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Originally Posted by Badlittlekitten
Have you heard it? It's infamously LOUD.
It's an odd argument though, as a musician myself I wouldn't think of telling a producer to make everything louder. I'd leave that up to the listener. Sounds like macho willy waving.
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Yes, it is an infamously loud record, but being released in 1973 before the great compression battles really got started, the loudness that the listener perceives is a result of the producer (Iggy Pop himself) pushing the overall track levels to the point of clipping the signal, and not the result of the album being mastered with a huge amount of compression, which is what the OP is talking about in his original post.
In the case of
Loudness Wars, which is really a
compression war, the resulting loudness is usually not from any sort creative decision or input from the musicians themselves who are creating the music , but a marketing technique used by record companies so that an album or song gets noticed or stays at the forefront of a listener's attention.