Your Opinion: TOP 3 Best Produced Albums Ever...
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Polpotkin
Hit'er in the shitter
Hard to say, but Dark Side of the Moon is a masterpiece. Also Aeronautics by Masterplan is one of the best modern productions IMO.
Brooks
Eyes Wide Open
Speaking as someone not in the audio production business, purely as a composer and appreciator of music... Off the top if my head...
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (that snare!!!!!)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (the budget on this record must have been astronomical)
Metallica - s/t (magical)
Honorable mentions to Porcupine Tree's In Absentia, Opeth's Blackwater Park, and, of course, Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
EDIT: wanted to add King Crimson's Power to Believe, and Mr. Bungle's s/t.... and about a thousand more, but I've got to stop
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (that snare!!!!!)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (the budget on this record must have been astronomical)
Metallica - s/t (magical)
Honorable mentions to Porcupine Tree's In Absentia, Opeth's Blackwater Park, and, of course, Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
EDIT: wanted to add King Crimson's Power to Believe, and Mr. Bungle's s/t.... and about a thousand more, but I've got to stop
This would be an impossible task if I actually sat down and thought about it, so decided to go on impulse instead....so in no real order:
Our Lady Peace - Naveed (that snare sound)
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
King Crimson - Thrak
honourary mentions to Einsturzende Neubauten's Tabula Rasa (all you need is ....Headcleaner), Daniel Lanois' own album For The Beauty Of Wynona, Anthrax's Sound of White Noise, and Living Colour's Stain.
Currently really digging the last Machine Head album and a lil' known Australian gem mixed by Andy Wallace - the self-titled Horsehead album.
Our Lady Peace - Naveed (that snare sound)
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
King Crimson - Thrak
honourary mentions to Einsturzende Neubauten's Tabula Rasa (all you need is ....Headcleaner), Daniel Lanois' own album For The Beauty Of Wynona, Anthrax's Sound of White Noise, and Living Colour's Stain.
Currently really digging the last Machine Head album and a lil' known Australian gem mixed by Andy Wallace - the self-titled Horsehead album.
wishtheend
clip the apex
I really love the over the top production, so here's my votes
Metallica - Black album
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Tool - Lateralus
Metallica - Black album
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Tool - Lateralus
Torniojaws
They call me Juha
Well, it may change throughout the years with preferences, but overall I would say my favourites are:
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Testament - The Gathering
Dagoba - What Hell Is About
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Testament - The Gathering
Dagoba - What Hell Is About
CJWall
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Brooks said:
+100000
fuck a hot mastering, that production is an absolute masterpiece, and it's perfect like it is!!
JeffTD
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Opeth's Ghost Reveries.
Chimaira's Self-titled.
Old Man's Child's Vermin.
That's just over overall constency and clarity I'd say.
Chimaira's Self-titled.
Old Man's Child's Vermin.
That's just over overall constency and clarity I'd say.
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Entombed - To ride, shoot straight and speak the truth
Sepultura - Roots
God Forbid - Constitution of Treason (or whatever its called)
To be honest if I thought about it for long enough that would be different, but off the top of my head at the moment thats what I think.
Sepultura - Roots
God Forbid - Constitution of Treason (or whatever its called)
To be honest if I thought about it for long enough that would be different, but off the top of my head at the moment thats what I think.
Liam Thompson
Lord of the Strings
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Metallica - Metallica
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Not the most "metal" list though.....
Ones that just missed out would be
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Pantera - Far Boyound Driven
Skid Row - Skid Row
Extreme - Pornograffiti
Metallica - Metallica
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Not the most "metal" list though.....
Ones that just missed out would be
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Pantera - Far Boyound Driven
Skid Row - Skid Row
Extreme - Pornograffiti
guitarguru777
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Pantera - Far Beyond Driven (That guitar !! and SNARE !!!)
