Aug 03, 2004 09:20 pm Dark Side of the Moon comes to mind...Even tho Roger and David give little to no credit to Alan Parsons.
The BEST Produced Album EVER!
Posted on Aug 03, 2004 08:29 pm
cocofromscotland
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OK Guys...
I'm learning from ma buddy Flame here with posting this type of thread AND how to hi-jack a thread (but naewhere near as good as the master himself :-)
What is, in your honest opinion, the most well produced album you have ever heard???
I am gonny stick maself on a limb here and go with: The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks. It is a top album, a great sound and one of the best as far as I am concerned...
Jump in guys...
Coco.
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Aug 03, 2004 09:20 pm Dark Side of the Moon comes to mind...Even tho Roger and David give little to no credit to Alan Parsons.
Aug 03, 2004 10:06 pm here's a related question: what does "production" entail exactly? is "arrangement" part of production?
as far as just engineering, one of my favorites is soundgarden's superunknown. i don't often listen to that album but the production is lush for an alternative metal album or whatever the hell soundgarden is. it's got a lot of strange 'spaces' and environments in it.
i gots several sound quality/engineering faves, and all for different reasons. most are from the 90's
danzig 1: extremely stark, as if recorded in a box
pearl jam 'ten' (me thinks they only did two great albums, the other being 'no code'): ten has a lot of weird mastering reverb throughout
STP core: the dual-layered distortion is neat-o. a lot of heavy distortion but with that shimmering clean behind it all. i wish i knew how to do that.
nirvana 'in utero': not my favorite nirvana album songwise but productionwise it's huge and more realistic than if it were merely realistic
thats all i can think of for now.
Aug 03, 2004 11:54 pm Piper At The Gates Of Dawn... just raw enough... completely self-indulgant-mixing... brilliant material to work with . Perfection, in my ears .
When I heard the 'new', line-up's live-version of Interstellar Overdrive, I was in awe, all over again . That band is nothing short of amazing, at just about every stage of their existance .
Aug 04, 2004 12:23 am You know, this CD is a new one but it has some great production... A Perfect Circle's 13th Step
listen to it in headphones... very good. so much texture in the audio
Aug 04, 2004 06:37 am Yeah, Piper is a great album as well, as is Wish you Were Here...
Aug 04, 2004 07:29 am In general, I think Boston and Def-leppard have put out consistantly super polished products. Im not much of a def fan, but i can dig the "perfection" factor fur-shure.
Aug 04, 2004 08:32 am Few will know these but man they are good...
Pilfers - Chawalalang
The Slackers - Better late than never
Chawalang:
Unbeliveable record (both writing and production). The production efforts on this album helped make this ska/rock band appeal more to a larger audience. Listening to it in headphones is amazing. So much sutile details and the mix is amazing.
Better late than never:
The Slackers first CD (1996). Mixed by Victor Rice (a modern ska/reggae/dub legend). Holy cow, this guy can mix an album (check out www.victorrice.com to see all of this stuff). This CD is american ska/reggae with overtones of jazz influences. So warm and soothing to listen to; wonderful song writing and performing as well, of course ;) Again, sutile touches, thought, and an amazing mix... I love this CD.
Aug 04, 2004 11:05 am Anything produced by Adam D. Of Killswitch Engage owns. i.e. New Unearth, or The New Killswitch for insrance
Aug 04, 2004 01:34 pm velvet revolver's contraband is a good CD too...
Aug 04, 2004 02:03 pm pink floyd- animals...really underrated album in a lot of ways
and ya, superunknown by soundgarden is great too
hendrix- electric ladyland, with the exception of "burning of the midnight lamp"- other than that song, great production, like on "rainy day, dream away" and "1983- a merman i should turn to be"
smashing pumpkins- gish... all the instruments up in your face, but in a good way
Aug 04, 2004 08:43 pm I would have to say I really like the Deftones album White Pony recording wise. Not their best album compared to previous ones, but still great songs mixed with great recording.
Aug 04, 2004 09:14 pm Animals ! Yup ! (Sometimes pronounced, 'Aminals')
LOL
Oh yeah, on the Hendrix tip... Axis: Bold As Love ! Both these albums that have been destroyed in my collection, and I miss them terribly... BUT I did recently replace my Black Sabbath Volume 4, which wins my " Baddest First Note on an album "-award, hands down ! heh heh
Aug 04, 2004 09:55 pm Black Label Society - The Book of Shadows
Excellent acoustic sounds! Not alot of overdone effects. A terrific album also.
