It's Friday and NP Time

[Davey]

Been listening to The Wedding Present this Saturday morning. Seamonsters. I had used the song Suck on my latest comp (which I also listened to and posted the artwork for last night down at http://forums.audioreview.com/showth...7605#post17605) because that's probably my favorite on the CD, but after hearing the comp a bunch of times I really needed to listen to the whole CD (just a note to audio afficionados: I did have to compress the song quite a bit to get the volume up high enough to kinda-sorta match most of the others so the original will be somewhat better sounding than the version on the comp, although its not exactly of audiophile quality to begin with). Another of my many finds as a direct result of talking to people here. Nothing beats getting a recommendation from someone who has lived with an album for a few years and still loves it. This is definitely one of Steve Albini's best jobs (if not the best) as producer or engineer or whatever he calls himself. It's got this loud and powerful sound throughout, but full of subtelty as well. Building emotions that finally find release. That drum sound that drives suck is just so immense and powerful and sensual. Yeah, I guess I'm kinda in love with this album. Close to a 10 on Davey's completely unbiased and highly rational rating scale. One of those CDs that you can probably recommend to just about anybody who likes rock music, I think? Well, maybe not. Any other opinions on that? I haven't heard the recent remaster. Anyway, great album - terrible CD player. It's skipping some right now because it's a piece of Sony shit