# What music have you been listening to this past week? **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Music\ **Created:** [January 16, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/what-music-have-you-been-listening-to-this-past-week/2571 "2019-01-16T14:21:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1545
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> [@Panzer\_Applehusky](#): > > a huge amount of graininess/distortion It’s the album, not your setup. Very flat and grainy – the vocals were boosted during recording or mastering. I use _I Hung My Head_ from that album (“American IV”) to assess the impact of the Loudness Wars. A wide variety of music released between the late 1990s and 2010 was very poorly mastered. This content is too loud, has no dynamics, and sounds very harsh. Post-2010 music was also often heavily compressed, but generally uses better production methods. I use music from the 1980s and before to contrast with more recent (and damaged) content. See this thread for more: > [@Headphone Evaluation: Test Tracks](https://forum.headphones.com/t/headphone-evaluation-test-tracks/348): > > I know @Jaethan and @ChaseReeves were talking about this. What are your favorite songs for testing a pair of headphones? [Resolve’s Test Tracks](https://forum.headphones.com/t/headphone-evaluation-test-tracks/348/174) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.headphones.com/t/what-music-have-you-been-listening-to-this-past-week/2571)._