"They Really Don’t Make Music Like They Used To" — The NYT on the legacy of the loudness wars

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Nice charts and graphs in this one. A couple of samples too.

NY Times  |  Opinion
They Really Don’t Make Music Like They Used To

If the Eagles or Marvin Gaye fan in your life is complaining about this year’s Grammy songs, this might be why.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/what-these-grammy-songs-tell-us-about-the-loudness-wars.html

 

 

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 @rando I'm sure this had to clear a certain bar of expertise and accuracy, but I don't know if it represents a trend. A lot of these Opinion columnists get introduced to the NYT by their literary agents as part of a book publicity campaign. This article is based on a section of the author's new book, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music

 

Having said that, these columns offer important, useful, and interesting information general readers might otherwise never encounter. And having said that, who knows, between this book and the impending launch of Qobuz, maybe we are trending towards good audio once again.