I was listening to Binaural on my headphones at the gym today...
walkunafraid
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...and I finally got the whole binaural thing.
Fucking awesome.
Why haven't all their recent albums been recorded this way?!
Fucking awesome.
Why haven't all their recent albums been recorded this way?!
Everything has chains...Absolutely nothing's changed. - PJ
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus
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embarrassingly i dont know what you're on about...
please expand...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording
if you can put yourself in a quiet room...close your eyes and listen to NAIS, you'll freak. Ed sounds like he's right behind your head. Stone in one ear, up close and Mike about 15 or 20 feet away on the other side.
really freaky!!
I know NAIS, Of the Girl, and Slieght of Hand do for Sure. Breakerfall does too. what about the rest?
I like the style, but agree that it may not have been the commercially-successful way to get those songs out there. In a live setting, that record is phenomenal. It just seems that the binaural technique may have hurt some of the viability of those songs.
Kinda like REM's Around the Sun. Those are good songs, but they have expressed that maybe they over-analyzed the production aspect. Thus, a record that never quite lived up to the potential of the songwriting.
That said, I LOVE Binaural as it is. It challenges my ears--in a good way.
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New Orleans 1995
Fort Lauderdale 1996
Atlanta & Birmingham 1998
New Orleans 2000
Tampa 2003
Kissimmee 2004
New York City (x 2) 2008
East Troy (x 2) 2011
Chicago & New Orleans 2013
Hampton, Raleigh, Boston 2016
Baltimore 2020
Louisville 2022
Philadelphia & Baltimore 2024
If I am listening to this through an Ipod, does it make a (sound quality) difference that the tracks have been converted to MP3 or any other format?
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