I don't know about 20 years but it sure feels that way...
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Bob Dylan: Technology Sucks
Reuters 12:30 PM Aug, 22, 2006
Bob Dylan says the quality of modern recordings is "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc.
"I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really," the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
Dylan, who released eight studio albums in the past two decades, returns with his first recording in five years, Modern Times, next Tuesday.
Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."
"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."
Dylan said he does his best to fight technology, but it's a losing battle.
"Even these songs probably sounded 10 times better in the studio when we recorded 'em. CDs are small. There's no stature to it."
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You do realize that technically Bob is correct at least in terms of sound quality digitial waves have breaks in them (think of the shockwave logo) where there are spaces between each piece of sound, where as old albums, lp's if you will don't have the breaks it's a continuous sound wave, thus giving it a better quality with literally more room for what Bob likes to call "definition"
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