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In Reply to: Someone help me. I really don't understand the appeal of this recording. posted by Dalton on March 16, 2007 at 11:37:56:
and in fact, by some, against rock in general.Average musicianship, banal lyrics. The musicianship is perfectly appropriate to the style of music. Banal lyrics? Well, perhaps compared to the Duino Elegies, but there are certainly many (or most)rock lyrics that are more banal than those here.
Banality of lyrics- I've seen clips where Steve Allen mockingly read the lyrics of rock and roll songs of the 50s to show how vapid they were. But that missed the whole point really.
There are some nice melodies here. That's what probably draws people more than anything else. I find the recording to be very clean.
Now this has been overplayed to death and I can really not listen to it anymore. But I think it's pretty good.
Follow Ups:
Stereotyping of groups of people (Us and Time)The nature of insanity and how it might tie into a phases of the moon.
Mankind’s big hurry to go nowhere. (On the Run)
And the very nature of time itself. (Time)
Every single song is great poetry in which years can be spent debating the concepts these poems bring forth.
Banal, no way!
I've always been an "Animals" fan myself!
This, and many other "classic" rock or other genre music were, if felt, hurridly mastered for the SACD format.... look at the difference in sound qualit between this and the same 30th anniversary vinyl?
That is what I don't get, and I think that is one of the main reasons that SACD has had a tough time.
Uh, are you and I listening to the same SACD? I often wonder the same thing about MB's Days Of Future Passed, based on comments I read. Maybe y'all are simply listening for/to different things than I am?I have used both of these SACDs (in two-channel mode) as a combined stereo/remastered source demo, and every time folks have come away quite impressed by the end result. In fact, after hearing this 30th anniversary SACD, I feel no need to go out and buy any other copies of DSotM.
I don't believe, from what I have read, that you can level that criticism at this SACD.
Regards,
Geoff
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