The Worst Mastered CD Release You ve Encountered

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I'm talking mainstream releases (maybe the reissues sound great, but not these) that you can't believe made the racks.

I stole my mom's CD copy of We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'n' Roll just so I could hear "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" in the car since my iPhone doesn't seem to work with my Pioneer deck... I almost had to turn it off. It sounds like it was mastered for CD directly from the LP, which was mastered from a second generation tape.

I'd like to give special mention to the first CD release of Aqualung here as well.
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The Worst Mastered CD Release You ve Encountered

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Raw Power. (Not because the Iggy mix is totally shit - I like the versions of "Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell" and "Shake Appeal" - but because he tried to change history (alternate vocal on "Gimme Danger"; unforgivable), and because he put shittarific digital distortion on many of the guitar parts.)
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The Worst Mastered CD Release You ve Encountered

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firstly, good call on the beach boys mention.

secondly, my picks are green day's "american idiot" and the latest white stripes record.

thirdly, mudcrutch got all that press for including a cd with the vinyl copy which was produced straight from the vinyl masters. my question: is it this easy? i mean, if any of us told the mastering folks it was being mastered for vinyl, then just took those masters and put them on cd instead, would that sound good?

just a thought...

The Worst Mastered CD Release You ve Encountered

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That Voivod album always sounded like ass. I don't think anything could save the production on it. Not that that would stop me from listening to it, of course. I'm still listening to the same store-bought cassette copy that I picked up when it came out. For some reason it has been sitting in my car for about the last 4 years so if I don't have my iPod or don't feel like listening to the radio, I usually reach for that.

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