Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!
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Nee Lewman
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I have Jazz, Soundtracks (sort of - if it is a release by an artist, it goes to the artist, but if it is a score or a various artists/cast deal, it goes in the separated section), Classical and Holiday music segregated. Everything else is too hard and is together. Jazz is pulled out to help keep my wife sane. She will often be like "it's not Jazz Sunday" otherwise, so best to have them not staring me in the face when I put something up or pull something out.
Nee Lewman
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Comps are at the end of the general section, unless it falls into a segregated section, then it is at the end of the appropriate section.
avecigrec
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This is the way.
Nee Lewman
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I don't understand how any one who has more than like 500 records finds anything if they aren't sorted by an alphabetical method, whether library or cogs.
Joe Mac
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Autobiographical! I dare you!
Dead C
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We don't
avecigrec
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Oh man.
Tempting.
September would be the absolute earliest I could even remotely consider trying such a thing.
(Also, my wife would probably kill me!!)
Nee Lewman
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I also find that segregating means I am less likely to listen to something. Sometimes when I go to pull a record I want to listen to out/put one away, I see two or three things that make me go, ooooh I wanna listen to that, so I do. Not to mention that if all the blue notes, impulses and Colemines were separate - I would probably not reach for other things, no matter of how cool the shelves looked. Plus impulse and Colemine would just naturally draw my eye, meaning BN would suffer too.
Nee Lewman
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It's hard enough for an artist. Sometimes, I have to pull out my phone and look at a disco to put stuff away!
folsom_lives
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Not sure if this fits here, but I was recently relistening to Muse's Absolution.
While I still feel like this is an truly seminal piece of early 2000 alt-rock, I can't help but comment on how utterly distracting Matt Bellamy's inhalation is.
Like the dude sounds like he has COPD every time he finishes a line and breathes in. It's so damn loud in the mix.
Dude could have taken a note from Tay Zonday.
While I still feel like this is an truly seminal piece of early 2000 alt-rock, I can't help but comment on how utterly distracting Matt Bellamy's inhalation is.
Like the dude sounds like he has COPD every time he finishes a line and breathes in. It's so damn loud in the mix.
Dude could have taken a note from Tay Zonday.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Never been a huge Muse fan but that was something that was so distracting that I asked my brother, who’s a professional musician; about it. He said, it had to have been a stylistic choice. He said it’s common to gasp for air while singing but singers pull away from the microphone so it’s not audible.
folsom_lives
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I also want to say that Thom Yorke has done this on tracks but I've never found myself being distracted by it.
Maybe it's just the timbre that Bellamy used. Like it's so strained sounding.
TenderLovingKiller®
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The song I really noticed it on was “Time Is Running Out” and based on the premise of the song it gasping for air probably makes sense but it’s basically the only thing I hear on the track when I hear it now.
Dtknuckles
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They can also use an affect called a noise gate to decrease the volume once it goes below a certain level. Think 80’s drum sounds. The reverb was “gated” the classic Phill Collins drum fill and Prince often gated his drums.
Dtknuckles
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Bjork also uses breath as an artistic/musical effect. Yo La Tengo also. Close micing gives a really intimate feel like they are whispering in your ear. Personally I’d rather have Bjork doing that than Ira from YLT.
folsom_lives
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Dtknuckles
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Of fuck I didn’t know that it was a Meredith Monk piece.
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