Here's What I Think About Your Noise

Things have changed quite a bit in rock music in the last two decades. And although we're in the digital age of music, the quality of it is worse. Music is actually "too loud" and MP3s ruin the quality through compression. Because of that, we don't hear music the way the artists actually want us to hear it. CDs sound better, but nobody's buying them.

Here's a few examples:

This is a soundwave from Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit showing the dynamics of the verse and chorus.


And here's one from The Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor showing you what it's like to give you a headache by cranking everything up and keeping it there through the duration of the song.


"The Loudness War"



Maybe we should stop listening to all our stuff on MP3s and go back to CDs. Just a thought.