![]() ![]() Yes, MP3's sound sucks, but worse, it filters out music's emotional meaning and erects a wall between artist and listener, which is why people in the MP3 world don't really listen to music as much as they consume it in a parasitic manner, while doing other "stuff" (cooking, cleaning, screwing, exercising). "You used to get it all/blocking out my anger/blocking out my thoughts." And that's the true crux of the problem. ![]() ![]() "When you hear my song now you only get 5%", he complains here, almost twenty years after his charge in that MTV News video, considered at the time to be outrageous. "We've lost the sound" Neil laments in the video-and that was before the scourge of MP3. Back in 1993 he appeared on an MTV News piece along with Peter Gabriel and me too. He was one of the first musicians to express serious reservations about digital recording and playback. Young's lifelong obsession with sound quality is well known and of course welcomed around here. "Don't want my MP3," Neil Young protests on side two's "Drifting Back (Part 2)". ![]()
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