What is your best recorded standard CD?

[the record spot]

Several, but of late, just about anything by the Dead Can Dance is worth hearing. Magnificent recording / production quality.

Apart from their last one for sound quality, otherwise I would agree, same for Lisa Gerrard who I mention above.

The new live one? In Concert? Thought it was rather good!

 

[DocG]

Several, but of late, just about anything by the Dead Can Dance is worth hearing. Magnificent recording / production quality.

Apart from their last one for sound quality, otherwise I would agree, same for Lisa Gerrard who I mention above.

The new live one? In Concert? Thought it was rather good!

it's great to my ears. The audience is very well captured and mingled in the recording too.

 

[ESLee]

On my system most Fleetwood Mac. Some SRV or Peter Green does the trick too.

Saying that, I think Portishead Dummy is wonderfully produced and their live in New York album is outstanding.

 

[DocG]

I also like Angus & Julia Stone. Listening to 'A Book Like This' at the moment. As to Julia's voice: you love or hate it, nothing in between!

For blues lovers: try Hans Theessink. He recorded several albums without artificial sound effects, just the real room acoustics. 'Slow Train' was recorded in a house in Styria (with 3 singers from Ladysmith Black Mambazo as background choir - very Graceland from time to time), and 'Bridges' in an old church in Tuscany. Sounds very natural indeed.

 

[the record spot]

it's great to my ears. The audience is very well captured and mingled in the recording too.

Yes, agreed. Thought it sounded excellent. Am considering going to see one of their European gigs seeing as the Roundhouse show was sold out.

Incidentally, the new Caro Emerald CD - The Shocking Miss Emerald - is very good as well. Nice sound to it.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Blood Money - Tom Waits

The Infotainment Scan - The Fall

Gaucho - Steely Dan

Vauxhall & I - Moz

In On The Killtaker - Fugazi

 

[Macspur]

I also like Angus & Julia Stone. Listening to 'A Book Like This' at the moment. As to Julia's voice: you love or hate it, nothing in between!

For blues lovers: try Hans Theessink. He recorded several albums without artificial sound effects, just the real room acoustics. 'Slow Train' was recorded in a house in Styria (with 3 singers from Ladysmith Black Mambazo as background choir - very Graceland from time to time), and 'Bridges' in an old church in Tuscany. Sounds very natural indeed.

Know what you mean about Julia Stone... been tempted by that album for a while.

Received today Over Land and Sea by Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk... not available on Spotify though, superbly well produced CD.

Mac

 

[Alantiggger]

Simple Minds before they became all comercial had a quite brilliant early album... 'Celebration'. (1982 Virgin Records Ltd)

It's an amazing sounding CD so loud and open sounding ( mega clear, I mean) ... it's wow ! :rant:

 

[MajorFubar]

the new Caro Emerald CD - The Shocking Miss Emerald - is very good as well. Nice sound to it.

Sore subject with me. I pre-ordered it on Amazon literally weeks and weeks ago and sure enough over the last weekend I got an email from Amazon saying it had been dispatched with an expected delivery date of.....13 May. What? 13 May? For chrisake is someone hand delivering it on a pony? Nor is she available on UK spotify for some reason. And then they wonder why illegal downloads (in general) are rife...

 

[tonky]

I'm with you GMK - Damian Rice O is suberb both musically and as a recording. Also, in the same league, is Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

Tonky

 

[BigH]

Several, but of late, just about anything by the Dead Can Dance is worth hearing. Magnificent recording / production quality.

Apart from their last one for sound quality, otherwise I would agree, same for Lisa Gerrard who I mention above.

The new live one? In Concert? Thought it was rather good!

No I meant the studio album Anastasis.

 

[BigH]

My favourites:

- Any Dire Straits albums. Wonderfully produced. Private investigations is a nigh impossible track to get "right", so it's used as my main demo for new equipment

- Seal: Seal aka Seal II

- Damien Rice: O - On a good system the production value and levels of intimacy are breaktaking

- Michael Buble: Self titled album and also "It's Time". Excellent big band stuff in the days before he became a smug t**t

- Pink Floyd: The Wall

Agree with the DS part. Damien Rice O is pretty compressed and on some systems the bass is boomy.

