Rick Beato [YouTube] - TOP 40 GREATEST SOUNDING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

duotone · January 2023

stickyfiddle · January 2023

TLDW; Does anyone have the list?

theatreanchor · January 2023

Link works for me. Don’t have a list but there’s very little surprising about the list. Watched it last night. Think Gino Vannelli was something I didn’t know but the rest is quite - predictable?

MagicPigDetective · January 2023

Superunkown has to be in there, he loves that album. Will see if it is now....

MagicPigDetective · January 2023

MagicPigDetective said:

Superunkown has to be in there, he loves that album. Will see if it is now....

Yep it's there....incredible sounding album

Vintage65 · February 2023

stickyfiddle said:

TLDW; Does anyone have the list?

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/bramson-/list/105517/rick-beatos-top-40-greatest-sounding-albums-of-all-time/

duotone · February 2023

@stickyfiddle Your question has been answered ^

Rocker · February 2023

Any half decent hi-fi system will make great sounding albums sound wonderful. The question is: who wants to listen to great sounding albums all the time. A lot of my favourite albums are of poor to mediocre sound quality, yet the music on such albums shines through on a hi-fi system.

Lists like the RB one have been part and parcel of radio stations for years. Does the world want another one?

stickyfiddle · February 2023

@duotone ta!

DarnWeight · February 2023

Most of my favorite songs/albums, by these criteria, would be categorised as cheaply-recorded detritus, of purely historical interest. One man's opinion, just a list, etc... I get it, but really? I've compiled a fair few lists myself, and I would always 100% avoid subjective, poorly-defined filters like "great sounding".

Don't really get the whole Beato phenomenon, but this one goes way beyond "not-for-me" and into "why?" territory.

roberty · February 2023

Wot no Nevermind

@DarnWeight it is okay to evaluate a recording on its sonics, especially if you are interested in music production. There are lots of ways to listen to and appreciate music

Winny_Pooh · February 2023

I would agree that most of those albums do sound awesome from an engineering perspective And due to excellent production & mixing ie the Sarah Mclahlan album.

It's a nice mix of both sets of qualities as strictly speaking most audiophile albums are acoustic, classical or jazz recordings. ie Al Schmidt recording Diana Krall, ECM label jazz, Alison Krauss's Paper Airplanes etc, Ry Cooder & vm bhatt, Sarah Jarosz

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Engineered_Album,_Classical

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Engineered_Album,_Non-Classical

roberty · February 2023

Modern Life is Rubbish would be in mine. Extraordinary and overlooked compared to Blur's other albums imo

Yellowman - Mister Yellowman is another of mine, pure magic

Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis

Maybe Back to Black by Amy Winehouse, a curious mix of old and new production techniques

Raindogs by Tom Waits is known as an audiophile test disc. I would probably pick another Tom Waits album but I'd have to go back and listen to them again

duotone · February 2023

roberty said:

Modern Life is Rubbish would be in mine. Extraordinary and overlooked compared to Blur's other albums imo

Yellowman - Mister Yellowman is another of mine, pure magic

Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis

Maybe Back to Black by Amy Winehouse, a curious mix of old and new production techniques

Raindogs by Tom Waits is known as an audiophile test disc. I would probably pick another Tom Waits album but I'd have to go back and listen to them again

I've got it on cassette in a cupboard somewhere. My favourite track from that album was always Chemical World

DarnWeight · February 2023

roberty said:

Wot no Nevermind

@DarnWeight it is okay to evaluate a recording on its sonics, especially if you are interested in music production. There are lots of ways to listen to and appreciate music

Yeah, but I think in this case, "well produced" might be a better description than "great sounding". Something can be great sounding without being well produced, which is what I was really getting at.

And yes, despite that, I do agree that we can appreciate music from different perspectives.

Philly_Q · February 2023

A lot of records on there I'm not familiar with. Interesting that he's included something like the Stones' Let It Bleed which probably sounded great at the time but I'd imagine it sounds a bit weedy and dated by modern standards?

To be honest I very rarely listen to music on a "good" system, so I'm not particularly conscious of how great the sound/recording may be. Of course some sound noticeably good and others noticeably poor, but it's not my priority.

bobblehat · February 2023

Not seen the vid but two that stick in my mind are Ziggy Stardust and the self titled Stone Roses Album. There's just something in the production that sets them apart.

Philly_Q · February 2023

It's the opposite of the albums he's talking about, but I can think of at least one which sounded so bad I could never get into it, even though I was very keen to buy it a the time - the Blue Murder album with John Sykes, Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin.

The songs are not brilliant, to be honest, but the whole thing just sounds so flat. They've mentioned it a couple of times on the Sea of Tranquility YouTube channel and described it well - it's not that the vocals are buried in the mix, or the guitars are too loud... somehow none of the instruments or voices stand out and the entire mix is murky and weak. I don't know how they managed that.

Vintage65 · February 2023

stickyfiddle said:

@duotone ta!

You're welcome

roberty · February 2023

DarnWeight said:

roberty said:

Wot no Nevermind

@DarnWeight it is okay to evaluate a recording on its sonics, especially if you are interested in music production. There are lots of ways to listen to and appreciate music

Yeah, but I think in this case, "well produced" might be a better description than "great sounding". Something can be great sounding without being well produced, which is what I was really getting at.

Ah okay. The "great" thing is just a catchy tagline. I can accept a level of clickbaiting on YouTube, the creators are essentially freelancers at the mercy of an opaque algorithm

roberty · February 2023

duotone said:

roberty said:

Modern Life is Rubbish would be in mine. Extraordinary and overlooked compared to Blur's other albums imo

Yellowman - Mister Yellowman is another of mine, pure magic

Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis

Maybe Back to Black by Amy Winehouse, a curious mix of old and new production techniques

Raindogs by Tom Waits is known as an audiophile test disc. I would probably pick another Tom Waits album but I'd have to go back and listen to them again

I've got it on cassette in a cupboard somewhere. My favourite track from that album was always Chemical World

Either that or Oily Water for me. Such a sophisticated album, especially compared to their first, and more sober than the two that followed (quite literally, I imagine)

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