Zombies: Odessey and Oracle
Bowie: Hunky Dory
Carpenters: everything they did
Simon and Garfunkel: Sounds of silence
Comets on Fire: Avatar
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Sparks: Almost everything
Martin Denny: Quite Village
Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen

Can Tago Mago
Tom Waits "Bone machine'
Pixies "Doolittle"
Steely Dan anything through Gaucho
Nick Cave and the bad seeds "Let love in"

japmn wrote:



Martin Denny: Quite Village

Second the Martin Denny catalog along with anything by Arthur Lyman recorded in the aluminum Geodesic dome. In fact the whole era of early "world/exotica music" and the Command records label and its ilk (Brass impact, Persuasive Percussion, Percussion in Stereo, Enoch light and the Light Brigade etc..) were of extremely high sound quality, some of my favorite sounding records, some of my favorite music. If were going to engage in the analog versus digital debate, which I don't, I would probably choose amongst these albums on vinyl to pit against CD's. Man I have to get a working record player again I haven't listened to that stuff in a long time. Totally forgot about my record collection.

AC/DC- Back in Black (Were AC/DC Mutt Lange's only bright spot??)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Led Zeppelin- II (It was the first Zeppelin I ever heard and I just love the sound on it.)

ZZ Top- Anything pre-Eliminator (I know that's the "cool" thing to say, but that doesn't make it wrong")

Both Betty Davis albums

Prince- Purple Rain

Steely Dan -Aja

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (Man I love this guy's songs but this is his only album where the production is f-ing tops. And it was done on a portastudio for chrissakes.)

beloveless wrote:

japmn wrote:



Martin Denny: Quite Village

anything by Arthur Lyman recorded in the aluminum Geodesic dome.

I have one of these. That place looks like a moon base and the back cover says it was recorded with only a few mics. I can't remember what ones.
It sounds great. Les Baxter is a good choice for choral recordings.

Gene Vincent's early Capitol stuff all sounds so good to me.
Also I adore the sound of the first White Stripes albums + early singles.
Shellac's 1000 Hurts.
The Electric Eels records are some of the best lo-fi sounds I've ever heard.
The Misfits Static Age sessions.
Black Flag's Nervous Breakdown EP.
All the early Who singles. Particularly I Can See Four Miles and Substitute. Amazing recordings.

Mama Clortho wrote:Agreed. For me, the Ladradford album Steve did stands out for the same reasons. I only really like the first track, the rest of the album is fine, but the album sounds incredible.

Which Labradford album did Steve do?

japmn wrote:

beloveless wrote:

japmn wrote:



Martin Denny: Quite Village

anything by Arthur Lyman recorded in the aluminum Geodesic dome.

I have one of these. That place looks like a moon base and the back cover says it was recorded with only a few mics. I can't remember what ones.
It sounds great. Les Baxter is a good choice for choral recordings.

The microphone complement is listed on the back of the record I believe. The packaging in this genre was great too , wonderful covers and more technical and production info than the average listener would care to know. As I recall I originally bought this stuff in thrift stores just for the Album covers and because they were like 50 cents at the most. I didn't expect it to be GREAT. I agree with the Les Baxter well.

still teraform for me.