Depends which pressing you get, some of the remasters are more compressed - http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/index.php?search_artist=&search_album=love+over+gold

I try to get original 80's CDs when I can; they are usually better recorded and mostly cheaper although some of the early Dire Straits CD's can fetch quite a bit.

Yes agree about Dire Straits the the 80s cds have more DR than the 90s ones.

 

[DocG]

Received today Over Land and Sea by Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk... not available on Spotify though, superbly well produced CD.

Mac

Hi Mac,

Don't know them. What kind of music is it?

 

[BigH]

If you like Damien Rice you may want to check out Stephen Fretwell - Magpie.

 

[BigH]

Some more good ones: Blue Nile - Hats, Steely Dan - Aja and Mary Black - No Frontiers.

 

[Macspur]

Received today Over Land and Sea by Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk... not available on Spotify though, superbly well produced CD.

Mac

Hi Mac,

Don't know them. What kind of music is it?

I suppose it would be classed as folk/pop... here's a ling to a review and

full length track off the album

http://inyourspeakers.com/content/review/231-lauren-mann-and-fairly-odd-folk-over-land-and-sea-04012013

and mp3 samples can be heard through Amazon.

Mac

 

[BigH]

Received today Over Land and Sea by Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk... not available on Spotify though, superbly well produced CD.

Mac

Hi Mac,

Don't know them. What kind of music is it?

I suppose it would be classed as folk/pop... here's a ling to a review and

full length track off the album

http://inyourspeakers.com/content/review/231-lauren-mann-and-fairly-odd-folk-over-land-and-sea-04012013

and mp3 samples can be heard through Amazon.

Mac

Their other album is on spotify as well.

 

[Macspur]

Received today Over Land and Sea by Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk... not available on Spotify though, superbly well produced CD.

Mac

Hi Mac,

Don't know them. What kind of music is it?

I suppose it would be classed as folk/pop... here's a ling to a review and

full length track off the album

http://inyourspeakers.com/content/review/231-lauren-mann-and-fairly-odd-folk-over-land-and-sea-04012013

and mp3 samples can be heard through Amazon.

Mac

Their other album is on spotify as well.

Yes, Stories from Home... not quite as good imo though.

Mac

 

[ayjaycee]

I agree entirely with one of the first posters (BigH) about Aja by Steely Dan and the two Pink Floyd albums. Indeed, Aja would probably sound superior if it was cut into a wax coated cylinder - then again, I'm biased as it is my favourite album of all time. I would also chuck in the Columbia Jazz Contemporary Masters issue of The Elegant Gypsy by Al di Meola as another high quality CD.

 

[Big Chris]

Devin Townsend - Terria

Opeth - Ghost Reveries.

Most Porcupine Tree/ Steven Wilson stuff sounds great, P.T's 'The Incident' sounds excellent.

Metallica - Metallica ('The Black Album')

Anathema - Weather Systems. Sounds great but can be a bit bass heavy

 

[hooflungdung]

here's my tuppence worth

Level 42- Level 42

Robert Plant- Fate of nations

George Benson- Breezin

Anything recorded by Lonnie Liston Smith.

& how about songs in the key of life - stevie wonder

Strangely enough all the above are 20th century original masters

Cheers

 

[BigH]

A few more I forgot to mention:

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds.

Supertramp - most try Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America.

Bob Marley - Exodus (get the Tuff Gong issue).

Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi, maybe not the greatest recording but not bad by todays standards.

 

[the record spot]

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds.

Supertramp - most try Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America.

Which ones? Pet Sounds has tons of masterings - I like Joe Gastwirt's Stereo/Mono release, but there's others out there.

Supertramp, the original A&M discs are very good. Not heard the remasters but seeing as I have a pathological dislike of them by and large....!

 

[the record spot]

Apart from their last one for sound quality...Anastasis.

Thought it was excellent too. Very hard to fault their canon. One band that pays a lot of attention to detail with their work. Very refreshing.

 

[doctorrock]

My personal favourite for sound quality is Radiohead - In Rainbows