Favorite CDs?

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The thread where dodgeaspen asks what CDs we think sound horrible inspired me to ask what CDs you all love the sound of. I hope there hasn't already been a thread like this, and I also hope this is the right place to post this.

For me, my top 3 are:
Dirt- Alice in Chains
Master of Puppets- Metallica
Mer de Noms- A Perfect Circle

What albums do you love the production of?
 
kidkage said:
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The thread where dodgeaspen asks what CDs we think sound horrible inspired me to ask what CDs you all love the sound of. I hope there hasn't already been a thread like this, and I also hope this is the right place to post this.

For me, my top 3 are:
Dirt- Alice in Chains
Master of Puppets- Metallica
Mer de Noms- A Perfect Circle

What albums do you love the production of?
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Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Peter Gabriel - So
Steve Winwood - Back in the High Life
Steely Dan - Aja

Many, many others...
 
kidkage said:
Dirt- Alice in Chains
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Oh I hear ya ;) When "Rooster" kicks in it gives me goosebumps every time

My top 3 would be

The Incident - Porcupine Tree (blew my mind into the stratosphere!)
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son - Iron Maiden (polished beyond belief!)
Momentary Lapse Of Reason - Pink Floyd (goosebump babylon!!!)
 
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" soundtrack album

I won't bother listing any others, because nothing else even comes close.

G.
 
wow! i was listening to rooster when i found this thread!


top ones for me..

a lot of queen stuff...innuendo for example...

i can listen to that and love the music, or sit and be in awe of the production......love it.


i've always loved the sound of use your illusions 1+2 by GNR, but apparently they get slated a lot on forums?? i don't get that...

i noticed californication was (quite rightly) slated in the worst album thread....
a good contrast/comparison is Blood Sugar Sex Magic! it just sounds great..........end of an era i reckon.. but it'll come back round.....right guys????? :laughings:


another one that's always bugged me....
people seem to bang on about how great STP albums sound, like purple....

the production on it has always bugged me! like..the overall sound just seems dull and dead to me...like if you took your earmuffs off, it would sound great?

maybe it's just me...it's strange, cos if i listen to the whole album, i start thinking WOW this is amazing.
but as soon as you put on something else, you realise how dull purple is by comparison.
 
kidkage said:
The thread where dodgeaspen asks what CDs we think sound horrible inspired me to ask what CDs you all love the sound of.

What albums do you love the production of?
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Is this specifically CDs ? Some of us are old enough to remember slightly more ancient musical formats.......;)
 
we're an accepting community :P

if you wana talk about wax cylinders, i'm down with that :laughings:
 
Steenamaroo said:
we're an accepting community :P

if you wana talk about wax cylinders, i'm down with that :laughings:
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Speaking of which, I have what may be the oldest recorded piece of christian pop {:D} before there was such a thing - it's some 1929 recordings by a seriously gruff voiced blues man called Blind Willie Johnson. He wrote a song called "Jesus make up my dyin' bed" which Dylan kind of revamped on his debut as "In my time of dyin'" which Led Zeppelin gave a thorough treatment to on "Physical graffitti". Anyway, it's not the best sounding wax cylinder {:laughings:} but for 1929, even though it's obviously been cleaned up a bit, it sounds surprizingly good. It's about the only pre-50s thing I can listen to.
Blind Willie sounds scary. I'd hate for him to lose his temper and tell me off ! "Hhhhey ! YyyyoooUUU !"
 
holy crap......


i was being sarcastic and you hit back with that!

lol,,,,fair play to you! i'd love to hear it if you've an mp3 copy?
 
I think my 2 favorites would be...

Anthrax...Spreading the Disease
Metallica..Kill Em All

old skool yeah...but those albums jammed baby. ;)

:drunk:
 
Since this the mastering forum on a recording board I'm gonna' assume that "favorite" has a healthy dose of "sounds the best" while being great music at the same time.

Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
Nothing ever sounded like this before. Not even the Pumpkin's own albums have managed to sound like it since. And it sounds amazing without a clunker on the whole disc.

