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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
No, murky IS bad. That's not MY definition, it is the definition. It has nothing to do with "personal taste", I'm all for noise or filth or muddiness or murk or whatever if the band wants that kind of sound -- however, it's obvious to me that this recording wasn't produced by the best hands, a fact probably even Sonic Youth themselves can attest to (the reissue does sound much better, by the way, and a few songs don't sound like crap -- "Dirty Boots" sounds amazing! But they really dropped the ball on the production of some of the songs; specifically "Mote" "My Friend Goo" and "Mary Christ")... I mean, it's like MBV's "Loveless"; man, for a band who puts so much emphasis on sound, it's sad that the drums sound so tinny... the drums deserve to be heard on that record; can we all agree on that? Then, you can see my point: if THIS album were better-produced, we could hear the instruments better, which would be swell! How can anyone listen to "Mary Christ" and think it's well-recorded? Give me a break. It's just common sense, it has nothing to do with personal taste... if you understand production at all, you'll know what I'm talking about. It's obvious! The point you're trying to make isn't about the facts -- since the fact is that it was poorly-recorded -- but about my opinion: My opinion is that the production never has nor ever will interfere with the songs (which are pretty good). But it's still a shame that the production isn't better.
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It sounds more like they WANTED it to sound murky, and I think it's a better album for it. It wouldn't sound right all clean and polished, it would actually sound SHITTY. About as shitty as you seem to think it sounds as is.
It sounds great, you can blame it on production or whatever the hell you want but do you not think Mary-Christ sounds perfect sounding like all the instruments just crawled out of a swamp? And the vocals all sound rad, almost blending in to the music, yet still standing out and clearly being vocals.
Same thing with Loveless, I don't think anything about either albums was a mistake of equalization or mixing or
whatever.
Clearly it IS personal whether or not people like that sound, as there is many differences of opinion in just this thread.
**Dead-Air, see rep.