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Originally Posted by AllHandsOnTheBigOne
Production, mastering, engineering, arrangements -- all inherently affect the "substance" of the album.
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Production, mastering, engineering, arrangements are all fluff.
Sometimes it is very satisfying to listen to very fluffy albums, but other times I want to listen to songs that are built on a good foundation.
It is always interesting to see what an artist can do with a studio album, and I love studio albums. It is really easy to get carried away in all the prettiness and dreaminess of a studio album. . . but to say they are miles beyond the simpler albums with the band just rocking out to me is just ridiculous. It is like two different styles of cuisine or two different flavors of ice cream. You know the analogy.
A "studio album" is like chocolate decadendence or some other incredibly over-indulgent ice-cream. Maybe chunky monkey.
But a simpler album with a band rocking out is cookie dough, or cookies and cream, or mint chocolate chip.
Sometimes I'm in the mood to be overindulgent, other times I want to go to old faithful. And by old faithful I mean rock and roll. And Isn't Anything is an album very firmly planted in Rock and Roll. They do the pretty stuff, but the songs still want to make you move.