I like a lot of lo fi music with poot audio quality, can add a brilliant rawness to the instrumentations, I'll give some examples, the sound of a guitar on a lo fi albumnis just fuzzy brilliance
When the guitar kicks in at 3:01 in this song
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bNSY8bDfhGs
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ooj6pEd6YM
I find some lo fi to be abrasive other times it hpgivesnit charm like with slanted and enchanted by pavement or early mountain goats, early mountain goats is a guynin his bedroom with a cheap recorder, I find that gives it charm and this real sense of personality
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7YRWzxYS_nM
But then a lot of music that uses intricate layering techniques wouldn't benefit from lo fi recordings
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Ydoe4Q-Gg
I wouldn't ever call a recording bad, because what's technically a bad recording can suit particular genres, in fact a lot of bands deliberately degrade the quality of their music like the antlers did for their album hospice
If you're after a good lo fi album check out in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel
Lo fi recordings can benefit vocals too, when I first heard in the aeroplane over the sea I laughed, I hated it, the guy couldn't sing, he could hit the notes but you could hear him straining his voice and I pictured him trying to sing it and just found it funny, actually at one point in two headed boy he's actually a little off key at a high note, but Jeff mangum's my favourite vocalist now, it grew on me, I can't explain it, it's like hearing him struggle to hit certain notes, struggling to convey what he hears in his head, I find a disarming sense of humanity in that, and personality which I get from no other album
Thanks for the insightful response. You were the only person who responded seriously to my post. That definitely shows good about you, but makes me sad for the rest of the site...
Anyway, back to the music!
The first example you listed was a good one. I definitely agree with you, the guitar has a particular grunginess too it that is quite good. I didn't mind that one at all.
The second example you listed was good too. The voice still came through very clear though. I could be wrong, but maybe that one just had a distortion pedal or something, the quality didn't sound that bad.
The mountain goats wasn't a bad listen. I feel like it wasn't bad partly due to the fact that it's only his voice and an acoustic guitar. If there were more instruments added... I don't know. Lol
You do make some convincing points though, maybe I'm just missing the intention. Out of the two examples I listed, the one by 'the white stripes' seems like it could have been done that way on purpose. The 'avenged sevenfold' album, to me, does not. It seems like it could have really benefited from a better recording. What do you think?
I have listened to the 'neutral milk hotel' album you recommended before. I couldn't really get into it very much, not really my taste. Maybe I will give it another go sometime though. I will have to check out your other examples later.
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I like a lot of lo fi music with poot audio quality, can add a brilliant rawness to the instrumentations, I'll give some examples, the sound of a guitar on a lo fi albumnis just fuzzy brilliance
When the guitar kicks in at 3:01 in this song
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bNSY8bDfhGs
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ooj6pEd6YM
I find some lo fi to be abrasive other times it hpgivesnit charm like with slanted and enchanted by pavement or early mountain goats, early mountain goats is a guynin his bedroom with a cheap recorder, I find that gives it charm and this real sense of personality
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7YRWzxYS_nM
But then a lot of music that uses intricate layering techniques wouldn't benefit from lo fi recordings
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Ydoe4Q-Gg
I wouldn't ever call a recording bad, because what's technically a bad recording can suit particular genres, in fact a lot of bands deliberately degrade the quality of their music like the antlers did for their album hospice
If you're after a good lo fi album check out in the aeroplane over the sea by neutral milk hotel
Lo fi recordings can benefit vocals too, when I first heard in the aeroplane over the sea I laughed, I hated it, the guy couldn't sing, he could hit the notes but you could hear him straining his voice and I pictured him trying to sing it and just found it funny, actually at one point in two headed boy he's actually a little off key at a high note, but Jeff mangum's my favourite vocalist now, it grew on me, I can't explain it, it's like hearing him struggle to hit certain notes, struggling to convey what he hears in his head, I find a disarming sense of humanity in that, and personality which I get from no other album
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In fact one of the songs I've been listening to most recently is extremely lo fi
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc1AiLdlVNA
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Also sometimes lonfi qualities helps express the emotions of the music on this case aggression, the lo fi aesthetic makes it feel grimy and urgent
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl3XWUhUOM
Sorry I'll stop now, start me off on lo fi music etc and I won't shut up
Thanks for the insightful response. You were the only person who responded seriously to my post. That definitely shows good about you, but makes me sad for the rest of the site...
Anyway, back to the music!
The first example you listed was a good one. I definitely agree with you, the guitar has a particular grunginess too it that is quite good. I didn't mind that one at all.
The second example you listed was good too. The voice still came through very clear though. I could be wrong, but maybe that one just had a distortion pedal or something, the quality didn't sound that bad.
The mountain goats wasn't a bad listen. I feel like it wasn't bad partly due to the fact that it's only his voice and an acoustic guitar. If there were more instruments added... I don't know. Lol
You do make some convincing points though, maybe I'm just missing the intention. Out of the two examples I listed, the one by 'the white stripes' seems like it could have been done that way on purpose. The 'avenged sevenfold' album, to me, does not. It seems like it could have really benefited from a better recording. What do you think?
I have listened to the 'neutral milk hotel' album you recommended before. I couldn't really get into it very much, not really my taste. Maybe I will give it another go sometime though. I will have to check out your other examples later.