Best Recorded song?

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ecktronic said:
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
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Pretty high I would bet because he's done so many high selling albums like Sumfarty1on the album Chuck.
 
gtrman_66 said:
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.
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i second that notion....beautiful song and very well recorded, produced, mixed and whathaveyou.

i would like to add Janis Joplin's version of "Summertime" of the album "Pearl"

it brings tears to me everytime i hear it...might be because of the superior mix and tracking...but i think its alot to do with her voice in that recording...top notch!
 
Dumby said:
Pretty high I would bet because he's done so many high selling albums like Sumfarty1on the album Chuck.
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Anyone got a contact for Andy Wallace?
I tried to google it but couldnt find anything.

Eck
 
ecktronic said:
Anyone got a contact for Andy Wallace?
I tried to google it but couldnt find anything.

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Check over at Gearslutz. I don't know that he posts over there, but somebody will have his contact info.
 
carlosguardia said:
Thriller. Even if it's not my fav kind of music, I just love Quincy Jones. And I would say that Songs in the Key of Life is one of the best recorded albums in every aspect.
Carlos
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Thriller was engineered by Bruce Swedien, you can find him at harmony central where he has a sticky thread at Craig Anderton's board.

You can tell him yourself, Bruce is a very nice and helpful guy.

On topic: one of the best sounding recordings of a song that I've heard lately is 'The Patient' by Tool, from 'Lateralus'. The beginning of that song sounds great, pity that when the heavy guitars come in you can hear the pumping of the compressor/limiter, which might be the result of the mastering
 
NL5 said:
Check over at Gearslutz. I don't know that he posts over there, but somebody will have his contact info.
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Thanks man.
Ill check that site out.

Eck
 
Aja - Steely Dan (the album, not the song, though it's up there)

Crank it up and listen to the reverb tail on the opening notes of the clavinet in Black Cow. Abso-freakin'-lutely awesome. Talk about hearing a space!

BTW Southside, I believe it's Brewer & Shipley. I hope it is anyway, as many times as I listened to that song when it came out. :D

rickb
If you're going to go with Rundgren, for production value I gotta go with either Wizard/True Star or On the Road To Utopia. OMG, listen to Caravan on headphones!
For Billy Joel, hands down it's Zanzibar off 52nd Street. But I'm still pissed that they faded out so early while Freddie Hubbard was wailing. I would've paid a boatload to be there just to hear the rest of it.
Boston's first album - good choice.
Bolin - nah, for Bolin, it's gotta be with James Gang on James Gang Bang. Now there's a pretty cool production.

If mshilarious would allow for 80s production values, I dug Mr. Mister, but that's just me. :D

Lexus507
Bringing Down The Horse - I'm in absolute 100% agreement with you on that one, especially One Headlight.

Black Crowes - She Talks to Angels

And pretty much anything Alan Parsons has ever touched is golden in my book. He was to Floyd what George Martin was to the Beatles, perhaps even more so. Think where Dark Side would've been without him, and where PF would've been without DSOTM.

That's all for now. :rolleyes:


What a Shame About Me. ;)
 
MessianicDreams said:
Something like "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac. Or anything of the "Rumours" album - that album frickin rocks.
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+1 another good choice.
 
notCardio said:
BTW Southside, I believe it's Brewer & Shipley. I hope it is anyway, as many times as I listened to that song when it came out. :D
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Yep, it is. I have that song on my DJ playlist to this day, and know damn well it's Brewer & Shipley; I have no idea where "Ashley" came from :confused: . Must have been one toke over the line when I typed that :eek: .

Anyway, for a folk-rock song released in 1970 that includes both acoustic and electric guitars along with two-part vocals all in a moderately sophisticated arrangement, it has an rather impressively textured mix with a quite clean sound; especially for its time and the fact that they weren't exactly the biggest names in the business before that song went top 10.

G.
 
Shellac (of North America). I own the album Terraform. Steve Albini making music and recording music the way he chooses. The snare just freak'n sounds like a snare oughta', it crackles. It is a brutally honest recording and still a warm and musical recording. The songs are a bit tedious but hey that's Steve for you. At the very end of the album is a real gem of a son called Copper.
 
Han said:
Thriller was engineered by Bruce Swedien, you can find him at harmony central where he has a sticky thread at Craig Anderton's board.

You can tell him yourself, Bruce is a very nice and helpful guy.

On topic: one of the best sounding recordings of a song that I've heard lately is 'The Patient' by Tool, from 'Lateralus'. The beginning of that song sounds great, pity that when the heavy guitars come in you can hear the pumping of the compressor/limiter, which might be the result of the mastering
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Han, you maybe misunderstood what I meant by the reference to Quincy Jones. I know that Bruce Swedien engineered the Thriller Album but Quincy was the producer, and I think he is amazing at that.
Carlos
 
As far as the SOUND goes, sheer presence and clarity and balance, the early recordings of Elvis Presley are remarkable, especially the sound they got on his voice, and that was in the mid-late 1050s. Heartbreak Hotel, Are You Lonesome Tonight, etc..

It would seem that there were microphones then; and of course, there was The Voice.

It kind of makes me wonder about million dollar studios with 355 pieces of gear and a 500 track mixing board.
 
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