What Are You Listening To?

[Dissily Mordentroge]

This is the track that turned me onto blues some years ago and I still haven’t recovered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWLAAzOBoBI

Ooh nice one!  My favorite major bluesman is Howling Wolf.  Love that guy.

This is what is on in my house right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7McoBgiMzSo

That’s far, far better than the other Subtle Q track you posted. The drummer for instance doesn’t sound like he’s about to nod off and the lead vocalist isn’t pushing himself too hard.
The recording engineer (if there was one) needs to be slapped on the wrist. About half way through there’s either a very wrong choice by the lead guitarist in using distortion or the mike or something else is overloading. May work with punk rock but is this track meant to be punk? To my ears there’s way too much of that 'recorded in a very small room sound'. But hey, not everyone has the resources to record in state of the art studios. One way around that is to use some of today’s really good amateur recording technology but record in a larger space like a church hall etc.