I'd also have to say that the production on the pink album is pretty good.
The drum sound is nice and crisp. The guitar sound leaves a bit to be
desired, as it also does on diary. Diary may sound tinny, but I think it
adds to the overall charm of the album.
I actually really liked the production on how it feels. What you call
distance is actually a breathy quality that I think really makes the album
stand out. I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but its almost as if
the album sounds alive. It's kind of hard to explain.
Oh, and for the record, I like "one", but what's with the 3/4 timing? Is the
whole album going to be in the same signature. "The ocean" was also in 3/4.
Cheers,
Steve Sidoli
http://kiss.to/frodo
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Scheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:44 PM
Subject: [sdre-l]: [sdre-l] On Napster, Timebomb, and production...
> 1. I second the request to put the new stuff on Napster. Please, if
> you've got "Rising Tide", share it. While you can, that is.
>
> 2. It seems like just yesterday people were complaining that Sub Pop
> didn't do anything for Sunny Day (and they didn't), and now some are
> bashing Time Bomb for doing what amounts to "too much." I definitely
> think the label's (over) enthusiasm is a bit weird, and it is a real
> pain to keep having to jump through all those hoops to get to the new
> stuff, but at least they're not holding it above our heads like Sub Pop
> did. I for one like Time Bomb so far, and hope they keep up the interest
> in marketing the band. (This is the first time I can remember
> "marketing" being used in the same sentence as "Sunny Day".)
>
> 3. The new songs (all two of them we've heard so far) have been bashed
> as "overproduced" by everyone's sister's second cousin-twice-removed's
> half-step-grandparent. But to these ears, the songs are a VAST
> improvement over the primitive dankness of "Diary" (like it or not,
> it's dated, and I have wished long and hard they'd re-record it in a
> real studio with some ambience), the positively poor production of the
> pink album (those drums sound like wet fish slapping on a slab of
> greased plastic as recorded by a Realistic kiddie mike), and "How It
> Feels' " almost skin-tight, cellophane-wrapped air (why is it that the
> more I turn up the volume on "Pillars", the more distant the music
> seems to be). Far from bitching about the production of the three
> records prior, I'm simply saying that from what I've heard so far, the
> band has finally made a friend of the studio, and have dressed their
> songs in a style and character that seems to fit their complexity. Let's
> give the thing a chance before crying "sellout" (imagine that!!), and
> wait until we can really get a feel for the thing as a whole.
>
> I for one am looking forward to this month's revelations, and hope
> nobody waiting to play spoil sport simply because it doesn't sound like
> "8" can let us savor the moment and inspect the good upon (complete)
> arrival.
>
>
>
