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Title: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Shady on April 22, 2021, 09:33:09 PM Album just dropped.
It's not good. Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Shady on April 22, 2021, 09:35:44 PM David's guitar on Long Promised Road is really good and it's nice to hear Jeff again.
That's about it for me Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: ForHerCryingSoul on April 22, 2021, 10:20:47 PM Why is this album mastered so badly? Everything sounds distorted and fuzzy, it really distracts from actually listening to the thing...
Also it's fun to hear Ram Raj again, thanks Mike. Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Cabinessenceking on April 23, 2021, 12:51:51 AM Yikes the mastering is terrible. Unfortunately the record sounds quite sterile, much like most Beach Boys related releases since the 70s.
It's a mystery why all the songs are being performed by actual Beach Boys members rather than the fine talent I'm sure can be found withint the CM collective. Did I need to hear Al or Mike sing their old lines on this record? No. Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Pretty Funky on April 23, 2021, 01:31:16 AM I’ve got it on Spotify.
Re the sound. Keep in mind in all likelihood this was all recorded on devices, cell phones etc and mixed in house...literally ‘in house’. I wonder if a studio was used at all? Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Bedroom Tapes on April 23, 2021, 10:18:43 PM I really enjoy Golden State. Kinda has a 'long-lost 70's Brian song' vibe to it.
Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: as1972 on April 24, 2021, 03:36:46 AM I’ve got it on Spotify. Re the sound. Keep in mind in all likelihood this was all recorded on devices, cell phones etc and mixed in house...literally ‘in house’. I wonder if a studio was used at all? A lot of this was recorded years ago. That version of She Believes in Love Again, for example, comes from around 2007 at least. Ram Raj sounds like a different mix of the version on Unleash the Love in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSxbOAwWqQ Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: alanjames on April 26, 2021, 01:55:20 PM I’ve got it on Spotify. Re the sound. Keep in mind in all likelihood this was all recorded on devices, cell phones etc and mixed in house...literally ‘in house’. I wonder if a studio was used at all? I think Rob Bonfliglio mixed at least the new version of Add Some Music To Your Day and, as reported in the last ESQ issue, the album was mastered by Mark Linett. Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Awesoman on April 27, 2021, 06:49:31 AM I really enjoy Golden State. Kinda has a 'long-lost 70's Brian song' vibe to it. Yeah I'm digging this song too. You should check out Duncan Maitland if you like this song: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ksW90_xxq38Nqck_5ZgTFiVgqJRuhjbc0&feature=share Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Rocker on May 05, 2021, 07:03:03 AM Was this posted already?
A Fort Mill man brought The Beach Boys back together and it's all for a great cause https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsFBSqxb64 Title: Re: California Music: Add Some Music Post by: Matt Bielewicz on May 11, 2021, 12:52:42 PM I’ve got it on Spotify. Re the sound. Keep in mind in all likelihood this was all recorded on devices, cell phones etc and mixed in house...literally ‘in house’. I wonder if a studio was used at all? That surely can't be it, though, because Bruce's piano-led version of SBILA, which was recorded at some time before its 2007 release on a rare music sampler (and thus long before any lockdowns ever), sounded fine on that first release... and on this (I got the CD yesterday), it sounds as though Bruce's vocal has been put through a slightly distorting fuzz pedal. That 'effect' is completely absent on the 2007 release of the same track and performance. And yet it is there on many of the new CM tracks. It has to be the mastering. I've listened on Youtube, Spotify and the CD versions of this CM release and they're all the same (apart from the original SBILA track released back in 2007, which wholly lacks that fuzzy quality... and was of course mastered for release 14-odd years ago). |