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Originally Posted by DeadDiscoDildo
If your songs suck, they suck. HOWEVER.
A bad recording (not necessarily noisy but bad as in not fitting the vibe of the songs or genre you go for) can make a good song sound bad.
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Something I didn't quite put clearly earlier: there's a common misapprehension, often around this forum, that 'a good song is a good song whatever'. In some senses this is true - Beat Happening or Urusei Yatsura, when both were good, wrote some amazing songs that were very lo-fi. But the point of lo-fi wasn't that 'anyone can do anything cheap', it wasn't a liberation of production values, it was an exploration of poor production values. It's like a lot of African music, to me, sounds better when the bass drum is rattling the mic's diaphragm... I'm basically saying that lo-fi isn't a virtue, and should only be used when it's appropriate. Some people spend a lot of money sounding lo-fi.