#Byrds discography torrent download
You download an ‘album’… and there’s a file folder showing on your screen that’s really not a file folder, it’s just a group of pixels representing a pathway to a cluster of digital information… How UN-rock n’ roll is that? We get ‘tags’ indicating a song title, an artist, an album title… but that’s all. It’s ironic that, in the ‘Information Age’, we get so little information with our music. What does an mp3 look like? Feel like in your hands? Smell like? You probably even know what an album cover smells like. Think about it: Most of us spent countless hours listening to records and staring at the packaging, reading every word, desperate to know whatever there was to know about what we were experiencing. All of this information directly effected our perception of the music we listened to enriched it, colored it, deepened it.
Musicians, songwriters, producers, locations, dates, even ‘thanks’ lists. And a significant portion of whatever backstory we were able to put together before the internet era came from all of the minutiea that accompanied physical media. Doesn’t the saga and setting of Deep Purple’s ‘Machine Head’ sessions inform the way the you perceive the record? Wouldn’t your listening experience differ significantly if you thought ‘Perfect Strangers’ was DP’s debut, and not a reunion album? The guitars sound different on ‘Come Taste the Band’… Is this Blackmore? If not, who is it? And where’s Ritchie? Music without a backstory is one-dimensional flat. A song, an album, or even an entire discography has always been but a part of a larger story. If this blog is ‘about’ anything, it’s about backstory. But is sound quality the only thing we’ve lost with the advent of the mp3?īackstory. “To have it squashed down is not how it was intended to be.” He lamented the sad fact that all of the painstaking work he had recently done on the Zeppelin remasters would be ruined by todays technology tech that is geared toward today’s listening culture. He told Kerrang! Radio: “They (the Led Zeppelin albums) were mixed in stereo with a depth-of-field to them, with everything in focus,” he says. Jimmy page recently complained about the sound quality of mp3s.
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