Best 5 engineered rock albums?

Let's not forget Ricky Lee Jones "POP POP".

If you're talking about audiophile quality sound, my top five
would be:

Pink Floyd- "The Final Cut" (heads above Dark Side for sound)
Dire Straits- "Love Over Gold"
Rough Trade- "Weapons"
Human League- "Dare"
New Order- "Blue Monday" (the 45rpm 12 inch single)

Production value-wise, it's a matter of taste. I like

Kate Bush- "Hounds of Love"
Cocteau Twins- "Heaven of Las Vegas"
Beatles- "Revolver"
REM- "Out of Time"
Jimi Hendrix- "Electric Ladyland"

(ironically, none of them have particularly good sound).

seantaylor99 -

sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. I had NEVER listened to Lenny K. cuz I just suspected he was just a MTV tool. LOL, I was actually just asking you for some more info. Sorry for the confuzion.

pcanis

I gave this a bit of thought, and I must admit there should be two categories. CD and Vinyl. There are some albums that are really great on vinyl, but just didn't cut it on CD. And vice versa. Here's my list regardless of the medium:

Metallica-The Black Album (Enter Sandman)
Not my favorite album but truly one of the best if not THE best recorded hard rock album of all time.

Meat Loaf- Bat out of Hell
Great on vinyl. So so on CD

Rush-2112
Excellent on both mediums

Blues Traveller-Four
Outstanding on CD

Badfinger-Wish you were Here
Actually better on CD. The vinyl is very good, but this is a very dynamic album and shines on CD. Possibly the best album that Chris Thomas ever produced by the best Band that almost was.

Pcanis .... sorry myself to have got you wrong. Hopefully no offense caused.

Anyway your thought that Lenny Kravitz was merely copying older 70s music is quite close to the mark. He is ! However I still think this album has some enjoyable tunes and a very immediate sound, particularly the track "Sister".

I also liked the Patmatt post ... Badfinger .... what a great band that noone under 30 has heard of !