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Title: Digital Clipping Throughout, Unlistenable
Review: If Iggy Pop's idea of "restoring" a classic protopunk album is cranking it up 30dB in the digital domain, so that it clips beyond belief and completely trashes the audio, then he succeeded. Seriously, this album is ruined by digital distortion -- you could just as easily have "restored" the old CD yourself by running it through a cheap guitar distortion pedal. Actually, the result probably would have been better.The CD doesn't sound "modern," it doesn't sound "hot," it doesn't "rock." There are no dynamics at all on this version, everything is maximum volume and distorted all the time. So in the climax of the song, when Iggy screams, it's no louder than when the song started, leaving a person completely unmoved. By then most people have tuned out the song anyway, since the lack of dynamics causes a loss of interest. Stay away from this CD.
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