base talk Popular songs seem to be recorded in poor quality

[Fastlane]

 

I love this song, but it's like 64 kbps. 

 

[perfectillusion204]

A 13 year old song on YouTube with 4 million views is not popular, girl

[ifuseekme]

MANJOBI VOCALS !!!

[Leppie]

Definitely Hips Don't Lie.. especially her vocals

[charot]

Imagine Dragons - Demons

[Slamless]

As incredible and iconic as it is, Crazy in Love is literally clipping at times  

[Fastlane]

14 minutes ago, perfectillusion204 said:

A 13 year old song on YouTube with 4 million views is not popular, girl

 

Here's the video with 28M views and there are several reuploads with 5M views. 

[Talento]

Firework 

[Carter]

the whole artpop album 

[OnlyManInTheWorld]

I always felt like Brendon’s vocals in ME! were much louder than Taylor’s, especially towards the end of the song. Like you can barely hear her when they sing together.

[Atlantis]

I find Hips Don't Lie unlistenable. She sounds so loud, you can barely hear the instrumental

[Frogger17]

 

 

I don't know who mixed and mastered this, but everything about the chorus is off.

[Fastlane]

Just now, Frogger17 said:

 

 

I don't know who mixed and mastered this, but everything about the chorus is off.

Here you can hear the clicks of the drums in the verses very loud

[Popboi.]

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

[gatito]

52 minutes ago, Fastlane said:

 

I love this song, but it's like 64 kbps. 

 

this isn’t a popular song 

[The Next Day]

23 minutes ago, Popboi. said:

Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

The only right answer so far. I don't know how this song became so popular, it's unlistenable. And it baffles me how it happened since the other songs are clean as hell.

[Futile Odds]

 

The production on this song isn't poor overall, but the random beat skip here (for like a split second) has always bothered me. It sounds like such an obvious glitch to me.  It's on Spotify like this too. 

 

More generally, some tracks on Back to Black intentionally have that '60s distortion/clipping, which can become a little grating after a while (as much as I love that album).

Edited September 20, 2023 by Futile Odds

[Galaxy]

 

The mastering on this song is horrendous

[Alex]

 

the way you can audibly hear someone eating chips(?) at 0:35  

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

Hips Don’t Lie sounds off on AM to me when I play it

[Dolce Vita]

so many 2010-11 songs sound like they were recorded on potatoes 

Edited September 20, 2023 by Dolce Vita

[Virgos Groove]

1 hour ago, Slamless said:

As incredible and iconic as it is, Crazy in Love is literally clipping at times  

 

1 hour ago, Leppie said:

Definitely Hips Don't Lie.. especially her vocals

Came to mention these two.

 

HDL's drums are so flat and the vocals so overwhelming; and there's literally a gap at the beginning of CIL. B'Day, as amazing as it is, could also do with a remaster.

 

OT: I get that Kanye did it on purpose to combine with the album's maximalism, but MBDTF is headache-inducing at times. Agreed with the Back to Black mention above too.

Edited September 20, 2023 by Virgos Groove

[McNulty]

ANTi sounds terrible like the quilty was 128k 

[glitch]

36 minutes ago, Alex said:

 

the way you can audibly hear someone eating chips(?) at 0:35  

I need to relisten because I've never noticed this 

[bliaz]

37 minutes ago, Alex said:

 

the way you can audibly hear someone eating chips(?) at 0:35  

It reminded me of the supposed fart heard in Gaga's Perfect Illusion.