Adam CR wrote:
EA forumist Hip Priest was kind enough to send me the 'deluxe edition' (two CD).

I just looked up the second CD:

1. Elected
2. Love and Affection
3. Billy's Got a Gun
4. Rock of the Ages Medley: Not Fade Away/My Generation/Radar Love/Come To
5. Women
6. Animal
7. Pour Some Sugar on Me [Extended Version]
8. Armageddon It [the Nuclear Mix]
9. Excitable [Orgasmic Mix]
10. Rocket [the Lunar Mix]

Nah. I'm sure you'll enjoy it more than me.

Rock of the Ages Medley: Not Fade Away/My Generation/Radar Love/Come To

You're passing this up?!

Crazy.

Steely Dan - Aja
These guys were always ahead of their time with recording technology. They were off digital by the time everyone else started using it.

Every Rachel's record sounds great to my ear.

June of '44 - Tropics & Meridians
Oh drum sound! How I love thee! And your intertwining guitars dancing beautifully together! So great!

Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. One of the first recordings where the drums started pulling at me.

Mama Clortho wrote:Halo are a ridiculously abrasive "doom" band from Melbourne, Australia. They put out an album on Relapse called Body of Light. They refer to their recording process as "demixing". I love the sound of this album.

this band is good.

and yes, whoever mentioned pony express record -- that thing is recorded really, really nicely.

Shipping News Flies the Fields

Breeders Pod and Title TK

at the drive-in - relationship of command
deftones - white pony
kyuss - welcome to sky valley
qotsa - songs for the deaf
frodus - conglomerate international
unwound - repetition
june of 44 - tropics and meridians
the most secret method - get lovely
sucidal tendencies - how will i laugh tomorrow...
biohazard - state of the world adress
metallica - ...and justice for all
embrace - embrace
sparta - wiretap scars
bullet for my vallentine - the poison
obituary - cause of death
white zombie - la sexorcisto: welcome to planet motherfucker
roadside monument - eight hours away from being a man
clikatat ikatowi - river of souls
dj shadow - endtroducing
rhcp - blood sugar sex magic
machine head - burn my eyes
stromberg - carte blanche for chaos
...

MBV - Loveless
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Black Flag - Damaged
X Ray Spex - Greemfree Adolescents
Any Godspeed You! Release
Man Or Astro Man? - A Spectrum of Infinite Scale
The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
Melvins - Houdini
The 3 Slint Releases
Any Shellac Full Legnth
Anything Matt Bayles has engineered.

As you can see, I like albums with huge, spatial mixes or ones with a great, sonic 'blend' of the instruments.

Personally, I havent heard too many records in which the production is god-awful. Even if the overall audio quality is not "fantastic", most "lo-fi" albums have a nice aesthetic that encourages repeated listenings and isnt painful to sit through. Just the opposite can be true. The overall quality of a record can be astounding, but the mix is rather lifeless and dull.

as much as eveyone hates in utero for whatever reasons, when i was young it was the album that made me realise how the sound of a record could be really important.

my fav at the moment are:

blonde redhead - in an expression of the inexpressable
sonic youth - sister
shellac - terraform
bob dylan highway 61 revisited

hmm others i can't think of now...

Anything with Creed Taylor written on the back.
Things involving Bob Thiele.