: Known for its cinematic quality, it was featured in the 1991 film and more recently in the 2023 premiere of "Jacob's Ladder" : While originally a #1 hit for Huey Lewis and the News
While the 1988 release is a staple of late-80s radio, the (part of a wider campaign by Audiophile remastering teams) invites listeners to strip away the radio static and rediscover the album as a cohesive, richly textured masterpiece of American songwriting. : Known for its cinematic quality, it was
The original 1988 mix was notoriously compressed for FM radio. The 2021 MoFi release promised to strip away that "loudness war" fatigue, revealing the subtle interplay between Hornsby’s Steinway and the late Joe Puerta’s fretless bass. More importantly, the 2021 RAR was notable for
More importantly, the 2021 RAR was notable for what it didn’t have: the loudness war compression. The dynamic range score, measured via the TT Dynamic Range Meter, hovered around DR13—an anomaly for a digital file from that era, which typically sat below DR8. which typically sat below DR8.