Aug 04, 2004 10:37 pm Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, and Animals;
The Beatles' Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, Abbey Road; Tom Waits' Mule Variations
...
oh and how could i forget Wesley Willis' Greatest Hits!!!!
Aug 05, 2004 02:43 am and how could we forget nine inch nails the downward spiral
Aug 05, 2004 06:08 am Beatles stuff was all classic tae - aye - best band ever man...for originality and studio tricks - they invented it all man. Backwards loops, forwards loops, cutting up the tape throw it in the air then stick it back together...LEGENDS!!!
I personally like the Revolver/Rubber Soul stuff. The last stuff they done was all individual i.e. McCartney done his own thing, often playin everything, Lennon, Harrisson etc. So - the last 2 albums, dont sound as good as the stuff they doen at the start to ma ears.
George Martin - a legend.
Coco.
Aug 05, 2004 09:59 am Here's my two-cents:
1. Spilt Milk - Jellyfish
2. Big Lad In The Windmill - It Bites
3. Stop - Sam Brown
4. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
5. You, Me, Us? - Richard Thompson
6. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
7. Surfacing - Sarah McClaughlin (spelling?)
8. Duke - Genesis (we are just talking production, right)
But that's just my opinion...
Aug 06, 2004 12:08 am Steely Dan - Aja
Counting Crows - August and everything after
Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon
Much of the Beatles (yes George Martin is a legend)
In no order, just some albums that came to mind. Tallchap I liked Surfacing too.
Aug 06, 2004 12:44 am I wasn't going to say anything, but you guys are forgetting a great album...OK computer.
1. Abbey Road--has the greatest second side on vinyl
2. OK computer--every song is perfect even "fitter,happier"
3. Dark Side--duh
4. Pet Sounds--the man created "new instruments" by combining two or three instruments into one. It sounds simple, but who did it first?
5. Zeppelin III--raw when needed, refined when needed, religious all the time.
Aug 06, 2004 10:39 am Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom; Lush but still harsh in a very strange kinda way.
Most Any Later Tom Waits; You know it rocks when you can hear the piano bench and hammers creaking.
Therion - Sirius B/Lemuria; Such dense recordings so well separated and arranged...definite props to them for pulling it off at long last.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part; If you've heard this one 'nuf said...
Aug 06, 2004 02:23 pm I really like Jeff Buckley's Grace which was produced by Andy Wallace. I like a lot of stuff that Andy has done.
I also really like RHCP's Blood Sugar Sex Magik and most ofther Rick Rubin produced Albums.
Of course, the Beatles stuff can't even be compared to anything else because they started it all in my mind.
Aug 06, 2004 04:48 pm Utopian - you hit it RIGHT on the heid...Innovators NOT immitators. Genuises. Lennon - my all time hero...top songwritter, genuis, artist and everything else...legend.
It irkes me when I hear some of the stuff Phil Spector done to Lennons stuff when Lennon was so wasted he didnt know what was goin on (his own fault admitedly). Alas, Phils stuff is good in the right place...too much guff on Johns records for my liking tho.
Still..Lennon is, my mind, and always will be - THE MAN. RIP JL!
Hey, I hijacked my own thread a bit there!! hehe.
Coco.
Aug 06, 2004 08:29 pm And I guess now we should throw in Rick James' Superfreak. He's in a better place gettin freaky now!
Aug 06, 2004 08:35 pm just to add 3 more that i think shouldnt be overlooked:
Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde
Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra
Aug 06, 2004 09:08 pm Good call on Jeff Buckley's Grace. That album is so perfectly performed and produced that its almost a sin.
Anything from Radiohead, from The Bends onward...the sheer amount of stuff they can have going on at one time and not have it sound muddled is amazing. I can't even get 2 guitars, a drum machine and vocals to not sound muddy.
And I think that Rift from Phish is a masterpiece of a studio album...another one that is so perfectly performed and produced that its almost inhuman. But it still grooves as if they're in the room with you.
On the rougher side of things, I think that Sparklehorse has a great mind in the studio. Mark Linkous doesn't have the best discretion as a producer, but he puts together some of the coolest textures I've ever heard. Listen to "Its A Wonderful Life" if you get a chance and you'll know what I mean.
And as far as Blonde on Blonde, while it is an excellent and essential album, I don't think that the production on it is particularly good. It's so jangly and trebly and even distorted in places. Of course, that was 1965 or so, so maybe that was the standard for the day.
Aug 10, 2004 10:38 pm DEATH-The Sound of Perseverance
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