You missed a few points. First of all, radios compress all their stuff themselves, at the time they air it. So there really is no need for records to be compressed to be louder for the radio. Records are being compressed much for the same reason they're being mastered. To make the songs sound similar, to get the "album" - feel. Compression doesn't take that much away from dynamic, the compression is usually too small for normal people to even notice.

As for drum loops, they can just as well be called drum computers. Loops are usually made from synthetized sounds, rarely pre-recorded acoustic sounds and are always construced on a computer, which also plays them back. So, no need for nitpicking there.

And after being in the business for as long as Bon Jovi have, I doubt that they would **** up mastering or compressing the way you describe. Sounds more like you had too much time on your hands...

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