Best sounding album you have ever heard?

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Gino Soccio - Dancer

At least for dance music. Dance music nowadays sounds like @$$.
 
At the time it was raleased, Nine Inch Nail's "Pretty Hate Machine" was quite a jolt to the ear.
 
gcapel said:
Betty : Helmet (the best drum sound for the genre)

Lysol : Melvins (the low end is nothing i've ever heard)

Sieamese Dream : Smashing Pumpkins (guitars**cha ching)

Zepplin III ******
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+1 on Melvins records. I have not been into that genre of music since I was a preteen, really, but some of the production on their albums has been bringing me back. I listened to Houdini a bunch while building my studio, to get some of that sonic Karma into the walls.

But... my favorite album is "If I Could Only Remember my Name" by David Crosby (most of the GD and CSNY are on it) I have the LP, but read in the NYTimes that the recent re-release on CD is good. Definitely worth a listen for high grade early '70's warm fuzzy yet open sounding production. The pic of Geffen in the gatefold is worth the price of admission alone... :p
 
The Microphones - Glow Pt. 2 or Mount Eerie, really anything by Phil Elvrum. His recordings have extreme space, yet direct sounding. They practically throw you into some horror movie cabin in the woods. I like his use of over gained stereo amp as distortion and his random uses for overcompression (ex. My Roots Are Strong And Deep from Glow pt.2 or I Am a Pearl Diver from Song Islands). Very inspiring stuff...for me at least.
 
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The first Heart album, (the one with MAGIC MAN) to me,was one of the best to use as a reference... I still like to listen to it for it's cleaness ....... :)
 
The beach boys "pet sounds" (the stereo mix) althought the mono aint bad.

Any of the last three Converge albums.But especially "jane doe"

At The Drive In "relationship of command"

Greetings from asbury park (In a VERY seventies flat kinda way)

Rancid "lets go" (perfect for boucny punk)

The Mars Volta "De-loused in the comatorium" rick rubin ROCKS

Tool "laturalus" i fucking hate that band, but the rcord sounds nice

The new Vietnam album

Pearl jam "vs"

Ice cube "preditor"

All of the american series of Johny Cash Cuz rick rubin ROCKS
 
DEFFFINATELY second the Jellyfish-Spilt Milk record. my god. i thought all their stuff sounds great (bellybutton is amazing) but the spilt milk album is a production/engineering groundbreaker. let me stress this:


ALL ANALOG RECORDING

i advise EVERYONE to get this album (dont download it, go buy it) and listen to it in peace and quiet on the best stereo system you can find or great headphones. you get lost in it.

its mind boggling... lol



i sound like a lune, but seriously, this album is a standard in quality i base anything by. its a shame they werent pushed harder...

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zacanger said:
Jars of Clay -- Much Afraid. I'm not Christian, and generally dislike Christian music, but that's an amazingly made album.
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Absolutely crazy. I really enjoy this album. It sounds great. They do have some odd chord progressions and key changes in some songs however. I do love that album though.

I would also vote for Radiohead - OK Computer...Paranoid Android is a masterpiece itself.

I am also a sucker and will say The Get Up Kids - Guilt Show I think some great work was done on that album


Monkey Allen said:
All Jimi Hendrix stuff, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, Robert Johnson's stuff, Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde, The Beatles Revolver, Sex Pistols NMtB
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I am curious about your Robert Johnson picks. Those are some old recordings. They are amazing songs and he was an amazing guitarist, but I just don't understand why you consider his recordings some of the best sounding ones.
 
MadAudio said:
XTC - Skylarking (produced by Todd Rundgren).
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You know I'm going +1 on that.

Also JellyFish, Bellybutton is one of my favs. The drums are great on that album.
 
Sign me up for:

Steely Dan- Aja

Rush- Permanent Waves

Yes- The Yes Album

Sarah Maclachlan (sp?)- Her last few sound really good to me- especially the live ones. I don't even care for the music so much, but it so well done, I like to listen to it.
 
baker_ said:
I am curious about your Robert Johnson picks. Those are some old recordings. They are amazing songs and he was an amazing guitarist, but I just don't understand why you consider his recordings some of the best sounding ones.
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I, for one, found that a refreshing entry into this simplistic popularity contest. It's a wonderful reminder that a recording can only sound good if the music sounds good, and that "sounds good" can have many meanings. In the case of the old blues stuff, that stuff often times sounds better with lower production values than it does with the best. If Robert Johnson were recorded today in a modern vocal booth with a U47 via 196/24 Pro Tools, it wouldn't sound any better than his original wax, and in some ways would be considered inferior. It would be like colorizing Citizen Kane.

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
I, for one, found that a refreshing entry into this simplistic popularity contest. It's a wonderful reminder that a recording can only sound good if the music sounds good, and that "sounds good" can have many meanings. In the case of the old blues stuff, that stuff often times sounds better with lower production values than it does with the best. If Robert Johnson were recorded today in a modern vocal booth with a U47 via 196/24 Pro Tools, it wouldn't sound any better than his original wax, and in some ways would be considered inferior. It would be like colorizing Citizen Kane.

G.
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Very Well put
 
Best sounding album

Last Amandas first and only full length album (self-titled I think) is absolutely one of the best sounding albums of all time.
As is Jimmy Eat Worlds "Bleed American" and Weezers "Pinkerton"!
No Use For A Names "Hard Rock Bottom" also sound almost perfect in my ears.
 
The End - Introspection
Brian Wilson - Smile
maybe Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle

I want to second XTC - Skylarking and third Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
 
legionserial said:
Tool - 10,000 Days
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Radiohead - OK Computer

And for somehow I can't get it out of my head that Arch Enemy's "Doomsday Machine" sounds fucking awesome. I mean, they aren't one of those bands I really listen to all that often, and there are albums with better tunes, but to me the production for some reason sounds really smooth.
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Even though I love OK Computer, I still think they mastered it too hot... I'm pretty sure I hear some digital clipping on that album.. Electioneering maybe...

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong... I'll have to investigate..
 
Tony Rice Native American

The Who Quadrophenia

Grateful Dead Wake Of The Flood

Peter Rowan & Jerry Douglas Yonder

Macy Gray On How Life Is

Beck Midnight Vultures
 
Doobie Brothers- Specifically the Toulouse Street album produced by Ted Templeman.

Not only are alot of the songs really feel-good but the production on Listen to the Music is transcendental. Maybe it's the mandolin going on in the background but it just has that special musical magic thing going on there. I'm not even from that era of music but it still gives me goosebumps to this day.

Some relatively newer favorite albums production-wise are
Alice in Chains- Dirt
Deftones- White Pony
Prong- Cleansing
Reverand Horton Heat- Lucky Seven
NIN- Downward Spiral
Killswitch Engage- End of Heartache
 
"Bringing Down the Horse" The Wallflowers

Just really sounds like a laid back album. Everything fits so nicely together.
 
i love imperfect /underproduced sounding records. the selt titled tomahawk cd for instance. i love how raw it sounds.

disco volante by mr bungle i think is recorded great. also california.

delirium cordia by fantomas as well.

if you can't tell i'm a mike aptton fan haha.
 
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