Beyond the Pill: Rediscovering Alanis Morissette’s The Collection (2005)
The loudness war was in full swing by 2005, but Morissette’s early work was produced with significant dynamic range. In You Oughta Know , the verse is a simmering, percussive whisper. The chorus is an explosion. On a 128kbps MP3, the transients are smeared. In FLAC (typically 16-bit/44.1kHz CD-quality), the silence between the snare hits and the sudden guitar crunch is jarring—exactly as intended. Alanis Morissette - The Collection -2005- -FLAC...
For audiophiles and dedicated fans, listening to this compilation in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) the verse is a simmering