Quote Originally Posted by BarryL
Been listening to, finally, Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Not a bad album. But how these Lips not hear the god-awful compression distortion that I hear when I listen to this album. It's particularly bad on tracks 2 and 5. The Soft Bullet was the same. They must do it on purpose. It sounds like crap, and ruins what could have been a much better listen.
YESSSS! Thanks for pointing this out. I've always felt that this fact has been ignored when I read comments about this band and album. It IS done for stylistic purposes (Ohhhhh, how gritty and edgy!) and while maybe it sounds ok on your cheesy computer spks or a boom box, at volume on a good system, it sounds like crap, like a mistake.