Albums you like the sound of

gusman2x

I love Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream. Such great guitar sounds, and immense drumming.

Love The Bends by Radiohead. Probably the arrangement as much as the production though.

Neil Young Harvest just makes me feel carefree, summer like. The sound just makes me "feel".

Ghostface Killah's Ironman is an East Coast Tour De Force. Awesome production.

Dr Dre's Chronic 2000 from the other side is also an amazong sounding record.

vasselmeyer

Dan Baird's solo albums "Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired" and "Buffalo Nickel" sound amazing to me. It's as if you're in the room with a top class rock and roll bar band.

xSkarloey

RobDavies said:

I've always lived the sound of Living Colour's Time's Up album. The snare sound on Type in particular is just brilliant.

Thanks for reminding me. 

Pride is a song that  always sounded great to me too. 

You're right though, the drums on Type are beautifully recorded. Bonham quality sound and playing. 

EricTheWeary

vasselmeyer said:

Dan Baird's solo albums "Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired" and "Buffalo Nickel" sound amazing to me. It's as if you're in the room with a top class rock and roll bar band.

good call on Love Songs. |)

Phil_aka_Pip

Love Over Gold

Hourglass

PolarityMan

Production-wise I guess this is what jumps out:

Anything by Porcupine Tree

Post-fragile NIN

First 2 Karnivool Albums

Indestructible - Disturbed

Later machinehead albums (The blackening or unto the locust)

Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe

richardhomer

Robbie Robertson (1987 solo album).

lasermonkey

Big Star's #1 record Teenage Fanclub's Grand Prix and Songs From Northern Britain.

meltedbuzzbox

beed84 said:

Every time I listen to Science by Incubus I always think how great it sounds in terms of production.  I'm not an audiophile per se but I do appreciate being able to hear each instrument stand out, and for me this album really achieves that.  Furthermore, the overall sound increases the listening pleasure, especially on songs such as Glass, Deep Inside and Summer Romance.

As you've probably come to realise, I like the sound of Science.  What album(s) do you like the sound of?

I had to put science on after reading your post

its still a great album and I never realised it had so much ring modulator on most of the tracks. 

I will have to listen to make yourself as well now

Kebabkid

Pet Sounds

A lot of the Motown stuff with the Funk Brothers

Not an album but anyone ever noticed the bongos going through a wah or filter on Hot Chocolate's "Sexy thing" - cheesy, but I like it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-m9uG50mSw

Skipped

I am constantly amazed by the sound quality of albums (mainly Jazz) made in the 1950s. Actually....not just jazz. Pop music and "easy listening" albums often had wonderful  sound.

xSkarloey

/\ Agreed. I think generally they spent more money and reserved the best facilities for the classical/ jazz and big band pop stuff. But most of that stuff recorded with a singer and large orchestra for example (Sinatra over there say and Matt Monro over here) is really well recorded, engineered and mixed. 

And more often than not it was all cut live. 

Guess they all had it down to a fine art. 

mudslide73

Particularly like The Beach Boys stuff - I like Holland but can't link "The Trader" from YT for some reason.

I like Glyn John's production on The Faces stuff even though they sound like they were done quickly in an alcoholic fog. Debris an is a great example



Bryter Layter - Nick Drake. Lovely and warm with great separation. I think that's what I love in early 70s stuff.. warmth and separation.

DulcetJones

A lot of my favorites are directly biased by the music itself, I like a lot of recordings that I know would be considered below standards but the music moves me too much for me to care about that.  I do agree with a lot of the picks in this thread though, "Love Over Gold" in particular.  But when I hear a song like "Lust for Life" cranked up I can't help but love it, slightly out of tune guitars, muddy bass and drums and all.

Reverend

In terms of metal albums.
Trouble - Psalm 9 is one of best guitar sounds in heavy music. The self-titled album is one of Rick Rubin's best.
Van Halen 1 and Fair Warning sound great.
Masters Of Reality's debut is another Rubin classic.
Entombed - Left Hand Path is still crushing. Clandestine sounds a little too polite in comparison.
Metallica - Ride The Lighting. They never topped that guitar sound once they moved from Marshall to Boogie.
Rainbow Rising. Perfection.
Iron Maiden -Killers. Perfect mix of 70s heavy metal and early 80s amphetamine aggression. Not polite and not too polished. Probably my all time favourite lead tones are found here
.

bluechargeboy

Anything by Devin Towsend! Terria is incredible.
Waiting For The Punchline - Extreme. Has stood the test of time much better than Pornograffitti...
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits. You feel like you're in the studio with them, dodging marimbas and crazed tele-wielding jazz nutters.

thisisguitar

If you can get hold of it (I paid £125 for a copy!), you have to hear Peter Gabriel - Up on 200gram vinyl, never CD! In particular the track Signal To Noise (but the whole album is epic). I've never heard anything like it. 

Listened to this on my mates system, around £30k of equipment. He also has a massive music collection… he said it's the best thing he's ever heard on his system and bought the CD against my recommendations. That arrived and he was massively disappointed. He then stalked eBay until he found a copy. 

It's that good :-)

My mate and I put it on loud occasionally and just sit there with beer/wine just speechless...