Bop 'til You Drop a "catastrophe"? I dunno, sounded pretty darn good to me. And the music is superlative, one of my all-time favorite albums.
Maybe you need to process your copy with an Intelligent Chip, Geoff? [smile]
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Motorhead - Ironfist
Jethro Tull - Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll
I have a love/hate relationship with Stevie Wonder's 70's albums; some of the stuff is miked great but almost all the albums sound veiled and a little muffled. Yet the music is AWESOME. |
not to start flames spewing but i have copies of many of the records mentioned here that sound fantastic. born to run, any record by yes, any record by zep, Derek and the Dominos, who's next, Kinks Muswell hillbillies... my copies come form Tom Port of Better Records and they cost a bloody fortune. each pressing or copy of a vinyl record can sound very different. Tom and his crew assemble many copies, often 30, 40, or more and shoot them out. he sometimes packages two records, one for side on and one for side two. Many people on Audiogon trash him without ever trying his stuff. i have collected his goods for 15 years and place a higher value on those pressings than my very expensive equipment. i have bought multiple copies (5 or 6 or more) of a record and done my own shoot outs when Tom does not pursue a certain artist or record and have had some luck with finding a good copy but i do not start with a big enough pool, so i find myself giving Tom my credit card number all too often. |
Here's some classic rock records that I feel have poor or inconsistent sound despite the great music within.
Ted Nugent-'Double Live Gonzo!'
Aerosmith-'Rocks'
Kiss-'Hotter than Hell'
Blue Öyster Cult-'Blue Öyster Cult'
Deep Purple-'In Rock' |
Bop Til You Drop. What a catastrophe. |
Forgot about Raw power and Husker du...Kinks Muswell hillbillies up there as well...although according to legend that was deliberately recorded in a vintage low fi manner. |
Ebm, It's indeed very important, but there are even more important also here! |
iggy's raw power (david bowie) is a famously botched production, as is marshall crenshaw's field day (steve lillywhite). i'd throw in sst-era husker du (really great songs terribly recorded); i've also been surprised at how bad-sounding some of the smiths records were. not to be unduly controversial, but nevermind never sounded quite right to me, either--its super-clean, polished sheen saps the oomph you feel on in utero. |
Wow how important is the thread!! |
Add: Sabbath vol 4 and Who's next...actually have an older Castle remaster of Sabbath debut that sounds phenomenal...picked up mint copy of machine head on LP...sounds better than I recall. |
Led Zeppelin LPs are of a poor sound quality -- agree, but they're just average on performances i.e. almost solid C except probably few songs out of all. The fact of gazillion records sold and popularity unfortunately does not bite me as I only value music and musicians which is only partially there. |
All the LED ZEPPLIN records! |
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Todd's "Healer" and "A Cappella" ain't bad... |
Derek and the Dominos, despite Tom Dowd. |
agree with the rundgren comment, great music live, but the albums just dont come close to the experience |
I wish relayer by yes was better. |
Utopia - Adventures in Utopia
Bright, thin and shrill but with great tunes. In fact, most things Rundgren mixed/mastered himself sound like crap. |
Just about anything on Atlantic between 1971 - 1977. Especially Zep 4 and ELP Works Vol 1. |
I was just listening to machine head. It ain't bad at all. Bat out of hell is two dimensional and lacking dynamics but ok otherwise. |
