{"id":4145,"date":"2010-11-15T06:15:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T10:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2010-11-15T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T14:41:23","slug":"ruined-by-dated-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ruined-by-dated-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruined by Dated Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4146\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4146\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4146 \" title=\"big audio dynamite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/big-audio-dynamite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/big-audio-dynamite.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/big-audio-dynamite-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B.A.D. production?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you hate it when there is a really good song that you used to love, but listening to it now you realize that the production sounds horribly dated? Maybe it&#8217;s because the production screams, &#8220;Hey, this new synthesizer just came out, here is factory patch #11 as the song intro!&#8221; Or, &#8220;Check out the massive reverse gated snare sound!&#8221; Or, &#8220;Listen to my new guitar effects processor!&#8221; Now, this is not the same thing as a recording that is simply of its time, or from an artist with a unique sound. Whether or not you like the <strong>B-52s<\/strong>, the sound is their own, and not really dated. And a crappy song isn&#8217;t really hurt by a dated production style. I&#8217;m talking about songs that would be great if they just toned down the production, but instead are mediocre or worse. And the opposite: a song so good it overcomes the dated or excessive production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you hate it when there is a really good song that you used to love, but listening to it now you realize that the production sounds horribly dated? Maybe it&#8217;s because the production screams, &#8220;Hey, this new synthesizer just came out, here is factory patch #11 as the song intro!&#8221; Or, &#8220;Check out the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ruined-by-dated-production\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1867,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}