Blueshift

Purple rain by Prince, from the movie with the same name

That Pedal Show: weekly show about guitars, pedals and amps. I haven’t missed an episode in over 10 years

We’ll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange…

Fair enough

It is also a ii-V-I progression, one of the most common in all of music, so I’d bet on this being a coincidence

Carpe Jugulum, great book!

The average user should not have to learn about compressors to have a proper audio mix on a regular tv. It is way more reasonable to have the default mix be for the average home system, and require the enthusiast to select a different audio mix more suited to their system (which is asking a lot less of them than learning about compression). The main reason this doesn’t happen is because movie and television producers can’t be arsed to pay for multiple mixes.