Listening to Titanic, which I haven't played since the day it came out. Oh, dear Lord, it is really poorly produced, I'm afraid. I mean, poorly. But I'm not a fan of the gentleman who did it along with composer Maury Yeston. The vocals are in a completely dead space, the band is far, far away and the whole thing is mastered so low as to be a joke. I will never understand this. When you have the cast albums of Goddard Lieberson, which were the gold standard of what a Broadway cast album should sound like, how anyone anywhere could think this sounds good is, well, they do, which is astonishing to me - that they can't hear the difference. Maury writes some lovely music, but his lyrics are a little pedestrian a lot of the time. Of course, the early preview I saw was so horrendously bad we all thought it might not open. But I guess they fixed it a lot or the critics were kinder than they should have been.
