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Article: Just for the RECORD.(Features)
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2009
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Byline: James Delingpole
Perfecting Sound Forever
by Greg Milner
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Idon't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really,' said Bob Dylan in 2006. 'You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them. There's no definition... no vocal, no nothing, just like - static.'
Well, of course, that's just what you'd expect a curmudgeon of his generation to say. But consider an experiment conducted on the 40th anniversary of Sgt Pepper, when various young bands were invited to cover the album using the same recording methods ...