Best Recorded song?

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Joan Baez- Diamonds And Rust. Just sounds fantastic.
 
Steal this Album by System of A Down
Rick Rubin makes it sound so clean yet it has that basement feel. There's a huge lack of complication which I like, as opposed to being overproduced.
The Song Inner vision in particular.
 
Deftones' song Digital Bath off the White Pony album has a great sound to it IMO. i just love the drums on it. the whole tune has a nice ambience to it. very nice.
 
Say what you will about the wallflowers but "Bringing Down the Horse" is a freaking clinic in perfect production put on by T. Bone Burnett. I have to say there are some great songs on that album as well.
 
I have a hard time picking out a single song from all the well recorded stuff I have heard over the years, but, one sticks out in my mind just now. "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul. It's a stunning sounding recording to me, and the fact that it came out in 1972 just makes it simply amazing in my book.
 
montage said:
My first thought was "Good Vibrations"; 40 years later it sounds great no matter what format I hear it in.
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Good call. Personally though, I think Kokomo was the best recorded song that they released, and probably one of the best recorded songs.
 
Before I knew anything about recording...

I listened to "Natural Mystic" from Exodus (marley/wailers) on my friend's parents infinitis. My first "wow" experience. I loved the simple tricks like the bit of envelope filter that is sometimes run off the bass track, sometimes not, and the panning of little percussion. The dub and reggae world really sees the engineering and mixing of the music as a performance.

My favorite album is "If I could only remember my name" by David Crosby (all the other guys are on there plus a bunch of the dead, etc.) It's a holistic thing-- I think the micing must have been top 70's technique-- lots of straghtforward open recording, but then also lots of echo-y reverby stuff on some tracks.

I still don't *really* know anything about recording, but I think I'll always want to listen to the whole rather than nitty gritty engineering particulars.
 
andycerrone said:
Good call. Personally though, I think Kokomo was the best recorded song that they released, and probably one of the best recorded songs.
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Kokomo had a bit too much '80s production for me. Have you listened to Smile?
 
mshilarious said:
Kokomo had a bit too much '80s production for me. Have you listened to Smile?
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Yeah. Good stuff. I think the 80's cheesiness fits the song absolutely perfectly which is why I think it is one of the best songs recorded. I don't think the song would sound nearly as good if it didn't have it.
 
Heart - Crazy On You is a good recording of a good performance, imo.

Especially (Anna?)'s acoustic parts.
 
Some albums that come to mind...
Teaser - Tommy Bolin
Revolver - Beatles
Turnstiles - Billy Joel
Something/Anything - Todd Rundgren
Boston's First album
Some good Supertramp
 
Grilled_Cheese said:
Heart - Crazy On You is a good recording of a good performance, imo.

Especially (Anna?)'s acoustic parts.
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Nancy Wilson played the acoustic. Ann Wilson did the vocals. ;)
 
gordone said:
Lyle Lovett's "Joshua Judges Ruth"
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Unbelievable sounding album. Recorded straight to digital - 16 bit no less. GM is a genius. :D
 
Id probably have to say alot of the songs from A Perfect Circles album "13th step"
The clean guitars sound soo fekin awsome at times. They sound so present without any harshness in the slightest and they sound really smooth.

I want their recording engineer to record our next album.
ANyone got his number? :)

Eck
 
ecktronic said:
Id probably have to say alot of the songs from A Perfect Circles album "13th step"
The clean guitars sound soo fekin awsome at times. They sound so present without any harshness in the slightest and they sound really smooth.

I want their recording engineer to record our next album.
ANyone got his number? :)

Eck
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Andy Wallace mixed it. I'm sure he would do your album for you. It won't be cheap though......
 
NL5 said:
Andy Wallace mixed it. I'm sure he would do your album for you. It won't be cheap though......
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Andy Wallace is a genius. Im more looking for the recording engineer rather than the mixing engineer though.
Andy Wallace did Tool also im sure.

Any idea what his recording rates would be? :)

Eck
 
I think some of my favortite recording and mixing was done on Street Light Manifesto's Everything Goes Numb. It keeps the raw sound of ska/punk, but at the same time it captures the beautiful blend of horns and drums and everything else. I am a huge fan of the sound of the drums, they are in your face, but they sound like they belong their. Likewise, the guitar is heavily distorted, usually weird for ska music, and set pretty far back in the mix. As I said before the horns are captured perfectly and brilliantly blended together. I think my favorite part of the recording is how clear and full the rimshots sound, they just sound perfect to me.
 
andycerrone said:
Yeah. Good stuff. I think the 80's cheesiness fits the song absolutely perfectly which is why I think it is one of the best songs recorded. I don't think the song would sound nearly as good if it didn't have it.
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Well, you've got me there :o
 
Almost anything recorded by Steely Dan. Cousin Dupree comes to mind. Aside from the stellar arrangement and musicianship, you truly feel like you're sitting amoungst the musicians on the instrumental sections of this songs. I use this song to A/B with anything I'm working on. This song really exemplifies what good microphones and pre-amps sound like.
 
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