Members groutt Posted May 1, 2008 Members Share Posted May 1, 2008 Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells is one of my favorite sounding albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted May 2, 2008 Members Share Posted May 2, 2008 I'm wondering what people think are the best engineered / best produced albums out there. Learning (or stealing) is always more fun when your teachers are the best Albums that come to mind for me are: Tom Petty -- Wildflowers or anything produced by Mutt Lange (def leppard, ac/dc, or shania twain or whatever) So what are the albums that you listened to that made you want to run around and tell everyone how freakin awesome they sound? Most Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones, Floyd, ELP, Genesis, Sabbath/Ozzie, a lot of '80's synth pop, Hank Williams, Alice In Chains, Prince, newer chain saw rock, get idears for production from everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fivebodyblade Posted May 2, 2008 Members Share Posted May 2, 2008 Neil Young- Harvest Foo Fighters- The colour and the shape, one by one Coheed and Cambria- No world for tomorrow, Good Apollo I'm burning star IV Weezer- Pinkerton Matthew Good- The audio of being, Avalanche Counting Crows- August and everything after NOFX- So long and thanks for all the shoes, Punk in drublic The Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream, Mellon collie and the infinite sadness Panic! At the disco- A fever you can't sweat out Refused- The shape of punk to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DownByLaw Posted May 3, 2008 Members Share Posted May 3, 2008 Nobody has mentioned The Waterboys, This is the Sea. What a great album. Worth it for "Whole of the Moon" alone. Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Drew'sToneZone Posted May 5, 2008 Members Share Posted May 5, 2008 Obviously Floyd's "Darkside ..." and plenty of the Beatles LPs are up there. A couple that I personally love are Lanois works: U2's "The Joshua Tree" is the masterpiece of their career. I just bought the 20th anniv release on 180-gram vinyl, remastered from the original masters. Wow.Someone else also mentioned Emmylou Harris' "The Wrecking Ball." Lanois again, and as a fan of both him and a lifelong worshipper of Emmylou, that record is total ear and mind candy for me. He captured her voice at its most expressive (I read somewhere he insisted they track the voice late at night after she had had many cigarettes and a few glasses of wine). It can bring tears. Put on the headphones and drift away....PS: +1 on the Waterboys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WrdsNmuzik Posted May 7, 2008 Members Share Posted May 7, 2008 Hey, here's one I forgot . . . Japan, "Tin Drum". And Wire's "154" has a great spooky quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mididoc Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 .. but no mention of the masterpiece ear candy from Roxy Music: "Avalon"A few others that come to mind:"Ray Of Light" by Madonna (William Orbit at his best)Vince Gill's "These Days""So Long, So Wrong" by Alison Krauss"Possibilities" by Herbie Hancock"Brand New Day" by StingThanks for the many clues for some new listening! Keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bob Doom Posted May 16, 2008 Members Share Posted May 16, 2008 Chris Goss - Mark Lanegan and Queens Of The Stone Age. Rated R is so wrong in all the right ways... and Bubblegum is beautiful. Dave Jerden - Alice In Chains and Jane's Addiction. Ritual De Lo Habitual contains some of my favorite moments ever recorded.... specifically Then She Did... Those are just the ones I hadn't seen mentioned much in this list... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Bartus Posted May 20, 2008 Members Share Posted May 20, 2008 "Wildflowers" - Tom Petty +1000 Also..."Love Over Gold" - Dire Straits"JT" - James Taylor (Also, his new live "One Man Band" DVD/CD combo sounds great)"Boston" - Boston"City to City" - Gerry RaffertyThe Restless Heart stuff featured great arrangements and harmonies beautifully recorded. And for sheer ear candy, the Richard Marx stuff sounded great. I'm missing so many more, but that's all I can come up with now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members light_without_heat Posted May 20, 2008 Members Share Posted May 20, 2008 Incubus - A crow left of the murder All I can say is Hell to the Yeah on this one. Sounds so raw yet exact. The sheer sounds on this album just make the band *pop*. Of course the musicians are off the wall talented and the songs are diverse and genius but the recording def. lends a hand in the perfection of this album. If any of you have not heard a few tracks off this one, give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Hiller Posted May 20, 2008 Members Share Posted May 20, 2008 +1 for Waterboys "This Is The Sea". I would add Bruce Cockburn's "Stealing Fire" and Elton John's "Honky Chateau" albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Weasel9992 Posted May 20, 2008 Members