Year of the Goob

[matthew]

this is so goddamned cool I could just burst...

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[Tripp]

Yeah, but NASA's too cheap to provide 3D glasses...

[captqitn]

Should we all get together and buy a box of em from these people?

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/rainbowsymphony/an3dglasreda.html

 

[TheSTLKid]

maybe it's the cough syrup, but i'm seeing the image in more than 3d without any glasses.

[Doctor Rock]

Yeah, that's hella very neat.  I'm anxiously awaiting NASA's return sample mission.  It's very possible that my Ph.D. project (hopefully starting this year) will involve the study of minerals from a certain Martian meteorite... I shit you not!  We'll see...

You may not speak, or yell at the screen

[Doctor Rock]

Will the French Indict Cheney?

[Sabamah]

Yeah, that's hell of very neat.  

mr. rosa, for future reference, the common term is "hella". you krazy kanadianz.

[Pogo!]

Sorry, I have to clarify something...
Hi-Fi = High Fidelity -- that is, in audio, the reproduction is true to the actual real sound

Lo-Fi = Low Fidelity -- that is, not true to the original sound, for what ever reason, dry vocals, poor mikes, poor analogue signal, tape saturation, whatever

I've noticed there is some dissent in trying to figure out what someone is talking about when they mention "Lo-Fi." There is definately a genre out there that claims this name, but I think it has little to do with the sound reproduction... its just a label, like "punk," or "alternative," or "grunge," or "indy," and in this formulation, I don't really think the word is rich; it can't mean a whole lot, except to those that use it this way.

When I mentioned those bands (above) as being "Lo-Fi" what I meant was that their records were produced is a way that the fidelity of the original sound source was not preserved exactly true, for what ever reason (they like it, or they didn't know any better, or couldn't afford any better). The work they've done has validated the record co.'s who picked up and distributed certain Seattle bands' records without re-recording them (early 90's). This means no more big money deals from record co.s, (unless you're Janet Jackson) and we can thank (not Mud Honey or Nirvana) Motley Crüe and Poison and other 80's glam bands who blew the money and had no marketable sounds to show for it. Jerks. (I imagine some small percentage of what we pay labels and distributors for music still goes to pay off the cocaine that went up their noses.)

So far off the subject, sorry.
Anyway, I wasn't saying Indoor Living was the best produced Superchunk record. Their best produced records, strictly speaking as far as fidelity is concerned, have to be "Come Pick Me Up" or "Here's to Shutting Up." Wow, these records are really well done, true to form to what a national act should be releasing.

Indoor Living is strange (forget the music, lyrics, briefly, focus on production) because its obvious their studio work is top notch (I don't hear any vocal pops, misplaced rim shots or scrapes, or tempo problems, etc.), but it sounds like, is very reminiscent of earlier records that as far as I know were recorded, very carefully, in Wurster's garage with an analogue answering machine by his cat, at least the sound quality lends itself to this legend. Don't get me wrong, I love the old one's, nothing beats the old one's, but the sound quality is low fidelity, no doubt about it. This says nothing about the songs on those records, just that there is distict shift in quality.

Before, I was just making the point that Superchunk wasn't the only one to go Hi-Fi, just that they tipped their hat to their previous recording idiom, and everyone else is posing like "oh, yeah, I'm a national artist now, there is no history." And now artists like myself can't really use the excuse anymore that "I can't get a deal because my recordings suck." Sucky recordings get picked up all the time by national labels... literally hundreds every year. But there is something else they are selling, (or shelving) and it has nothing to do with sound quality.

I think the underlying problem, I mean why I just go on and on and on, is that I would like to have a $50,000 producer do my stuff. I don't want to know if my stuff is any good or not by having lo-fi versions and a small tight fan base. I want my first release to be super hi-fi, so that even if the stuff is lame it still sounds like God, and any radio will play it for a summer. Art is a bitch if you can't even begin because... like knowing that you can't build the skyscraper, even if you have the plans, the materials, the labor, because the foundation was made out of playdough. I'm tired of the playdough. Won't somebody just comp me for the one record, and I swear I won't pretend like I don't know you when I get big!

