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I wonder if this will get kerbled. Didn't spot this one already. (Apologies if I missed it.)

I realize we are gathered here in the house of high fidelity. But:

Your favorite record that has such messed-up sound that it's extra awesome for it? The old stuff recorded into a horn counts, but what about more recently?

So, not counting a slew of old-time country and blues, and excluding the Unsane records, mine is maybe the Mickey Finn Impact Driver 7". I feel the same way about the Scissor Girls New Tactical Outline 7"s. So very wrong, and so fine.

Get listing!

I like how fucked up sounding most of the Spot recorded SST albums, esp the Huskers ones. I used to think they just sounded awful, now I think the "awfulness" is part of what makes them great.

so deliciously awful


the original, not the worthless remix


try to find the original Verve LP - the bad mastering enhances the effect

Confusion is Sex

Seriously? The Slade record? Seriously? If you're not kidding, I'll go check it out.

Vampire on Titus- Guided by Voices

Don Gardner - "My Baby Likes To Boogaloo."

It's old funk/R&B, recorded in such a fashion that everything is overdriven - the guitar (bass?) is this huge twangy monster, the drummer is riding a fucking crash cymbal the whole time, the organ is a glassy shriek echoing off of the cymbals, and Gardner is howling.

So so tight.

Skuldt wrote:Seriously? The Slade record? Seriously? If you're not kidding, I'll go check it out.

Brilliantly produced by Chas Chandler in '72. He understood that big dumb rock needed a big dumb sound.

I believe it was recorded at Advision or some similar studio, but was mixed to sound like it was done on a 2-track ten years earlier. Thick, muddy rhythm section topped off with thin, over-EQ'd vocals (as if it were bounced between tape machines).

Seriously, I love this album - maybe more so than the other two I named.

I just posted this on another thread, but...

Rusted Shut. Their recordings are strictly square-wave overloadings of one to three chord riffs. Brutal. Merzbow for hate rockers.