Certainly a very disappointing release for me was Pollinator by Blondie, their first new album in forever.
I REALLY wanted to like it but......
So compressed and vastly overblown treble, so much so that the cymbals were so hissy and tizzy I had to check my tweeters as I thought they were blown.
Another turkey would be Attention Attention by Shinedown.
Just about ok to listen to in the car but that’s it. |
All the Sonics' albums. Great Garage music (have you heard "The Witch"? Inspiration for The Ramones), but terrible recordings. |
Grand Funk's first album, at least on CD, is the worst (IMO). |
I have that one too, will check it out. Sounded great at a teen with a lousy system. |
i always though born to run sounded horrible. husker du's zen arcade is another vg recrod that was bdly recorded.
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Bruce Springsteen followed by U2....unbelievable Bruce would allow those crappy recordings although his music is stellar
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RUSH "Vapor Trails". I actually threw that CD in the trash since I could not listen to it. I knew there was good music in the CD but it was unlistenable. This disk is rather legendary for how bad the Dynamic Compression was. A little shocking considering Rush are an intelligent band.
A few years later RUSH released that album with a re-master. I ended up buying the hi-res version and it is now one of my fav RUSH releases.
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springsteen's commercial breakthroughs were produced by jon landau, who was a rock critic by training--why springsteen wanted that hollow, unnatural sound is a mystery to me, esp. since his first two records sounded good in a conventional way.
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Old Rod Stewart CDs sound horrible on a decent system.Best enjoyed on a lowfi set up.
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Probably not "the worst" but I was very disappointed in Cat Power "Sun" on vinyl. |
Leslie West - Why Dontcha CD |
Since rock has produced many thousands of recordings that are as bad as is humanly possible there is no answer to this .
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Schubert, I´m afraid there is one for sure: Kiss Alive, 1975. I´ve listened to thousands rock albums and that is the most horrible by all means.
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And Schubert has listened to them all. 🙄
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Queen Live Killers. Great music, terrible recording. |
Rod Stewart's early records are full of awesome performances, awesome songs and unbelievably lackluster production. He's always low in the mix and everything is fuzzy....yet I love the songs. Agreed on Born To Run too.
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Anything by Arcade Fire. Great live, records absolutely suck.
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Portishead's Self-Titled Second Record. I dare anybody with a good system to listen to that record without tone controls and actually enjoy it. Strident and harsh being belief, a sonic disaster.
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