I'm listening to XTC's Drums and Wires which came out 43 years ago in 1979. If, in 1979, I had been listening to music from 1936 people would have thought me very odd.
@SeanJones
Would have sounded even stranger if the recording tech and the production (no Lillywhite, no Padgham) was 1936-grade.
I think a lot of folks must have been frustrated when they wanted to share what they remembered of the really great music of the 30s & 40s but only had crackly, echoey, quick takes on shellac to hand.
@BashStKid @SeanJones Back around 2012 I bought a new relatively high-performance car that had wide tires and poor soundproofing. As a consequence I got in the habit of listening to music from the 1930s because it was composed to be enjoyable on the poor, tinny reproduction they had in those days, so it still sounded good in a high noise environment.
