Best sounding album you have ever heard?

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My Two Cents...

(* = I especially like the sound of the album)
- These are not necessarily my favorite albums. -
So, I would have to say:

1.) Cowboys From Hell - Pantera *:)
2.) Lateralus - Tool *:)
3.) As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage
4.) Black Album - Metallica *:)
5.) Archetype - Fear Factory
6.) The Ills of Modern Man - Despised Icon
7.) Akeldama - The Faceless *:)
8.) Feeding The Abscess - Martyr
9.) Allegiance - As Blood Runs Black *:)
10.) Karmacode - Lacuna Coil
11.) Ashes of The Wake - Lamb of God
12.) The New Order - Testament
13.) Wisconsin Death Trip - Static-X
14.) Ascendancy - Trivium *:)
15.) Chimaira - Chimaira *:)
16.) Above - Mad Season
17.) Facelift - Alice In Chains
18.) Dirt - Alice In Chains
19.) Natural Born Chaos - Soilwork
20.) Extreme Aggression - Kreator
21.) Human Clay - Creed
22.) An Ocean Between Us - As I Lay Dying
23.) Year of The Spider - Cold
24.) Warp Zone - Martyr
25.) Symbolic - Death *:)
26.) Human - Death
27.) Forest - George Winston
28.) Crossfade - Crossfade
29.) Point of Know Return - Kansas
30.) Painkiller - Judas Priest
 
10,000 Days by Tool. I can't believe how great the drums sounded on that one. The toms sound amazing -- I wonder how they did that?

I also love the sound of "Phobia" by Breaking Benjamin.

I wish I knew how they got the sounds they did.
 
Blue Man Group - Audio
Fucking amazing album just discovered it and can't stop listening to it!!! The engineer must of had great fun micing up PVC piping (those synth like sounds)
 
Lovedrug - Everything Starts Where it Ends (Tim Patalan)

Warmest album I've ever heard.
Great guitar tone.
(what do you expect, they're using Dr. Z and Orange Amps)
Piano tones on the piano songs are excellent and the harmonies excellent.
 
resurrecting the thread.....

Yes - Big Generator
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
Machines Of Loving Grace - Concentration
P.M. Dawn - The Bliss Album
Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
Prong - Cleansing
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pil
Catherine Wheel - Feremnt
Dream Theater - Images And Words (or Awake)
Don Henley - Building The Perfect Beast
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom (or Tones)
Extreme - Pornograffitti
Faith No More - King For A Day
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
INXS - Kick
K.M.F.D.M. Nihil
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Metallica - And Justice (Tight and Dry)
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Midnight Oil -Diesel And Dust
Ministry - Lay Lady Lay (Single)
Porno For Pyros - Pets (Single)
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Public Image Limited - Happy?
Rush - Power Windows
Seal - Seal
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
Steve Vai - Sex And Religion
Stone Temple Piolots - Tiny Music
The Farm - Groovey Train (Single)
Tool - Undertow
Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing
The Verve (Lucky Man and Bitter Sweet Symphony)
The Verve Pipe - Villians
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea
Type O Negative - October Rust
Wang Chung - Mosaic and the (Dance Hall Days single)
Cheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road single
Peter Gabriel - So
 
This thread has now officially listed every album made in the past 40 years.

G.
 
ez_willis said:
Jellyfish- Spilt Milk
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good man... you stole mine!


these are albums i really like the sound of (opinion wise):

portishead (all 3)
radiohead ok computer and kid a
supertramp crime of the century
led zep houses of the holy
and many many more...

but yea... spilt milk is probably the best recording i've ever heard.
 
Im an old zeppelin fanatic, but in all honesty, to me the 70's production has it weaknesses. I know it was cutting edge at the time, but the 80's and beyond offered so many sonic goodies.

If you can excuse the glam metal style, I feel the best recording in the history of the world is "All systems go" by the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. It's the 2nd release that Vinnie made with Mark Slaughter on vocals. It was released at the same time MTV abolished metal music, so nobody's ever heard it.

There are over 100 tracks. Huge guitars, walls of BGV's, great melody's and monster hooks.
 
Seafroggys said:
Abbey Road by The Beatles. Everything is perfect. The vocals. The bass tone. The drum sound. Everything.
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This is more or less still true, but I want to add a few new albums to this list.

My Jethro Tull albums. Specifically Benefit. Wow, what a great sound. Aqualung and Thick as a Brick are pretty fantastic too.

Also, my import copy of Deep Purple's self-titled album from their Mk. I lineup. That is a fantastic sounding CD!
 
dont know if anyone on this forum likes the scene friendly "deathcore" genre, but for the brief period i was involved in it, All Shall Perish and their albumThe Price of Existence, was brilliant. the drums, although possibly programmed sound amazing, and the guitars stay bright throughout, stand out quite well from the slugde crowd
 
Radiohead - OK Computer
Los Lobos - Collosal Head
Peter Gabriel - So
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even sank
Hole - Celebrity Skin
XTC - Skylarking

Hard for me to separate production from great playing/arrangements...
 
Having not read the entire thread but the last page and southSIDE Glen saying every album in the past 40 years have been listed I want to contribute my best sounding album I've ever heard even if it is a copy.

That album being Tommy Bolins "Private Eyes" I'll play this for people who have never heard it and they all swear that it was recorded yesterday Tommy was truly ahead of his time when it came to recording.
If you haven't heard it treat your self and pick it up and give it a listen and when you look to see when it was recorded you'll be more than surprised.
 
I have to say that "The Great Misdirect" By 'Between The Buried And Me' is by far the best in terms of sound and music i've heard for a long time.
People don't realise how much work goes into the heavier side of music, its so much harder to get a good, full sound when recording metal than any other style i've ever delved into.
 
Heavy Weather.....Powerage (AC/DC)...Aja....I really like some of the old Sun Records recordings. JLL, Elvis Presley. I am intrigued by the methods in which the old recordings were made.
 
For anything from the olden days that first came out on vinyl, it's a pretty safe bet that if it was redone later as a half speed mastered disc by Mobile Fidelity Labs, then it was a pretty good recording and judged worthy of a pressing of the highest quality.

Cheers,

Otto
 
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby

plus most of the Dead and CSNY and others. The photo of David Geffen in the gatefold is worth the price of admission, but this is the warmest, deepest sounding album I've ever listened to, and I have thousands of LPs and play them through B&W's....
 
When thinking about the best sounding album it is a hard to pick as it changes with music styles, however there are a few that stand out to me:

Jellyfish: both the Bellybutton and Split Milk, these are excellent sounding albums.

Supreme Beings of leisure: (self titled)

Beatles: Abby Road

And an album I used to EQ my concert PA too many years ago,

Robert Cray: Strong Persuader

And I love Portishead, because these albums break all the rules regarding recording, mixing and what should sound right.

Cheers

Alan.
 
ofajen said:
For anything from the olden days that first came out on vinyl, it's a pretty safe bet that if it was redone later as a half speed mastered disc by Mobile Fidelity Labs, then it was a pretty good recording and judged worthy of a pressing of the highest quality.

Cheers,

Otto
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I disagree. MFSL tends to always scoop the mids out. While the bass response tends to be pretty tight and the highs are sparkly without sounding harsh, they always feel empty sounding.
 
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