Best Bat out of Hell recording


Fellow audiogoners...I have orig domestic and import Lps and Cds of BOOHell and would welcome any input...I have been dissapointed by these...weak bass, flat soundstage,etc...any suggestions?
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Showing 1 response by martykl

It's a mess. My understanding is that "BOOH" was a really low budget recording session that Todd Rundgren (a top three all-time rock/pop musician, in my book) financed out of his own pocket after every record label in town passed on it. I'm not certain, but I think that it may have been recorded at Rundgren's Bearsville Studio, the birthplace of many of the worst sounding records in my collection. Rundgren's a hero of mine, but when he screws up the sound of a record, he usually does so royally. Unfortunately, "BOOH" is a good example of that.

BTW, the history of the record is interesting: Although it may be an apocryphal tale, Clive Davis reportedly called it the single worst record he'd ever heard.