Re: The Absolute Sound

[jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (Sofa Launch)]

In article <9003120822.AA06557@world.std.com> katefans@world.std.COM (Chris'n'Vickie of Kansas City) writes:
The Absolute Sound reviewer writes:
>At the end of one track there's just Bush
>laughing-attached to so much garbage you can hear the sea gulls circling.[4]

To which Chris hysterically responds:
>[4] Is he kidding? Does he think the gulls were accidental?

Are you kidding?  Or did you not get it?  Sea-gulls circle around over
trash.  He wasn't talking about the sound effects in "The Fog," you
silly, he was talking about the non-musical artifacts produced by
Kate's sound processing gear.

Well, anyway, you can't argue with his review, because it is laughable
in the extreme.  Imagine, ignoring "The Fog" and "Rocket's Tail"!  But
I'm not going to fault him in the sound-reproduction department.
Let's face it, it's definitely not going to win any sound-quality or
engineering awards.  The level of hiss some of the songs exhibit is
intrusive sometimes.  Particularly Rocket's Tail!  Man, you crank that
song (the way it NEEDS to be heard to be truly appreciated) and you can
hear some severe noise.

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