What are the best sounding albums in your opinion?

[hma]

I`m more of an electronic music guy, but D'Angelo - Voodoo is my go to when checking sound of speakers/headphones, love the sound of it:

[excuse me please]

A Trick of the Tail - Genesis

[Erisian]

Pungent Effulgent by the Ozric Tentacles - when the first bass note hits in "Dissolution" it makes yer tummy vibrate.

i love the guitar work in the intro. ed, showing the edge how it should be done! then goes off way over the edge in soaring solo!!!
really nice guys as well

He's an amazing guitarist. I dunno how he does all that speedy eastern scale stuff.

[melomood]

I`m more of an electronic music guy, but D'Angelo - Voodoo is my go to when checking sound of speakers/headphones, love the sound of it:

two thumbs up

Still got Devil's Pie in playlist rotation

[vurt]

Pungent Effulgent by the Ozric Tentacles - when the first bass note hits in "Dissolution" it makes yer tummy vibrate.

i love the guitar work in the intro. ed, showing the edge how it should be done! then goes off way over the edge in soaring solo!!!
really nice guys as well

He's an amazing guitarist. I dunno how he does all that speedy eastern scale stuff.

yup, definitely a guitar hero! sadly won't get the recognition he deserves, due to their overall hippy vibe

[Acid Mitch]

bjork can do no wrong!

Wellll......

It's a bit like a dunning Kruger demonstration where she doesn't realise how bad at fighting she is before wading in.

[tf-drone]

Hi,

I'd like to add:
My Bloody Valentine - MBV
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

Joy Division's Closer sounds awesome and perfect but not good. Too trashy.

[Spring Goose]

stone roses. debut/eponymous

Great songs, but too much fackin' reverb. Suppose they had to a bit though, on account of Ian Brown's 'inconsistencies' in hitting the notes.

Blur - Parklife. Now that's a good sounding record.

it depends what we mean by "great sounding record".
if its a sort of best mix with clarity and great performers all around (yeah brown was a bit "off" but ...) if on the other hand we mean great sounding because it stands out due sometimes to those "over done bits" then id argue it's s great sounding record

nothing else has ever sounded like it, some have tried and no one remembers their names...
so it stands out on its own in my humble opinion.

i would also agree with the blur - parklife, although a couple of the actual songs do my head in.

back up north, more your way...

pulp - different class.
some lovely work on there, as seen in one of those classic albums shows

and donks - if you've not seen it, check out an old "that pedal show" on pootube, graham coxon showing some mad skills!!!

Also:
Blur - Leisure
Blur - The Great Escape
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

Blur have had some great sounding albums. Were all these Stephen Street? i'll have to check.

Also:
Pulp - His 'N' Hers.

Some great songs and it sounds fantastic.

I like Bjork especially The Anchor Song, but i don't like There's More To Life Than This. Spoils Debut for me. Now i understand she's the artist and i respect her decisions, or the producer's decisions, or the team's decisions or whatever.
Also Post. I don't like it all the way from start to finish. There's some songs i don't really like all the time.

Here's some of my:

The Breeders - Last Splash

Madder Rose - Panic On

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time

I'll report back with more later. I'm not done yet.

[vurt]

see, this is what happens when everyone has a right to an opinion.
people say silly things about bjork

as for bwyd time, love the record, love the band, but production wise, it's very "garagey" which does suit the style, so i would agree, but this lot seem to be looking for high production values as oppose to records that fit the production.
their cover of why are we sleeping? is awesome not on that album though

[vurt]

bjork can do no wrong!

Wellll......

It's a bit like a dunning Kruger demonstration where she doesn't realise how bad at fighting she is before wading in.

another person talking whack shit.
that's the icelandic berserker style.
it's the only martial art that every move, involves hitting your target, with both fists, both feet and a headbutt all at once.
clearly she is a master!

[mumpcake]

Talk Talk's The Color Of Spring.

Me thinks the early to mid eighties was the time when you got the best sound out from various records produced in UK. Nineties = lo-fi, 2000 forward = home studios and small budgets, good sound bye bye.

That album sounds great because the production is so not-80s, though. No super-bright synths, no exaggerated bass, and a more natural ambiance then you would hear in the reverb drenched 80s.

[Spring Goose]

as for bwyd time, love the record, love the band, but production wise, it's very "garagey" which does suit the style, so i would agree, but this lot seem to be looking for high production values as oppose to records that fit the production.
their cover of why are we sleeping? is awesome not on that album though

Why are we sleeping? I just gave it a listen, i'm not sure, i don't know the song.

Re. Bwyd Time. You're right it doesn't keep the production values all the way through the album. Tracks 1,2,6,9,10,11, have better production. I gave it a listen today.

I've got couple more which do have production values all the way through:

1/ La Roux - La Roux. (self produced by Ben Langmaid & Elly Jackson)

2/ The Cardigans - Life

[vurt]

bwyd time is still a great album though

why are we sleeping? was originally kevin ayers and soft machine

[Spring Goose]

bwyd time is still a great album though

why are we sleeping? was originally kevin ayers and soft machine

I think i'm less of an album person vurt. I was interested in the producers since Pablo Honey (John Leckie). TBH i have other Gorky's albums too and i struggle to get through it from start to finish. I started being a DJ since about the same time (1993). At first i was just programming the memory of cd player before i went to bed. I had a few albums on tape but i got on cds quite early on. Then programming the memory of cd player become a habit!
(obviously i do have cds which i listen to all the way through. for example at the time 93-95 i had Elastica, Pearl Jam - Ten, RATM, St Etienne/Saint Etienne, & The Cardigans - Life, off the top of my head, and DJ mixes Jon Carter, Moby evil ninja)

Kevin Ayers and soft machine, never actually heard of them vurt.

[Erisian]

bwyd time is still a great album though

why are we sleeping? was originally kevin ayers and soft machine

The Soft Machine - weren't they a Gong offshoot?