Share Posted May 20, 2008 Death Cab for Cute: "Plans" The Frames: "The Cost" Queens of the Stone Age: "Songs for the Deaf" Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hard Truth Posted May 24, 2008 Members Share Posted May 24, 2008 Almost anything released on ECM-esp those recorded in the Oslo studio Avalon by Roxy Music should be in a hall of fame for perfect recording Steve Tibbets Yr album was recorded on an 8 track recorder in a low budget (home?) studio but has beautifully crisp and clear acoustic guitar and tabla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bebenavole Posted May 28, 2008 Members Share Posted May 28, 2008 'Secret samadhi' by LIVE1st 3 QOTSA albumsDavid Sylvian's stuffBOG live at FillmoreDown on the upside /SoundgardenPJ Harvey 'stories from the city.... bunch of other stuff cant remember right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Switch Posted June 2, 2008 Members Share Posted June 2, 2008 On some of the newer alt/rock/whatever mentions... Songs for the Deaf - QOTSA is just awesome. Fantastic tones everywhere on this album, clean and controlled but also live and loose where it needs to be. I think Dave Grohl must've had a big say in the drums, cause they've not sounded as good since. Superunknown - Soundgarden is damned good. Very deep and explorable sound; you can really turn it up and listen to the depth. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette(sp?) great emotions captured on the vocals, and great vocal arrangements. I'd love this album more without the sugery sweet electric guitar sounds on most of the tracks (not you oughta know) and some real drums would make it a touch smoother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gbb Posted June 4, 2008 Members Share Posted June 4, 2008 A Perfect Circle------------Mer De Noms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted June 5, 2008 Members Share Posted June 5, 2008 I love Enya now whoever she is so the best sound must be hers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted June 5, 2008 Members Share Posted June 5, 2008 beatles and beastie boys and bull{censored} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John A Posted June 6, 2008 Members Share Posted June 6, 2008 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures Not a "good" or "nice" sounding record, but odd, bleak and desolate, just like the music. Very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members snarekrazee Posted June 8, 2008 Members Share Posted June 8, 2008 Pendulum - Hold Your Colour they're a drum 'n bass group.this album was a step in an entirely new world for me.everything sounds so ambient and fat,and the music itself is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted June 8, 2008 Members Share Posted June 8, 2008 Joy Division - Unknown PleasuresNot a "good" or "nice" sounding record, but odd, bleak and desolate, just like the music. Very cool. But you bring up a great point because first and foremost, great engineering and sound should support the artistic statement and emotion. If it doesn't do this, then it really doesn't matter how great the microphone was or how "hi-fi" or "lo-fi" the sound is or how great the editing was or any of it. Every single creative and sonic decision should support the artistic and emotional statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John A Posted June 9, 2008 Members Share Posted June 9, 2008 But you bring up a great point because first and foremost, great engineering and sound should support the artistic statement and emotion. I think that's the definition of a good production... Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gutter Pup Posted June 13, 2008 Members Share Posted June 13, 2008 For simplicity with analog glory: "Every Picture Tells a Story" - (Rod Stewart (not long after he was jammin' with Jeff Beck, and before he went into "other directions" musically)). Listen to 'dat snare, the fat guitar solo sound, 'da bass . . . Want the real effect - - pop on a record on a decent turntable and system. Oh, the old days . . . Gutter Grandpa Pup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MBET Posted June 13, 2008 Members Share Posted June 13, 2008 I'm glad someone finally got around to mentioning Autolux's "Future Perfect". With T Bone Burnett at the helm that's half the battle. And I LOVE the sound of QOTSA "Rated R", "Songs for the Deaf", and "Era Vulgaris" A couple relatively obscure recordings by Verbena: "Into the Pink" and "La Musica Negra" sound great to me. Dave Grohl produced "Into the Pink". I'm not sure who produced the other. The guitars and the vocals just sound like rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members clap_clap_sigh Posted June 16, 2008 Members Share Posted June 16, 2008 I can't believe no one's mentioned: Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat....Quite cheesy, but the sound is phenomenal..especially the Acapella "A Singer Must Die" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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