Eggy wrote:
I think it also depends on what you were listening for in the music.
For example, if you listen to a band because you find the guitar playing
fantastic, yet discover that all of the guitar on the album is a paid studio
musician, you're going to feel gyped. Not because the music is worse, but
because what you expected -- that the artists on the record were the ones
playing the instruments -- turned out to be rather false.
Zach replies:
There is a vocal bit on one of the tracks on the relatively new DJ shadow
album. To paraphrase it, it says "It's not you that have betrayed your
ideals but your ideals that have betrayed you". I think this discussion
perfectly illustrates that point.
If you truely enjoyed the way something sounds and then you find that it
wasn't produced in the way you thought it was and you no longer enjoy it
then it is not reality that is screwing you, reality has allways been as it
is (completly indifferent to what you would like to belive), but it is your
belifs about the way things "should" be that are fucking you over.
Love based on quality of product not procedure.
Now, I can see one saying "oh my god it is amazing that that was done by
someone outside of a studio" or whatever the case may be. But this is a awe
of technique, which can be paired with, but shouldn't be confused with
product itself. I see nothing wrong with admiring either one indvidualy, or
both together.
zach
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