Good Sounding Albums

These are a few albums I think are well-mixed and produced.

In no particular order:

Steely Dan - Aja
Live - Throwing Copper
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms and Love Over Gold
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rush - Power Windows
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Journey - Escape and Raised on Radio
The Police - Synchronicity
Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Queensryche - Empire

These immediately come to mind. I thought it would be interesting to see what others have to say on this subject.

Lots of Pink Floyd, Dark side of the Moon, Wish you were
here and the Wall would be my favorites;
Paul Simon-Graceland
Radiohead- OK Computer, The Bends
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King-Gold version
SUpertramp-Crisis what crisis
Alan Parson- I Robot
Steely Dan-all
Queen- A Night at the opera
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours

The first few that come to mind, would have to be:
Pantera's Far Beyond Driven-Cowboys From Hell
Pink Floyd's The Wall-Dark Side Of The Moon
Anthrax's Persistence Of Time
Queensryche's Empire
A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms
Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction
Iron Maiden's Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Boston's first two albums
Rush's Counterparts
Dream Theater's Images And Words
Yes's 90125
Always have been impressed with the way Terry Date (Pantera)produces and mixes his work.

Dire Staits: "Brothers In Arms"
—One of the first non-classical digital recordings (1985), and well-done.

K.D Lang: "Ingenue"
—Great vocals, percussion, bass...

Wynton Marsalis: "Standard Time Vol. I"
—Natural-sounding jazz trio; no gimmicks.

"After Hours" on the TELARC label
—Jazz trio (Previn/Pass/Brown) recorded in the natural acoustic
of an empty auditorium. A testament to minimalist recording techniques.

Simply Red: "Picture Book" (Heaven, Money's Too
Tight [To Mention], Holding Back The Years)
—Great vocals especially.

James Taylor: (various albums)
—Puts out a quality product; very natural-sounding vocals and guitar.

GRP recording label: (various artists)
—The "TELARC" of jazz recording labels. Audiophile-quality; deep
bass; wide dynamic range.

Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory sounds like crap! Great songs, terrible recording!

Collective Soul - Collective Soul (2nd album)

Sounds great! Noise free recordings, good mixes on the tracks and over-all just a real nice album. Pretty much the same goes for all the later albums from them too. Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid is not so great but it was their debut album and probably didn't get much attention.

One to add to the list:

Nirvana- Nevermind.

A very polished recording, much more so than the lo-fi, gritty follow up, In Utereo.

Cheers,
Russ

Good recordings eh...

Loreena McKennit - Book of Secrets
Diana Krall - Live in Paris
India Arie - Acoustical Soul

Some that are decent, yet not "high fi" would be

Eric Clapton - un-plugged
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Big Band Music - From the War Years
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Toadies - - Rubberneck
Santana - Best of Santana

Dave Mattews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Tool - Lateralus (HDCD)
Faith No More - Angel Dust, We Care A Lot (best of, HDCD)
Tomahawk - Tomahawk

I can't believe someone said APC - Mer De Noms! That album is horridly bright and just.... just.... ick (IMHO). Good music though. Hopefully their second album coming out this year will be better. Maybe they'll get Botrill in the sdutio this time.

Santana - Best of Santana

Maybe not the original but the digitally remastered one is pretty clean.

In no particular order:

INXS: “Kick” – has a snap and palpable sparkle to it, yet packs a punch as well

Rickie Lee Jones: “Rickie Lee Jones” - crisp and clean vinyl (can’t speak to the CD)

Robbie Robertson: “Storyville” – lush and warm

Michael Jackson: “Bad” – special sound of “Acusonic Recording Process D” transcends the material

Seal: Seal – rich, round and full

Pachelbel’s Canon (RCA Red Seal/ Erato – RCD1-5468) – delicate as butterfly wings; absolutely gorgeous

Dave Brubeck: Time Out – astonishingly good remaster of this 1960’s (?) classic; amazingly detailed

Peter Gabriel - So is pretty well done, too.