Really WELL recorded Music?

All the Shpongle (Goa Trance/ Ambient) albums are VERY well produced. I've not heard any other albums with such crystal clear clarity.

By far the best chill out/ psychadelic music ever made.

edit - Any of their albums will really show a system off to it's best
 
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I could be wrong but The Big Come Up by The Black Keys sounds pretty good to me. They kick some serious booty too, which helps.
 
jackgnic said:
Marillion - Marbles (because it is well produced and flippin' brilliant!) :D
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Really enjoying this- will definatley be purchasing :)

The only other album I have mentioned here already is OK Computer (And yes, very well recorded indeed; Karma Police sounds sublime and really shows what a sound stage my speakers have)
 
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Eric Clapton - Me and Mr Johnson and Sessions for Robert J

Recorded live with all the band members in the same room playing at the same time.

Sounds fantastic.
 
ruffneck said:
I thought Original Pirate Material by the Streets was a really well produced album

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Is it? Its a decent album (Have it as a legal mp3 album)- no idea on cd production quality though
 
GeezerButler said:
Trouble is a lot of music is produced, mixed and mastered to sound good on the radio.
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Or Ipods... They try and create this 'wall of sound' impression by cranking up the recording levels.
 
The first Hell is For Heroes album... Particularily Disconnector and Five Kids Go... Superb production on there, they managed to steer away from "wall of guitar" without losing the power. Excellent clarity.

Let go by Frou Frou as well, just the right light touch.
 
Bes said:
Or Ipods... They try and create this 'wall of sound' impression by cranking up the recording levels.
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They just compress it to hell and back at the mastering stage to give it that 'big sound'. It just squashes all the life out of the music.

60's/70's recording techniques > *.

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Favourite well recorded album, at the moment, Band Of Gypsies - Hendrix - sounds gorgous on my dads new Quad 99 HiFi ;)
 
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Speaking of modern rock albums, and the Hell is for Heroes producers for that matter, these guys are geniuses in my opinion.

Pelle Henricsson and Eskil Lövström
They have worked with the following bands:
Poison The Well, Hell Is For Heroes, In Flames, Cult of Luna, Refused, Bombshell Rocks, Breach, Jeniferever, KVLR, Convoj, Starmarket, The Kinison, Waver, Amulet, Disco Ensemble, Fireside, Khoma, Blindspott, Dukes of Windsor

Refused - 'The Shape of Punk to Come' is a modern day masterpiece. I think you can even get a Dolby 5.1 version of it too.
 
Could not agree more, sist_si. Incredibly good... No idea why I didn't mention Shape of Punk To Come, now I think about it. And here's the credits list:

Pelle Henricsson (Tambourine), Pelle Henricsson (Producer), Pelle Henricsson (Engineer), Pelle Henricsson (Mastering), Pelle Henricsson (Mixing), Pelle Henricsson (Surround Mix), Eskil Lovstrom (Producer), Eskil Lovstrom (Engineer), Eskil Lovstrom (Mastering), Eskil Lovstrom (Mixing), Eskil Lovstrom (Surround Mix)

Quite a big input then :)
 
Ok ordered a few new cds today using some spare vouchers I had- quite an eclectic mix- hopefully some well recorded material in there:

Gomez In Our Gun & How We Operate (Not for the recording quality but just to finish off my collection of their albums)

A Certain Trigger- Maximo Park (Expecting this to be a poorly recorded one tbh but a great album nontheless)

Shpongle-Tales of the Inexpressible

Marillion- Marbles

Pieces in a Modern Style by William Orbit (Been meaning to get this for ages- thanks for reminding me it existed :D)

Call Off The Search by Katie Melua (Bit of a wild card as only heard Crazy, but if the rest of the album is musically similar it will sound great on my system)

And picked up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas too as it was going cheap :cool:
 
I Robot....... Alan Parsons
Gish .......... Smashing Pumpkins
1st album.... Ryukyu Underground
Permanent Waves ...... Rush
Solid Air/One World .... John Martyn
Colour of Spring......... Talk Talk
Glee/Discosis............. Bran Van 3000
 
Bill101 said:
anything on the ECM record label.Classical recordings on Deutsche Gramophone used to be very well recorded.
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Got it in one, those ECM CDs are clarity itself with regards to sound quality. DG as well. Probably the best spatial awareness I ever got from a CD was listening to DG's Lohengrin conducted by Abbado: I was using a pair of good cans, and, in the intro to the final scene of the opera, when those 2 off-stage trumpets rang out, I actually turned my head towards the sound, momentarily fooled that it came from out the window! :D That opera was recorded using something they called "4-D technology" which is probably marketting-speak for "lots of expensive mics" :p
You can't beat their older stuff though - that series of reissues of recordings from the 60s they did a few years ago, where the CD was painted black to make it look like a vinyl record? The clarity and detail of the sound may not have been up to today's standards, but it was somehow a warmer feeling, and I have no idea how to describe this more accurately and objectively. It was simply a more intimate sound, made you feel like you could almost see the musicians' faces.
 
FireMoon said:
Gish .......... Smashing Pumpkins
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Huh? Much as I am a fan of the Pumpkins, Gish sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom :p

I would add:

Damien Rice - 9 and O are both stunning
Tom McRae - Tom McRae
Beck - Sea Change

From memory I seem to remember Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms and Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing sounding good

I miss having a decent HiFi :(
 
as we have gone from well recorded music to well produced/engineered music, I will have to add almost all of Brian Eno's work such as
James...''Laid''
U2..''Joshua Tree''
Talking Heads...''Remain in Light''
 
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Huh? Much as I am a fan of the Pumpkins, Gish sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom <---------- not on my Linn Turntable and custom speakers it doesn't.. :D
 
FireMoon said:
Huh? Much as I am a fan of the Pumpkins, Gish sounds like it was recorded in a bathroom <---------- not on my Linn Turntable and custom speakers it doesn't.. :D
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you can have the best equipment in the world, but if the source is ropey...

;)
 
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