Beatles - The White Album - amazing what you can do with a 4 track
Nine Inch Nails - Fragile
Honorable Mention
Carcass - Heartwork (the guitar tone alone should win an award)
Metallica - The Black Album
Pink Floyd - Just about evey album
Van Halen - VH1 (guitar tone)
Beatles - The White Album - amazing what you can do with a 4 track
Nine Inch Nails - Fragile
Honorable Mention
Carcass - Heartwork (the guitar tone alone should win an award)
Metallica - The Black Album
Pink Floyd - Just about evey album
Van Halen - VH1 (guitar tone)
MKS
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It's so hard to come up with the top 3. These 4 come to mind but I'm not casting them into stone:
Overkill Horrorscope: Nothing sounded that good when it came out.
Chimaira Self Titled: Perhaps Colin should get a lot of the credit on that.
Dream Theater Train of Thought: Love the drums and guitar production
Coheed and Cambria (Last release- long title): Amazing texture and clarity.
Overkill Horrorscope: Nothing sounded that good when it came out.
Chimaira Self Titled: Perhaps Colin should get a lot of the credit on that.
Dream Theater Train of Thought: Love the drums and guitar production
Coheed and Cambria (Last release- long title): Amazing texture and clarity.
guitarguru777
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MKS said:
Yea .. and its their only GREAT sounding album, The others are OK its amazing what Terry Date can do with guitars and drums. Hes the only guy i know can get an AMAZING Solid State tone to tape (Dime)
loomis103
WoW Blows
Coheed And Cambria-Good Apollo Im Burning Star IV, Volume I:From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness. I love the guitar and drum sounds. Amazing atmosphere.
Dream Theater-Train of Thought, Great snare sound, guitars are super heavy but they never lose clarity.
Tool-10,000 Days, Everything sounds awesome.
Dream Theater-Train of Thought, Great snare sound, guitars are super heavy but they never lose clarity.
Tool-10,000 Days, Everything sounds awesome.
Sweetnothing
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Of course this is a personal opinion, but most of them aren't metal...
Chris Isaak - Forever blue, really intimate sounding, really moody and full sounding.
Curve - Come Clean, Alan Moulder did it again to me, sounds really desperate.
Another Vote for Dark Side of the Moon.
Chris Isaak - Forever blue, really intimate sounding, really moody and full sounding.
Curve - Come Clean, Alan Moulder did it again to me, sounds really desperate.
Another Vote for Dark Side of the Moon.
Matt Crooks
www.fools-game.com
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
For Metal...
Metallica - s/t, it set the bench mark
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind, still sounds great today, and the songs are nearly perfect (if only Killers had this production!)
Dream Theater - Awake, the sound is *huge*
Other great sounding albums....
Rush - Moving Pictures
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Peter Gabriel - So
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's
For Metal...
Metallica - s/t, it set the bench mark
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind, still sounds great today, and the songs are nearly perfect (if only Killers had this production!)
Dream Theater - Awake, the sound is *huge*
Other great sounding albums....
Rush - Moving Pictures
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Peter Gabriel - So
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, being a huge innovation in terms of actual techniques (if there were ONE album every decade that tried as much new stuff as this album, we would have found a way to bring instant sexual gratification to the listener just with the push of one button)
Devin Townsend - Terria (everything that could possibly be there is there, nothing that doesn't need to be there isn't, and the techniques are not only amazing in and of themselves but also some of the best examples I could find of how to suit the music)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (I couldn't find a better representation of any band out there than Blackwater Park - no way to improve it, period)
Honorable mentions go to Cynic - Focus (the remaster), everything by Frank Zappa (if he had been a painter, he would have done with jigsaw puzzles and inflatable toys what Michelangelo did with ceilings), and Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.
Jeff
Devin Townsend - Terria (everything that could possibly be there is there, nothing that doesn't need to be there isn't, and the techniques are not only amazing in and of themselves but also some of the best examples I could find of how to suit the music)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (I couldn't find a better representation of any band out there than Blackwater Park - no way to improve it, period)
Honorable mentions go to Cynic - Focus (the remaster), everything by Frank Zappa (if he had been a painter, he would have done with jigsaw puzzles and inflatable toys what Michelangelo did with ceilings), and Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.
Jeff
