{"id":751,"date":"2006-08-24T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2006-08-29T19:37:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T19:37:27","slug":"dylan-hates-modern-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/dylan-hates-modern-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan hates modern music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, that&#8217;s a bit of a sensationalist headline and not technically true.  Wired News picked up a Reuters bit about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,71636-0.html?tw=rss.index\">Bob Dylan thinks that most modern recordings are crap<\/a>.  The quote is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You listen to these modern records, they&#8217;re atrocious, they have sound all over them,&#8221; (Dylan) added. &#8220;There&#8217;s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like &#8230; static.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know anybody who&#8217;s made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s one crusty old fart, but he probably does have a point.  Some points of reference in this debate, mostly about the CD mastering process and the misuse of compression and why they do it if it sounds bad:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/georgegraham.com\/compress.html\">Whatever Happened to Dynamic Range on Compact Discs?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdfreaks.com\/news\/10109\">Labels think &#8216;Louder Is Better&#8217;, but has it gone too far?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And exhaustive, but most interesting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindspring.com\/~mrichter\/dynamics\/dynamics.htm\">The Death of Dynamic Range<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul \/>I like that this is not about LPs versus CDs at all, in fact even these guys will stand behind a CD as long as it&#8217;s mastered properly.  I&#8217;m not an audio snob, far from it to be sure.  My main consumption of music is via MP3s (although ripped by myself at a high quality), which would probably gag any one of these guys.  Still, I think it&#8217;s interesting to note that even I can tell that old CD pressings (with large dynamic range, presumably) sound remarkably better than new ones, and I really think (with some exceptions of course) most modern music you hear on the radio today sounds the same and is uninteresting.  I kind of thought it was because I&#8217;m an old fart and like weird music, but it turns out that&#8217;s because most new music <strong>really does<\/strong> sound the same.  Huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, that&#8217;s a bit of a sensationalist headline and not technically true. Wired News picked up a Reuters bit about how Bob Dylan thinks that most modern recordings are crap. 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