[sdiy] Overcompression

[KA4HJH]

>> I wonder if his argument that none of today's music
>> will have any staying
>> power because of this will work out? I guess we'll
>> see.
>
>Sadly, it will have staying power. They will always
>remember the night with Brittney and will focus on
>THAT music forever. There is a maybe five year window
>for acquiring music... in the teen age years.  Most
>folks will never leave that window. See "Disco must
>die"...
>"Rap is Crap"... etc.  My mom likes Glenn Miller
>(well so do I :^)

I'm familiar with the phenomenon. I suspect Mr. Johnson is doing some
wishful thinking although I agree with his sentiment. I also suspect his
long-term sales analysis is statistically flawed in this respect but I'll
leave that to the experts--on some other list.

>Check out the 'oldies' stations. They target
>demographic (age) groups. The baby boomers were the
>biggest group ever, so Led Zepplin has more staying
>power. I even like it now, although I hated it when it
>first came out. Now its a 'classic'.

Unfortunately, "oldies" and "classic rock" station here have now sunk to
such a lowest-common-denominator marketing approach that even these
"markets" are now a shadow of their former selves. If nothing else
satellite radio will have a cadre of fed-up listeners eagerly forking over
the monthly fee.

This is all too depressing--let's get back to synths or something.

>The people on synth-diy are probably (and gratefully)
>immune to this phenomena.  I like music even if it is
>RAP or whatever. I was kidnapped as a young man and
>drugged, then forced to listen to the album cut of
>Donna Summer's "Love to love you, Baby".   It opened
>my mind - there was good stuff happening in the track,
>even if it was the hateful "disco" music that was
>driving rock acts from the charts.

I have quite an eclectic collection here--most of it not overcompressed.
I've always gone for music I like, period. It can sometimes be found in the
strangest places.

In reference to things mentioned so far I have Zepplin IV and the 12" of "I
Feel Love".

>Too bad so few people really 'like' music :^P

Really? I thought there was something wrong me.

-- 

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"Is entertainment killing our children or killing our children
entertainment?"--Marilyn Manson