Porqupine Tree: In Abstentia
The best "modern" sound by a mile. Great songs too.

NiN: The Downward Spiral
I feel dirty and drugged-up just listening to it.

The Grateful Dead: American Beauty
Ragged, loose, pitchy, and perfect.

Muse: Absolution
I wish it wasn't as squashed as it is...but it's just so damn good and the sonics still kick ass. Ditto for the two albums that follow it, but Absolution is my favorite of the 3 by a small margin.

Radiohead: OK Computer
Perfect.

Medeski, Martain, and Wood: Shack Man
I dare anybody to not dance. Captures everything about their live vibe perfectly.
 
Steenamaroo said:
holy crap......


i was being sarcastic and you hit back with that!

lol,,,,fair play to you! i'd love to hear it if you've an mp3 copy?
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Once I've managed to figure it out, I'll send you a copy.
 
I'm assuming this is about the best production on the CD format, and not necessarily your favorite "album" in general.

My Jethro Tull CD's and my import CD of Deep Purple's self titled album sound fantastic. Dark Side of the Moon is a given. Hell, even the 1987 master of Abbey Road is phenomenal.....while I like the 2009 master a bit better, sometimes the bass is a bit too much, especially on Come Together.

All the above have good dynamics, separation, and frequency reproduction. They're just pleasant to listen to.
 
I've got too many albums that I could consider "best sounding" honestly I don't know if I'd ever be able to pick just one. However I can say that as far as albums go I've felt the pain of the loudness war as well as many here have. But there's one that was published just a few years ago that struck me as being extremely well balanced, dynamic and all around excellent and that's "Raising Sand" by Robert Plant and Allison Krauss.

Both in terms of musical quality and production, this album is gold.
 
Get yer drinks in, are you sitting comfortably ? Here comes another shaggy dog story

I was a late convert to CD - I didn't buy a player till '93, ten years after I first heard of them. I bought my first CD two years earlier. It was called "Freedom's lament" by Callinan-Flynn and the only reason I bought the CD was because the LP was then £400 {$604}. I bought around the same time "Piquantique" by the Mothers of Invention {the line up with Ian & Ruth Underwood, George Duke and Jean Luc Ponty}. I still have them. Both sound good to me {a live album, the Zappa one is raw, like it was recorded on a single track cassette} but I hadn't heard the rare one on vinyl so I didn't know whether it was better or worse and I think the Mothers one only came out on CD. But later on, when I'd hear CDs of albums I'd previously had on vinyl or cassette {well, not so much cassette}, I noticed a distinct sonic difference, a kind of over trebly brittle sound. I was used to a slightly boomier, 'warmer' sound. I remember really noticing it on Black Sabbath's "Volume 4". It sounded clinical. I actually found a way around this by transfering my vinyl to CD, purely by accident. So, many of my CDs are just the vinyl or cassette, really.
But over the last four years, I got alot of CDs and the quality has really improved from the early 90s. Although I reckon some of them have been just recorded off vinyl because in between tracks, it sounds like needle crundling across the vinyl.
I don't really mind the loudness because all you have to do is turn it down and it saves battery power by not having to have it up so loud, or so I try to convince myself ! :D
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" soundtrack album

I won't bother listing any others, because nothing else even comes close.

G.
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I also love that!!!!!! just stunning
you should try "Hero" a jet li film, again with fantastic solo cello (i think by yoyo ma as well) - beautiful!

also i love the "seldom seen kid" by Elbow and "Knee-Deep In The North Sea" by the Portico Quartet

nice thread!
 
Is this best-sounding or best-mastered? 'Cause I like some albums that kinda sound like crap.

If this is purely for best sound (although I also love the music on these albums), then these come quickly to mind....

Dummy, Portishead
Music Has The Right To Children, Boards Of Canada
Midnight Marauders, A Tribe Called Quest
Let It Die, Feist
Odelay, Midnite Vultures, Guero, Modern Guilt, Beck (OK, you got me....I love Beck.)
 
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