records that mess with volume

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i'm sure this isn't the only time anyone's done something like this, but it is the best example i can think of: lickgoldensky's 'beautiful sounds of lickgoldensky' is mastered very soft and tinny throughout, forcing you to turn up the volume and maybe up the low end a little. which is why it's so effective when, near the end of the sixth track, the volume slowly but steadily increases to "normal" levels. which is pretty cool.

can people think of other records that pull tricks like this? and not just songs that start soft and then *BAM*, there's tons of those (muslimgauze, pita, etc.)

― vonkolberg (vonkolberg), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim O'Rourke, Bad Timing and Eureka.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Xiu Xiu's great at destroying my ears like that with such dynamics.

― Ian Beverly (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fugazi Live Series

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr Bungle "Disco Volante"

― jjj, Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smiths - 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others' -

― wombatX (wombatX), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kiwipix.com/atlantagrape.mpeg

Not a record, but it does involve some interesting tricks with volume. Totally SFW, but still... beware...

― Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.concertshots.com/images/cs-SteveVai1-Atlanta71901.JPG

― tk, Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

'Psychocandy' plays tricks in that you have to turn it up really loud to make it sound anything other than tinny awful junk and then something else comes on iTunes and I jump out of my chair.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Jim O'Rourke's "Disengage" has a reeeeeally long fade on one disc.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Venetian Snares vs Speedranch - Making Orange Things

They must have sold their souls to get their album that much louder than anything else I own.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

dntel - "why i'm so unhappy"

― steeve mcqueen (steeve mcqueen), Thursday, 10 June 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's just me, but Steve Albini to thread. Sheesh. Ever tried to listen to a mixtape with "Rid of Me" on it? You don't even know that the song's started. Same with The Breeders on Pod, i.e. "Happiness is a Warm Gun".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

conceded. OTM.

― vonkolberg (vonkolberg), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

and i hate that all the big black CDs are mastered so fucking SOFT. get over it, steve, the philips corporation has (mostly) won. (unless i find a lot of cheap used Big Black vinyl).

― vonkolberg (vonkolberg), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Theo Parrish mixes to thread.

― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Black does sound kickass on vinyl.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of French late 90s technO/house.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

in the outro to the version of "help me rhonda" on the beach boys today! record has the volume fading in and out. i dont think its that effective though.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

'inaudible' stuff like bernard gunter.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

youre living all over me

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

first song on first f. champs record sounds like it's really rocking out for like 20 seconds, you set down, and then it really kicks in in a boss way.

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 11 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

PiL's Metal Box. Halfway through "Memories" the song suddenly switches from being a bit tinny to a much fuller sound, it really leaps out at you. (I think I read somewhere they spliced a couple of takes together to get the effect.)

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i could be wrong
it could be hate
far as i can see
clinging desperately

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

What off O'Rourke's Eureka messes with volume? Obv. the parade-marching-down-Main-Street on Bad Timing does.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

bedhead had a track that started terribly quiet and worked it's way up to a vivid roar (thanks to a large ass ride symbol)...

i liked that lickgoldensky record... but i found the studio volume overdrive to be a little tacky almost. trickery.

better when a band does that themselves like bedhead. however, mogwai would write whole records between the gulf of frustratingly quiet and tidal wave loud. volume is a fickle goddess. too many bands in the early to mid 90s loved to be quiet and melodic and then FUCK SHIT UP! it was grounds for immediate walk out at one point.
m.

― msp, Friday, 11 June 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

my CD of Starless and Bible Black by King Crimson has huge quiet/loud volume shifts...its kinda disorienting....actually alot like it is on Rid of Me...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 11 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(unless i find a lot of cheap used Big Black vinyl).

I think the Big Black records are still in print on vinyl. I see new sealed copies around quite a bit.

Just FYI.

― Judas Grease, Friday, 11 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The new Mclusky, recorded by Steve Albin, has some good examples.

― mei (mei), Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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