No Line on the Horizon...

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Yes- this is a MAJOR issue. This album and the last one both had this huge problem. In particular, Bono's vocals on "Crazy Tonight" are so poorly compressed & mixed that its impossible to believe that its the final version. Just like "Bomb", it does detract from the quality & overall experience of the album.

This is a problem that has plagued a number of high profile releases recently. A group of Metallica fans signed a petition seeing to remix their most recent album due to similar problems- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_m...ing_production Its an issue too complex to elaborate on in one post.

What I recall reading about Metallica and their fanbase being somewhat pissed/disappointed in was one of their songs from the new album ended up on Rockband or one of those new recent video games or something like that - and the sound on it was apparently phenomenal compared to what they got on the cd. They then realized they had been somewhat shafted with the cd version and it's sound.