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Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:37 pm
by Gramsci_Archive
As I was wandering down the road today "The Ship Song" by Nick Cave & Co. popped up on my iPod... I suddenly realised the production was so awful it could have been a Michael Bolton record...
Anyone else have favourite albums with appalling production but the songs are so good it doesn't matter?*
* I don't mean "bad" as in lo-fi etc. I mean horrific '80s production etc.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:39 pm
by kerble_Archive
Prince's "Purple Rain" and the Cars' "Drive" are both songs that I really enjoy, where the recording is almost 100% unlistenable.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:39 pm
by zom-zom_Archive
Suicide Commandos Make a Record.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:39 pm
by scott_Archive
Hey, the only reason I can easily
Kerble you on this one is because this very thread was my first-ever post on Electrical. How's that for nostalgia?
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:42 pm
by Flaneur_Archive
Leonard Cohen - both I'm Your Man and Various Positions.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:44 pm
by glynnisjohns_Archive
Flaneur wrote:Leonard Cohen - both I'm Your Man and Various Positions.
And if the Tindersticks had been his backing band for these records
i would die happy.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:50 pm
by tommydski_Archive
The first Silkworm record I guess.
If Steve had recorded those songs they would be listenable today methinks. The re-recording of 'Pearl Harbor' on 'His Absense Is A Blessing' blows the original away.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:51 pm
by Gramsci_Archive
scott wrote:Hey, the only reason I can easily
Kerble you on this one is because this very thread was my first-ever post on Electrical. How's that for nostalgia?
Your thread was more of a "shit, cheap recording, great songs", mine more of a "we spend 100,000 and it sounds like Keeny G" kinda thread...
and nostalgia is great.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:51 pm
by that damned fly_Archive
big black records sound pretty awful out of context.
still though, those songs certainly carry that drum machine.
Great record... terrible recording
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:56 pm
by slowriot_Archive
the self-titled Rex album.