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I’m an audio nerd who can’t help but be bothered by what’s happening with records and videos these days. We are using WAY too much compression on albums and getting hurt by upload quality that makes video look OK but causes the audio to suffer.
I get flustered and instantly thrown off if I can hear compression. Compression is a tool that should never be heard by the listener. But most of you have suffered from it.
It’s kind of like taking depression pills when you don’t need them.
There are more genres of music than I can count on 20+ hands. But one that seems to have gotten lost in the mix (but desperately needs a revival) is 
Am I claiming that I am hip? Hell yes! Many people might disagree with that statement… But I stand by it proudly. Call me a hipster, call me indie, call me a geek. I will stand by any name you want to throw at me. I’d like to be called chief or holmes though at least a few more times in my life…
As most of you are aware, we are quickly approaching 2010, with the general (and I would say correct) consensus being that this is the end of the decade. For me, this is a rather dire situation, because unless something changes in the next week or two, this will be the first decade in a long time to not carry with it a signature holiday song. Although the creation of Christmas music has drastically fallen off as a viable art form since its heyday in the 40’s and 50’s, we can still find in each decade at least one or two representatives to take with us through the subsequent holidays. 
This past week, I had the opportunity to travel to Atlanta, to do a pre-Christmas Christmas with my girlfriend’s family. They are a wonderful group of people, rich with Southern hospitality and warmth, as well as stroke-inducingly brilliant cooking skills. However, visiting them at this time of year brings with it one minor caveat: they love the holiday season, and when it comes to holiday radio, they like their airwaves like they like their stockings: stuffed and brimming with Christmas joy. 
I tried to wrap my head around doing a decade list, an 09 list, a ‘Why I love Brian Wilson’ list. But then I decided to challenge myself. I could come up with my favorite albums of the year or decade pretty easily (aside from ordering them which brings the challenge of making that into a list…)
In the first part of my ‘Hum for the Holidays’ series, I review ‘
We are a large and ever-growing breed. We help each other out. We fight like brother and sister. We argue when there is nothing to realistically argue about. We write about music. And we, are music bloggers.
I am one man who writes (pretty poorly) about music because I love it. I study, play, produce, engineer, analyze, and obsess about music. Enjoy all the topics I can muster up to write about.
