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but do you really need to lay into him for his appearance? Is the fact that he's fat really anything to do with him confiscating your camera?

Maybe it doesn't mean he's "lacking in self-respect", maybe it means that he's worried about other stuff than what he looks like.

on the Stooges, although it's more suited to their sound than Metallica's. And it's definitely an improvement over the original mix of Raw Power.

But yeah, the mixing on this sounds like it was done by someone working on their first record - I can't believe it wasn't caught and fixed before release.

Despite the carping, I'd still take it over the sh*tty, tinny sound on Justice for All. That album really needs to be remixed.

most of the time I can't notice it, but the sound on Death Magnetic is terrible.

I think this is a separate issue though - the problem here is that there's distortion added into everything, and it sounds like it's gone in before the mastering phase. (mastering the record "too hot" results in either a lack of dynamic range or inharmonic digital distortion - this is clearly harmonic analog distortion)

My guess is that they decided after recording that they'd ended up with too clean a sound and tried to fix it in the mix by overdriving everything - it's got a similar sound to the Iggy-remixed CD release of Raw Power, where he did exactly this.

First time I listened to the album was on a brand new pair of headphones. I was convinced I'd bought rubbish headphones until I tried listening to something else, then realised it was the album.

Also contains the last single they did for Holy Mountain (something like "CST" - can't remember the name), and only has one version of "Dance, California"

I used to have an unhealthy obsession with all things Too Pure in the mid-90s. Pram, Laika, Mouse on Mars, Seefeel, Moonshake... those were the days...

on John McLaughlin's rather excellent "Devotion" album.

Joe Preston is my bearded God.
This is a great line-up.

here:
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