Pillows, Shinkichi Mitsumune - FLCL Fooly Cooly OST 1: Addict
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Free Music Notes for FLCL Fooly Cooly OST 1: Addict
Free Music Review: The Pillows are Excellent
Hit: 4 Stars
The Pillows are a fantastic, and this is an excellent CD, especially if you are a FLCL fan. I highly recomend it. However, I am a little disapointed that certain tracks were absent or abrieviated; I'm pretty sure that there are longer versions of 'the last dinosaur' and 'carnival' with lyrics, and 'I think I can' is nowhere to be found - thus the 4 star rating. Still, the Pillows are excellent and I am very happy I purchased the CD, as I'm sure you will be.Free Music Review: I like it...
Hit: 4 Stars
The music to Fooly Cooly is nice. I like many of the songs by the pillows. I really enjoy Ride A Shooting Star and Little Busters. The one star removed is not because of anything bad. It is just that I don't love the CD. I just like it - therefore, four stars only.Free Music Review: Pretty good disc...alot of instrumentals
Hit: 4 Stars
its a pretty awesome cd. i bought it because of the pillows tracks on it, and i got what i wanted. the only thing is that it is mostly instrumental tracks. but if you want a disc with some awesome guitar work, this is a great cd.Free Music Review: ride on shooting star...
Hit: 4 Stars
thanks for the speedy delivery! it was a gift for my sister, and her favourite album track is, predictably, 'Ride On Shooting Star'. Thanks again! -natalieFree Music Review: Great soundtrack, abysmal mastering
Hit: 3 Stars
Anyone who's seen FLCL knows why they should own this album. I loved FLCL even though I hate most anime. Sadly, after purchasing the soundtrack, I'm forced to express some disappointment, though I don't know that I regret the purchase. Unfortunately, this CD suffers from a malady that plagues the whole music industry today. Compression. No - not mp3 compression -- dynamic-range compression. The loudness race.
This album has the worst mastering of any CD I have ever heard. Replaygain values on most tracks range from -10 to -12db. The clipping and distortion are actually worse than other CDs I've seen with compression in that range. Some of the best songs, such as "Hybrid Rainbow" and "Ride on a Shooting Star" seem to have been the most harsly victimized. The engineer that did this and the pinhead label exec that ordered it should be taken out and shot. Destroying music to this degree is a crime against man and nature.
The same crooks who are doing this are going to come back in a few years and try to sell us better sounding "remastered" versions of all the music we've already purchased on some crippled format like SACD or DVD-Audio. Make no mistake - it's a scam, plain and simple. The poor audio quality on CDs today is a result of the mastering, not a limitation of the format. SACD and DVD-A have nothing to do with quality and everything to do with selling you the same music twice in a format that limits what you can do with your music and ties you to THEIR choice of proprietary playback devices.
The other flaw, as other reviewers have mentioned, is that there are essential tracks missing from Volume 1 (Addict). Volume 2 (King of Pirates) has the missing tracks, but also has several long "drama" tracks that aren't interesting unless you understand Japanese and are a hard-core anime fanatic. The mastering isn't QUITE as bad on Volume 2, but most of the non-drama tracks are still heavily distorted. I have not heard the Pillows regular releases such as Happy Bivouac, so I don't know if they are mangled to the same degree. Many of their releases are from the early 90s, so it is likely that they do not. If that is the case, less distorted versions of the same songs are probably available.