The death of Brian Jones and the arrival of Mick Taylor. The FLAC version of Gimme Shelter reveals the ghost note in the intro: Keith’s open-tuned guitar riffing behind Merry Clayton’s vocal. When Clayton’s voice cracks on "Murder," the distortion is musical. A compressed format smooths this over; FLAC leaves the wound open.
The first "all-original" Stones album. In FLAC, pay attention to Brian Jones’ Indian slide guitar on Paint It Black. The sitar’s harmonic overtones (the sympathetic strings ringing underneath) are a digital smear in MP3. In high-resolution FLAC, they create a hypnotic drone you feel in your temples. The Rolling Stones - Studio Discography -FLAC- ...
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