. nor from what album .. Myles would be able to tell ..

It wasn't for lack of talent...they became/are two of the best drummers in the business.

As far as "Basia" goes, doesn't ring a bell.

Seeing the way the thread is going, perhaps another thread entitled "Most Overrated Recordings" would be better!

 

[JackD201]

The Basia album was probably Time and Tide and the song was probably Promises. I agree, way overplayed and the recording wasn't great either. I'm 100% sure you've heard her Myles. She was the vocalist of Matt Bianco. His biggest hit was Half a Minute. It got lots of radio play worldwide.

Okay. You guys are evil! I was thinking I always liked her contemporaries, Swing Out Sister and Lisa Stansfield more but there was another! I can't remember the darned name of that band! AAAAARGHHHHHHHH!!!!! From that era, Tracy Thorn was always my favorite.

 

[MylesBAstor]

The Basia album was probably Time and Tide and the song was probably Promises. I agree, way overplayed and the recording wasn't great either. I'm 100% sure you've heard her Myles. She was the vocalist of Matt Bianco. His biggest hit was Half a Minute. It got lots of radio play worldwide.

Okay. You guys are evil! I was thinking I always liked her contemporaries, Swing Out Sister and Lisa Stansfield more but there was another! I can't remember the darned name of that band! AAAAARGHHHHHHHH!!!!! From that era, Tracy Thorn was always my favorite.

Hmmm...can tell you never owned that album Maybe would remember if I heard the song but it still doesn't ring a bell. Maybe I'll look it up on itunes and listen to it!

Probably two of the most overplayed albums in their times at shows were Bela Fleck Flight of the Cosmic Hippo and the Sheffield Recording of Amanda McBroom. Haven't felt the need to play them in years!

 

[Bill Hart]

When the Village People's YMCA sounds good on your system, you know you are on the right track.

 

[NorthStar]

---The "Village People"? ...Who are they? ...Famous band? ...Like Basia?

Any great Classical sounding records, but with the music totally sucking?

 

[jadis]

Probably two of the most overplayed albums in their times at shows were Bela Fleck Flight of the Cosmic Hippo and the Sheffield Recording of Amanda McBroom. Haven't felt the need to play them in years!

When I was starting out in this hobby in the mid 80s, Amanda McBroom was the most popular female vocalist that nobody has ever heard. Heck, I'm on my 3rd or 4th copy now and through the years, I've grown to tweak my system using her as reference (The Rose), and there was this cut called Dusk, wherein we would count the triangle bells, if you can hear 16 'tings' of the bells, then your system resolution is just about all right. More bells, you've got 'great detailing'. I wonder how many bells would come out of Gary's vast array of tweeters in the Dragon. And the bells are always on the left speakers, good check of L/R channel identification.

 

[Bill Hart]

---The "Village People"? ...Who are they? ...Famous band? ...Like Basia?

Any great Classical sounding records, but with the music totally sucking?

Bob, your cultural cred took a huge drop if you don't know who the Village People are They were basically the 'gay' anthem band out of Greenwich Village that had some hits during the late disco wasteland era. They are cultural icons, in the sense that it is bad music, with a crazy 'schtick'. Look 'em up or see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_People
Kinda hard to explain, but very frivolous and at the same time, sort of a 'statement' in an outrageous way during the days when 'Gay Pride' was going strong in NYC. I actually meant it as a joke. I was trying to come up with a band at the bottom of the barrel, worse than Abba. Maybe I'm the only one who got it.

 

[NorthStar]

----YMCA, Basia, Abba; that's all junk to me, honestly. :b
_.._ I'm just surprised to see their names mentioned here, even as a sense of humor, that's all.
...Because they are truly that bad (Disco music from the seventies), whouahhhh!

It's not even 'music', it's a 'mode' of the times. ...A tasteless mode.
...I guess they are the losers of that generation ... :b
_.._ And we had to endure! ...But me I went into hiding, and was into Jazz.