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by Trophy Moose_Archive
Agree about “Riot” by Sly Stone … wasn’t Bobby Womack involved in that? Love the squelchy, rubber-band base sound, the frosty drums. Each instrument has got some unique little quirk, but that doesn’t isolate it, detract from the whole. Great, great record. I’m not a Beatles fan but I always thought their records sounded good, confident and direct. I think Steve’s recording of the Dirty 3’s “Ocean Songs” is gorgeous. It’s really dirty and muffled a lot of the time, but it has a magical quality it might not have if the instruments were cleaner and more separated. Really lo-fi stuff works sometimes too. There’s that version of “New Puritan” recorded in Mark E Smith’s living room, or “Spector V Rector,” a couple of my favourite early Fall tracks. I think they captured something on those that they didn’t on the more studio sounding recordings. A bit like someone’s personality often coming over better from a snapshot than from a posed photo. A lot of early rockabilly and 60’s/70’s reggae sounds great as well.
