Artists & Albums with crap production values..... (Take 2)

[Hot_Grits]

"-except the kick drum. we want that to sound like a ping pong ball hitting a piece of wood"

Ok, I rarely laugh out loud when reading posts.



Well done!

thank you. I'm here til June. Please try the shrimp and don't forget to tip the waitresses, they have families and drug problems of their own...

[Phildo]

"-except the kick drum. we want that to sound like a ping pong ball hitting a piece of wood"

Ok, I rarely laugh out loud when reading posts.



Well done!

thank you. I'm here til June. Please try the shrimp and don't forget to tip the waitresses, they have families and drug problems of their own...

Double LOLZ

[HANGMAN]

The 1st self titled Red Hot Chilli Peppers album would easily be their least well produced. In saying that, there are still some cool songs on there.

[Phildo]

Woah super dredge!

[foal30]

if that was recorded by the guy from Wire
Flea mailed him a turd in a pizza box as thanks.

some of the PIL stuff I listen too today is not high production standards.

[WellyBlues]

What's pissing me off is these live albums that have been provided as downloads and they tack the introduction to a song on the end of the previous song. That's ok so long as you listen to the songs in order but a real pisser when you have the MP3 player on shuffle. Johnny Cash Live from Austin, TX is one such album. Good album, he was in fine voice and humour, but the track mastering could be much better.

[foal30]

was it Gang of Four?
I have been listening to them in the last 18 months or so
Jenesis Johnson is right when he describes them as aural hedgehog

if in fact he actually said that

[Vince]

Crap production values..?

Has anyone mentioned Pavement's "Slanted and Enchanted" album yet?

It's kind of subjective though: when I bought Emmylou Harris' "Red Dirt Girl" I loved the murky, dense production (Daniel Lanois).

I eventually read the amazon.com reviews... and there were heaps of Rednecks in America who thought there was something wrong with the CD pressing. To them, the production values were crap, to me they were wonderful. It's subjective.

[Jenesis]

Sounds like my kind of waffle, foal.

As far as shite album production goes, I vote for just about everything ever released on Shrapnel Records.

[nikar]

Looking way back - anything by the Stooges, absolutely appaling production and yet the best f**kn music on the planet!!

Now i wanna be your dog....!!!

[Ironbird13]

Sounds like my kind of waffle,

blue waffle?????

[RUDENBARK]

What's pissing me off is these live albums that have been provided as downloads and they tack the introduction to a song on the end of the previous song. That's ok so long as you listen to the songs in order but a real pisser when you have the MP3 player on shuffle. Johnny Cash Live from Austin, TX is one such album. Good album, he was in fine voice and humour, but the track mastering could be much better.

That's actually something I strive to do, have instances where one song runs into the next. Reckon it sounds cool (live).


Weird that someone should dredge this thread, was thinking about this very topic in the weekend and was intending to start a thread.

Heaps of bad sounding albums around. But the one that has really got to me is the Foo Fighters' "Echos, Silence, Patience & Grace". I absolutely love that album, awesome music, possibly some of the best they've done.
But I've always felt the production of it let it down - poorly mixed; compressed to buggery; no fades (tracks just seem to jump in and out); the list goes on. It's one case where I reckon poor production has spoilt something that could have been brilliant.

The other extreme:
Not a huge fan of the album (it's ok), but Paul Kellys' "...nothing but a dream" sounds absolutely amazing! Honestly, it's worth tracking down a copy just to hear how gorgeous it sounds, you'd be hard pressed to find fault with it (music aside, lol).

[Jenesis]

Sounds like my kind of waffle,

blue waffle?????

Any port in a storm.

[thehenderson]

Pavement's albums are lofi but I don't think they have bad production values, it fits together really well and sounds good to me

[HANGMAN]

I have come up with my own conclusion to this topic-

There are 2 types of people:
1) Muso, engineer types - can always find a fault in any album regardless of the level of production, musicianship, gear etc. Able to separate music from production. Relatively a tiny proportion of the populace.
and
2) The rest of the people who dont have the foggiest idea of what we are even talking about and just care about the song/s! The vast majority.

I [unfortunately] fall into type 1 as a muso and hobby engineer, but always try to sway my mind back to the type 2 as they probably have a less critical and jaded view of this stuff!

At the end of the day, the song and performance matters way over the production.