Best Sounding CDs Ever?

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My votes:
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach;
U2 - Achtung Baby;
Beck - Sea Change;
Depeche Mode - Violator;
and, for different reasons,
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session.

Happy listening!
Rich
 
Well last year SlumDog Millionaire came out

This soundtrack won an OSCAR and the film 6!!!!!!

Who is this soundtrack composed by?

A.R Rahman, an Indian (Bollywood) producer who has been around Bollywood for awhile but now is considered a living legend in India.

The soundtrack was composed in the most advanced studio in Madras India.
It consists of excellent dholak rhythms and spoken beats. Along with some intense electronic sounds... when listening with headphones these songs are incredible and will blow your mind..Indian engineers are among the best and this cd is the apithemy of great production.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
 
I think most of Michael Jacksons CD's have some of the best sound quality.
 
CountryFriedENT said:
I think most of Michael Jacksons CD's have some of the best sound quality.
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yeah,,i always thought that some of jackos albums, and later queen productions could be released then or now. The quality would still stand up IMO.
 
Spazhands said:
For me its Queens of the stone age and Songs for the deaf. So much louder and powerful sounding than a lot of recordings without being a mess.... Always have to turn down a bit when a track pops up in my playlists!
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o yes.

go with the flow in paticular,

and the drums on songs for the dead......... dammit.......
 
Chibi Nappa said:
What do you guys think about CDs that clearly aren't "good" recordings, but fit the music so well that they make for a "perfect" listen?
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Immortal - Pure Holocaust: Lo-Fi Black Metal at its best.
 
Dunno, I think an argument for Darkthrone and Transylvanian Hunger might count for that as well. Mayhem's live bootlegs too. Hmmm... anything recorded live that is really high energy tends to be a little trashy. But it can fit with the music style/energy of the show, and that is 100% ok.

Also, I am pretty sure the 1st offering from Burzum was made as gritty, trashy, and just flat out obnoxious as possible. Good album, but I remember an interview where Varg was talking about the gear used... he asked the tech to get him the shittiest mic he could... supposedly it ended up being either headphones, or a headphone mic (don't remember).
 
Chibi Nappa said:
What do you guys think about CDs that clearly aren't "good" recordings, but fit the music so well that they make for a "perfect" listen?
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There's nothing wrong with that, though if you want to split hairs, a recording that is purposely made to sound imperfect for some artistic reason and succeeds, is still a good recording and an example of fine engineering.

One of my favorite, if somewhat more subtle, examples of something like that would be "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave. He creates a practically cliche "B-horror" sound with his use of the tubular bells, Theremin and organ, but that dirty, quasi-overdriven sound on the organ in the midst of the rest of the ultra-clean production is a really effective way of putting an exclamation point on the mood, making the whole thing sound much more "vintage" than it really is.

But we're also starting to expand away from the original question; it's real easy for threads like this to simply turn into excuses to list albums of music that we like, using the production as an excuse to list it, even if it's not really all that "special". This Nick Cave song is a good example of that. While I appreciate the job done with it as explained, I'd never list it near the top of the best recorded or produced recordings I've heard.

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
But we're also starting to expand away from the original question; it's real easy for threads like this to simply turn into excuses to list albums of music that we like, using the production as an excuse to list it, even if it's not really all that "special". This Nick Cave song is a good example of that. While I appreciate the job done with it as explained, I'd never list it near the top of the best recorded or produced recordings I've heard.

G.
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Not a big deal. It's sort of hard to list music that you don't like that sounds good. ;)

Some more good ones:

Beautiful Freak-Eels

Especially on Novacaine for the Soul. It just sounds so good to the brain. The drum sound, the guitar, the vocals. It's simplistic and it's awesome.

The album is hit-and-miss, but there are some great songs on it.

Blind Melon-Blind Melon

Great album, sounds good, excellent guitar work, some notable bass, unique vocals, awesome songs. An album that you can listen to all the way through. It's a real shame Shannon Hoon (vocalist) died.
 
willied said:
Not a big deal. It's sort of hard to list music that you don't like that sounds good. ;)
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It may be initially hard to do that, I agree, but it's really a key value to be able to analyze the production and sound separate from the enjoyment of the music.

For example, two of those three albums I listed as my offerings for this thread are not albums that I actually stick in my CD player to listen to. I don't exactly go driving down the road listening to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" blaring on the car stereo :D.

And while I definitely appreciate what Parsons can do with an album's production, with "Turn" being one the best examples of his work IMHO, it's not really my preferred cup of tea for listening to purely for entertainment.

G.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
It may be initially hard to do that, I agree, but it's really a key value to be able to analyze the production and sound separate from the enjoyment of the music.

For example, two of those three albums I listed as my offerings for this thread are not albums that I actually stick in my CD player to listen to. I don't exactly go driving down the road listening to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" blaring on the car stereo :D.

And while I definitely appreciate what Parsons can do with an album's production, with "Turn" being one the best examples of his work IMHO, it's not really my preferred cup of tea for listening to purely for entertainment.

G.
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I hear ya on that one. I was thinking it was kind of odd for one to blast "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the car stereo. :D
 
willied said:
I hear ya on that one. I was thinking it was kind of odd for one to blast "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the car stereo. :D
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Yeah, that's one to save for playing when DJing at dance clubs. The chicks love it :rolleyes:.

G.
 
I think the cd or record I would use by which to judge all other productions is Dave Grusin's "Out of the Shdaows." First rate top shelf in every way!

After that, the second (silver) Chicago album, Steely Dan "Royal Scam," Doobie Bros "Minute by Minute," and whether I like the songs or not there are a few really superb productions coming out of country Nashville, Lisa Brokop "West of Crazy" and some Vince Gill stuff come to mind.
 
Wow, yea somebody mentioned movie scores like crouching tiger hidden dragon. and its funny because just the other day i was watching Avatar on blu ray and the score of it was so crisp and clean, i mean alot of times i like to compare my Mastered projects to Mainstream mastered projects and im pretty much on point, but i was thinking that maybe i would compare my next project to the scores of movies that have exellent mastering..


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The best sounding and best produced CD I have ever heard would have to be "Blue Sky Noise" by Circa Survive.
 
Check out the Score to the remake of the Time Machine, by Badelt. Amazing stuff, sounds great to me. Best part of the film, that and the TM prop.
 
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