What is your best recorded standard CD?

[coolaboola]

Michael Jackson's bad gets my vote.Spike lee documentry on how it was recorded worth a look.Also recomend radioheads recordings especially, in rainbows,

previously mentioned

 

[doctorrock]

Another good quality (IMHO) is the original release of We Can't Dance by Genesis in 1991, especially the last song Fading Lights

 

[BigH]

I don't have any but Peter Gabriel albums and meant to be well produced.

Also Alan Parsons Project.

 

[CnoEvil]

Jacques Loussier on Telarc

Yello.............Essential Yello

Ott

Gorillaz

Rodrigo y Gabriella

 

[GMK]

My personal favourite for sound quality is Radiohead - In Rainbows

Good shout, I'd completely forgotten about that

 

[DocG]

For all you bass fiends: 'Thunder' by S.M.V.

S.M.V. are Stanley Clarcke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten. If the names don't ring a bell, move on... nothing to be seen here!

If you know these gents, have a listen; you won't be disappointed!

 

[VinylRush]

Tracey Chapman's debut album is excellent.

 

[Sorreltiger]

Yes - I can confirm that the latest Peter Gabriel, 'New Blood', sounds sensational.

 

[john dolan]

The Wallin Jennys Bright Morning and 40 Days CDs both sound very good.

 

[Macspur]

The Wallin Jennys Bright Morning and 40 Days CDs both sound very good.

40 days- one of my favourites... if you like the Jennys you might like The Staves

"Dead and born and grown"

Mac

 

[unhalfbricking]

An honourable mention for 'The Yes album' (1971) by Yes. The album's producion is commendably lean with just the right amount of prominence given to each of the featured instruments - Kaye's nicely-judged piano and organ parts and sparing use of synth, alongside Howe's wonderfully versatile and technically brilliant acoustic and electric guitar work. This provides ample room for the band's rhythm section - Squire's throaty, toppy Rickenbacker 6003 bass and Bruford's vibrant, jazz-inflected drumming - to shine through. The original 1994 remaster by Joe Gastwirt is perfectly judged -- bright, open and spacious. Later Yes albums (even the hugely wonderful 'Close to the Edge') sound cluttered by comparison. Yes are a great band and this is their best-recorded album -- a testament to simplicity.

 

[BigH]

The Wallin Jennys Bright Morning and 40 Days CDs both sound very good.

+1

 

[radiorog]

just listening to Ryan Adams's love is hell vol 1+2....sounds good. Coldplays Parachutes surprised me recently.

 

[GMK]

They opened unexpectedly?

 

[CnoEvil]

They opened unexpectedly?

There were no strings attached. 😳

 

[DocG]

just listening to Ryan Adams's love is hell vol 1+2....sounds good.

Ryan Adams chooses his instruments carefully, and allways pays attention to them being recorded well. I like his 'Cold Roses' album too.

 

[Azam]

Some - not all - of my all time favorites which sound spectacular to my ears and have been used to test many hifi systems:

Mary Black - The Collection; and The Holy Ground.

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense.

Neneh Cherry - Raw Like Sushi

The Eagles - greatest hits

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms; and On Every Street

Maeve O'Boyle - All My Sins (LINN recordings)

Adele - 21

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Annie Lennox - DIVA

The B52'S - The B52's

The Beautiful South - Blue is the Colour

Chris Rea - God's Great Banana Skin

Tracy Chapman

Tom Petty - greatest hits

 

[Rethep]

Ali Farka Touré - Niafunké

Sara K - Hell or highwater

 

[BigH]

Antonio Forcione - Tears of Joy.

 

[BigH]

Sara K - Hell or highwater

Not bad but I prefer Hobo, I find Stockfisch recordings too closely miked.

 

[Covenanter]

This is brand new and I've only heard it on headphones so far but it is clear to me that this is a brilliant recording of some superb performances:

"Sogno Barocco" Anne Sophie von Otter - Naive V5286 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sogno-Barocco-Baroque-Dream-Sofie/dp/B0089N47KE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1373498233&sr=1-1&keywords=von+otter

Surely one of the greatest voices of our time, von Otter is supported here by the lovely Sandrine Piau. I suspect that the repertoire won't be appreciated by the majority on this forum but I also suspect that this recording will challenge many highly regarded equipment setups.

If you like great singing try this. It is going immediately onto my list of "auditioning" CDs.

Chris

 

[Covenanter]

This is brand new and I've only heard it on headphones so far but it is clear to me that this is a brilliant recording of some superb performances:

"Sogno Barocco" Anne Sophie von Otter - Naive V5286 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sogno-Barocco-Baroque-Dream-Sofie/dp/B0089N47KE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1373498233&sr=1-1&keywords=von+otter

Surely one of the greatest voices of our time, von Otter is supported here by the lovely Sandrine Piau. I suspect that the repertoire won't be appreciated by the majority on this forum but I also suspect that this recording will challenge many highly regarded equipment setups.

If you like great singing try this. It is going immediately onto my list of "auditioning" CDs.

Chris

 

[matt49]

This is brand new and I've only heard it on headphones so far but it is clear to me that this is a brilliant recording of some superb performances:

"Sogno Barocco" Anne Sophie von Otter - Naive V5286 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sogno-Barocco-Baroque-Dream-Sofie/dp/B0089N47KE/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1373498233&sr=1-1&keywords=von+otter

Surely one of the greatest voices of our time, von Otter is supported here by the lovely Sandrine Piau. I suspect that the repertoire won't be appreciated by the majority on this forum but I also suspect that this recording will challenge many highly regarded equipment setups.

If you like great singing try this. It is going immediately onto my list of "auditioning" CDs.

Chris

This looks excellent. I have some of her Mahler and Sibelius stuff. And I picked up your earlier recommendations of Bach, Bellini and Dowland -- all tremendous. Particularly enjoying the Bach Motets.

:cheer:

Matt

 

[Macspur]

Ian Anderson, Secret Language of Birds

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Language-Birds-Ian-Anderson/dp/B0040X8HQ2/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1373521999&sr=1-4&keywords=ian+anderson

Mac

 

[Hi-FiOutlaw]

Gene Loves Jezebel - Heavenly bodies

very well recorded/ mastered!