Title: Boomtown Rats succumb to the Loudness War
Review: When reviewing an album of *great music*, it's troubling to have to talk about something as apparently trivial as AUDIO QUALITY and SOUND DYNAMICS. Most record labels no longer care about it, so why should the fans? The sad fact is that most albums are now being remastered to sound good only on FM radio and ipods. If you dare to listen on headphones (as a previous reviewer discovered) you'll be shocked at how bad it sounds. Even if you ignore the audible crackling, your ears will be so physically fatigued by the looming white noise that you'll struggle to listen through to the beginning of "Mondays".If you know what I'm talking about, I advise you to return these botched "remastered" CDs for a refund. If you don't, just Google "loudness war" and educate yourself to this mess. The major labels are ruining great albums like this and yet they wonder why their industry is dying?
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