[Doctor Rock]

Sorry, I have to clarify something...
Hi-Fi = High Fidelity -- that is, in audio, the reproduction is true to the actual real sound

Lo-Fi = Low Fidelity -- that is, not true to the original sound, for what ever reason, dry vocals, poor mikes, poor analogue signal, tape saturation, whatever

I've noticed there is some dissent in trying to figure out what someone is talking about when they mention "Lo-Fi." There is definately a genre out there that claims this name, but I think it has little to do with the sound reproduction... its just a label, like "punk," or "alternative," or "grunge," or "indy," and in this formulation, I don't really think the word is rich; it can't mean a whole lot, except to those that use it this way.

When I mentioned those bands (above) as being "Lo-Fi" what I meant was that their records were produced is a way that the fidelity of the original sound source was not preserved exactly true, for what ever reason (they like it, or they didn't know any better, or couldn't afford any better). The work they've done has validated the record co.'s who picked up and distributed certain Seattle bands' records without re-recording them (early 90's). This means no more big money deals from record co.s, (unless you're Janet Jackson) and we can thank (not Mud Honey or Nirvana) Motley Crüe and Poison and other 80's glam bands who blew the money and had no marketable sounds to show for it. Jerks. (I imagine some small percentage of what we pay labels and distributors for music still goes to pay off the cocaine that went up their noses.)

So far off the subject, sorry.
Anyway, I wasn't saying Indoor Living was the best produced Superchunk record. Their best produced records, strictly speaking as far as fidelity is concerned, have to be "Come Pick Me Up" or "Here's to Shutting Up." Wow, these records are really well done, true to form to what a national act should be releasing.

Indoor Living is strange (forget the music, lyrics, briefly, focus on production) because its obvious their studio work is top notch (I don't hear any vocal pops, misplaced rim shots or scrapes, or tempo problems, etc.), but it sounds like, is very reminiscent of earlier records that as far as I know were recorded, very carefully, in Wurster's garage with an analogue answering machine by his cat, at least the sound quality lends itself to this legend. Don't get me wrong, I love the old one's, nothing beats the old one's, but the sound quality is low fidelity, no doubt about it. This says nothing about the songs on those records, just that there is distict shift in quality.

Before, I was just making the point that Superchunk wasn't the only one to go Hi-Fi, just that they tipped their hat to their previous recording idiom, and everyone else is posing like "oh, yeah, I'm a national artist now, there is no history." And now artists like myself can't really use the excuse anymore that "I can't get a deal because my recordings suck." Sucky recordings get picked up all the time by national labels... literally hundreds every year. But there is something else they are selling, (or shelving) and it has nothing to do with sound quality.

I think the underlying problem, I mean why I just go on and on and on, is that I would like to have a $50,000 producer do my stuff. I don't want to know if my stuff is any good or not by having lo-fi versions and a small tight fan base. I want my first release to be super hi-fi, so that even if the stuff is lame it still sounds like God, and any radio will play it for a summer. Art is a bitch if you can't even begin because... like knowing that you can't build the skyscraper, even if you have the plans, the materials, the labor, because the foundation was made out of playdough. I'm tired of the playdough. Won't somebody just comp me for the one record, and I swear I won't pretend like I don't know you when I get big!

[Doctor Rock]

There you go, I just used my administrator super powers to make that post legible!

[Pogo!]

I liked it better the original way. wadddap rosa?

[matthew]

New images from the Spirit Rover

[matthew]

I wasn't being facetious when I said that 2004 is the year of the goob, it really is. There is so much space junk (sorry) going on this year I'm thinking of going into astrology (sic)...but then I think I'd be happier as a biologist or...what do English majors do?

[Doctor Rock]

I liked it better the original way. wadddap Mr.Rosa?

You want me to change it back?  It's just that reading the original was giving me a headache.