There’s deliberately making something sound bad/different, and there’s shooting for something in the realm of normal and ending up utterly off - the latter is maybe more interesting for this theme to me
True but it’s also more rare! I also think what @JRGComedy said about first albums is extremely on point. There’s a third option which is “band aiming for something in the realm of normal but they don’t have the budget for it yet.” Regardless I think this is gonna be a really interesting playlist and I’m excited to see how everybody approached the theme.
It’s funny because most of the time when a lot of people on this forum say that a rock song sounds bad I usually think it sounds good
I have so many mixtape songs and radio bootlegs that I can’t use for this on my computer, this round is pissing me off lol
Three records that came to mind that I didn't pick from: Manchester Orchestra - Cope Turnstile - Nonstop Feeling Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing
Yooooo this is fascinating. I agree on Gutter Phenomenon, especially when stacked against everything that came later in ETID’s catalog. But that Lonely the Brave song is killer, and I feel like the way the vocals sound like they are shouted from the back corner of a room actually serves the song well. Also has made for some interesting misunderstood lyrics lol. I might still have to give that some votes though, I truly love that song.
I knew Bleachers was going to be on here lol My pick was going to be I Can Feel You By MCS but I changed it at the last minute.
Crazy good playlist so far. Love these first five tracks and can't wait to listen to the rest later. Soberish was a really good pick - song could be so much better than it is with different production
Really impressed with the variety in this playlist! I do have beef with the Charly Bliss pick though. They ended up recording Guppy twice because they didn’t like how it originally sounded! You can really notice how hollow/garagey the original production was in the Ruby video:
Damn, I genuinely think that Balance and Compure record sounds really good lol I almost pulled something from American Pleasure Club's A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This or Crime in Stereo's I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone.
"Louie Louie" is a great pick. Echoing that the Lonely the Brave song rules, kind of sounds like a mix of Baroness and Have a Nice Life. Also really enjoyed the Ruston Kelly song. Love Liz Phair, hadn't heard that song before, some of the vocal effects going on are genuinely baffling lol
Also, I absolutely loved that guided by voices song. Quick, someone tell me which guided by voices album to listen to!
I forgot how good Charly Bliss was. And Incendiary. Lmao "Ruin" is my favorite Hovvdy song. I don't think that track sounds bad at all for an acoustic demo!
Wikipedia doesn't source the quote, but it says: "it was mastered and mixed to have a "more human" and "organic" sound."