Best sounding album you have ever heard?

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Jebus Christ! This thread is still alive? I am glad I listen to music that hardly anyone on this board listens to... :D :p

The comment about "who can name something that's on the charts right now"... Who cares what's on the charts right now? Doesn't make them the best sounding stuff that's being done today!

And the Beatles... yeah they did all kinds of weird things, and went all nuts with stereo, just because it had just come out in their time... Doesn't mean it sounds "good"... at least not in the 21st century :D
 
noisewreck said:
The comment about "who can name something that's on the charts right now"... Who cares what's on the charts right now? Doesn't make them the best sounding stuff that's being done today!
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that was exactly my point. who does care! it all sounds over compressed and the musicianship leaves something to be desired too. 90% of the vocal takes have been pitch corrected too! talk about over processing
 
Abbey Road by The Beatles. Everything is perfect. The vocals. The bass tone. The drum sound. Everything.
 
rick rubin's work on The Mars Volta's "De-Loused in the Comatorium" is my favorite recording AND album. :D
 
current favorites:

Mark Hollis (or any of the later Talk Talk stuff, i.e. phil brown is amazing)

eric dolphy: Out to Lunch (Rudy van Gelder, what else can you say?)
 
recordingisfun said:
rick rubin's work on The Mars Volta's "De-Loused in the Comatorium" is my favorite recording AND album. :D
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Same here!

Well, its my favourite album and one of my favourite recordings :)
 
Favourite, at least 10 or 20, or 30 :D ...

But Elton John´s Captain Fantastic (1975) is an example of excellent recording and mix, great and big sound of all instruments, voice, great compositions, and ..."magic in the air" ....

Ciro

my songs
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Wow. Some of these read like the Nurse With Wound list. I'll add:

Steely Dan - Aja
Police - Regatta de Blanc
Ani DiFranco - To the Teeth
Phish - Billy Breathes
 
CIRO said:
Favourite, at least 10 or 20, or 30 :D ...

But Elton John´s Captain Fantastic (1975) is an example of excellent recording and mix, great and big sound of all instruments, voice, great compositions, and ..."magic in the air" ....

Ciro

my songs
www.soundclick.com/openstation
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"........you nearly had me roped and tied......":)

Brown Dirt Cowboy......what a great album this is...!
 
I wonder why nobody mentioned 'SO' by Peter Gabriel, must be one of the best sounding albums ever and it's on SACD as well.

DSOTM sounds great, on SACD it sounds absolutely awesome and yes it was recorded in the seventies, on two inch tape by Alan Parsons. Two inch tape sounds much better than anything digital, get used to it.

And Lateralus by Tool sounds great as well, but I hate the pumping of the compression, which is a result of the mastering. Has nobody heard this? Listen to 'The Patient' where the heavy guitars come in.
 
Han said:
DSOTM sounds great, on SACD it sounds absolutely awesome and yes it was recorded in the seventies, on two inch tape by Alan Parsons. Two inch tape sounds much better than anything digital, get used to it................
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Anything Alan Parsons had a hand in sounded waaaaaaay beyond it's time, for it's time, in my opinion.

Spit.
 
Hell Is For Heroes - The Neon Handshake. I just really like the drum sound on that album, very tight and punchy.
 
noisewreck said:
Interesting that most stuff listed here is old stuff. Very interesting indeed...

Since this is Homerecording.com, I'm gonna list some of my fave (best sounding) stuff that's done... you guessed it... at home studio on PCs... Oddly enough, they also belong to the 21st century :p

Exile: Pro Agonist
Amon Tobin: Supermodified
Pendulum: Hold Your Colour album and The Vault tune.
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On that note, has anybody hear listened to the second Kinesis album, 'You Are Being Lied To'? That was another home-studio effort. The production isn't as slick as the major-label stuff coming out now, but the raw sound gives the album an honesty that smoother production may well have destroyed, IMO.
 
it's been said a million times

but

pink floyd- dark side of the moon to me is sonic perfection... la creame de la crop..

now if you want to ever talk about the exact opposite of a good recording

anyone here hear the new smashing pumpkins album absolute GARBAGE (not really the album but the recording)
 
eeb said:
it's been said a million times

but

pink floyd- dark side of the moon to me is sonic perfection... la creame de la crop..

now if you want to ever talk about the exact opposite of a good recording

anyone here hear the new smashing pumpkins album absolute GARBAGE (not really the album but the recording)
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mmmm.....Dark Side Of the Moon?....yet another Alan Parsons project????.....hehehehe.;)
 
Hey all, this is my first post, only just found this site. Looks great!

I'd have to go Abbey Road, followed by Houses of the Holy, just before Zeppelin went a bit far in the studio. I used to love Tools sound, but must say i now prefer a slightly rougher sound. Early Smashing Pumpkins sounds, Gish and Melancholy(spelling??), you CAN tell when tape's been used. I have a John McLaughlin CD with an amazing drum sound, the name escapes me, but it's great.

Many more, can't think right now! Love the thread!
 
Must say i thought the recording an improvement on Machina! Still, early Pumpkins sounds rule!
 
Dark side of the Moon?

That's not even the best sounding FLOYD album (that title would belong to either Wish you were here or Animals)... let alone best sounding album ? :confused: :confused:

You gotta' be nuts.

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naw not nuts at all.. Maybe i'm basing it alot on the album itself... but there are few albums that can suck you in like that one.. even for floyd i find.. there's just something about that album.
 
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