Baroness - Yellow And Green (2012)

vinyl starts out clear. then they add carbon black to it. if you think the adding of carbon black makes the vinyl sound better then you should also look into drawing around just the edge of your cds with a green marker. you have to use a special green marker though I'm the only guy I know who has them. they start to lose potency after 5-10 cds. they are 20 dollars apiece how many would you like?

did you just say "don't take it from me, take it from me"

no no - I don't "cut" records I just make music. "Cutting records" means actually producing the master. John Golden, Andy VenDette, guys like that. Please tell them about how clear colored vinyl doesn't "sound as good" as opaque colored vinyl. Then get a tattoo of the look they give you because that look will be priceless.

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^ way to go

vinyl starts out clear. then they add carbon black to it. if you think the adding of carbon black makes the vinyl sound better then you should also look into drawing around just the edge of your cds with a green marker. you have to use a special green marker though I'm the only guy I know who has them. they start to lose potency after 5-10 cds. they are 20 dollars apiece how many would you like?

i was only stating what vinyl 'experts' say.

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objectively superior

I'm with contenderizer; using vinyl records to make useful household objects like ashtrays, or placemats, is definitely a better option than attempting to listen to music on them. Vinyl sucks. Hated it in the 80s, hate it now.

ha AG no I know I'm just being a dick as usual. vinyl expert-ism is a whole field of confirmation bias & subjective response, all of which is valid really - if I have a pressing that looks so awesome to me that I'm all amped for my listening experience then probably I'm in a really receptive headspace when I sit down to listen, whereas if I've been digesting received wisdom about which colors of vinyl are best I'm probably going to be focusing hard on the flaws. The quality of the mastering job is of infinitely more importance than the color of the vinyl, as is the plant where it got pressed, but only the hardest of the hardcore even talk about this stuff - and yet, many have opinions about whether the color of the dye added to the batch changes the sound on the vinyl, which was imprinted onto it by a plate.

mastering & cutting are probably the most important steps in the process imo and if you care about the sound of your vinyl that's what you oughta study, but unfortunately that means if yr favorite band goes to the most affordable pressing plant, no other choice they make about the pressing will improve the sound. if you're really hardcore audiophile you'd get records because you like the guys who worked on them, but who listens to music like that?

No offense to anyone who pays the rent by fobbing off this totally inferior format on suckers, of course. Friends forever, Scott!

if you're really hardcore audiophile you'd get records because you like the guys who worked on them, but who listens to music like that?

Plenty of people. Usually they only listen to music made in the 60s or 70s as "music was better then" or "records sounded better then"

all of you guys should have a t.v. show together and you should call that show THE EXPERT SHOW.

i would be the cute one

I'll be the nude one

Plenty of people. Usually they only listen to music made in the 60s or 70s as "music was better then" or "records sounded better then"

what I've heard that sounds most convincing about "records sounded better then" is that the plants were running day & night and you had a surplus of dudes who knew what they were doing, because they were lifers. this makes simple intuitive sense: you could also probably buy a better manual typewriter during the era when there was a lot of competition in the field & people bought manual typewriters

yeah, my big lesson in this has been the sound quality of 70s and 80s pressings by major label artists. the records are sometimes so thin they might as well be flexi-discs (RCA's "dynaflex" and suchlike), but they usually sound great, especially in comparison to the shoddy "deluxe" crap you so often get today. the vinyl can't have been super premium or anything, it was just industry standard goo, but the product is the result of skilled craftsmen putting in a lifetime of 40-hour weeks on top-of-the-line machinery. super pro mastering, cutting and pressing - makes all the difference.

"...putting in a lifetimes of 40-hour weeks..."

not that there aren't people out there today doing excellent work

i loved this out of the gate, and it's growing on me. i now like "eula", cheesy as it is, and most of green. probably gonna be in the running for my album of the year.

this is one of those i albums i keep putting on because it doesn't actively annoy me and then i slowly grow to love it.

is this album good

if you liked the last two

It's different than the last two, that much is for sure.

I like Red but not Blue and love this

ok i have been listening through this and i def like green better than yellow

Green is def more interesting based on the playthroughs I did

although not quite interesting enough to make me want to buy it

CAN'T FORGET THE TASTE OF MY OWN TONGUE

Tastes like chicken iirc

na but I do <3 eula.

green is more varied than yellow, but the songwriting isn't anywhere near as strong, overall, imo. and i like the more elaborate production and arrangements on yellow.

you know what's kind of a better overblown arty proggy mainstream hard rock record than this? the new smashing pumpkins

ugh no. the Pumpkins record *sounds* better than they have in a while but the songs just aren't there.

Saw someone with a Baroness tshirt on today.
Well, bye.

lol

tons of kids coming into the shop w/baroness shirts, but i think thats thx to them opening for meshuggah recently

Yeah, even as a Pumpkins stan and someone who enjoys Oceania much more than I expected too, there is no way it is better than Yellow & Green.

guys i'm trying to troll whiney here c'mon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19267248

Apparently this is the Baroness tour bus. I saw them in Bristol last night, they were incredibly. Hope to fuck everyone's ok.

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Holy shit. That really sucks.

Front page of BBC News website at the moment.

Yeah, story here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-19267414

crossing fingers. God damn.

^^^

fuck i know the tour manager, he's a soundguy at a club in town :(

"One of the pair who suffered multiple fractures was taken to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and the other to the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

The seven with more minor injuries were taken to the Royal United Hospital (RUH)."

Thankfully it is looking like there are no fatalities. Which is very lucky when you look at the state of the coach.

It was a bit weird seeing this on the news. I walked past the coach on Tuesday night and had a good look, next time I see it it's stuck in a tree.

The seven with more minor injuries were taken to the Royal United Hospital (RUH)."

Nice of Rick Ross to deliver the news.

my favorite song on this right now is "Twinkler" ... is that weird?

No fatalities in a fucking tour bus falling 30 feet off a precipice sounds pretty damn fortunate.

my favorite song on this right now is "Twinkler" ... is that weird?

― alpine static, Thursday, August 16, 2012 8:15 AM (34 minutes ago)

not at all! it's this album's "steel that sleeps the eye" (nearly the same vocal, tbh), and "steel" is gorgeous. plus it's track 5. track 5 is always dope.

The band members of Baroness and their crew are recovering from injuries sustained after their tour bus crashed outside of Bath, England early on Wednesday morning.

John Baizley has broken his left arm and left leg. Allen Blickle and Matt Maggioni each suffered fractured vertebrae. All three remain in the hospital as of this writing. Pete Adams has been treated and released from the hospital.

Three of the five crew members who were on the bus have also been treated and released. One member is still undergoing testing. The driver of the bus remains in critical condition.

Please stay tuned for further updates. Thank you for all the support during this extremely difficult time.

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just saw that. How serious is vertebral fracture? It does not usually impact the nerves, does it?