Some contend that it may lead to aggression. According to sound engineers, this is literally tiresome for the human ear. This compression means that all parts of the mix are jacked up, and the resulting music is almost constantly loud. This means that the average difference, the range, between the loudest and softest sounds has been greatly diminished.
Acid Tongue is from 2008.īut more importantly, the dynamic range on the average album has greatly decreased in parallel. Straight Outta Compton was released in 1988. As a result, music on CDs has gotten louder and louder over the past two decades. The driving force behind this phenomenon is a belief among record companies that the louder a song is, the better it will sell. The “loudness war” has been raging since the introduction of the compact disc in the 80s. I hadn’t touched the volume at all-how did the frolicsome Rilo Kiley singer so effortlessly out-thunder N.W.A.?
Acid Tongue, which I remembered being gentle, if occasionally teeth-baring, country rock, had just blasted into my ears, cutting effortlessly through the sounds of the bus. My head jerked back and my back sprung out of its slouched posture.
I frowningly watched my finger push the Ipod's center-button: Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue, then.WHAM! Before I had the chance to think more about it, my thumb had semi-autonomously moved to Jenny Lewis’ Acid Tongue, which I don’t particularly like. And scroll I did, idly looking for the next choice, during which I realized I hadn’t really been able to hear N.W.A.’s furious opening title track over the whirr of the bus engine and the intermittent whine of the brakes. At some point I semi-consciously decided to change the N.W.A., mostly out of a habitual tendency to aimlessly scroll through my iPod music library. I was riding the bus recently, half listening to N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton, half reading a newspaper.
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