The best sounding (produced/mastered) tracks/albums

[StescoG66]

Digger said:

belleair302 said:

Rumors Fleetwood Mac
Hot Buttered Soul Issac Hayes
Slave to the rhythm Grace Jones
Private Dancer Tina Turner the single is an epic production played on the right system.

Yes - stunning.

Try the mix on The Compass Point sessions.. stunningly well produced.

[TorqueDirty]

God Shuffled his Feet by the Crash Test Dummies is good, track 10 - The Psychic, is amazing on a good system.

And whilst it might not be everyone's cup of tea, albums by Shpongle are usually amazing. "Are you Shpongled" is very impressive.

[AC43]

StescoG66 said:

Digger said:

belleair302 said:

Rumors Fleetwood Mac
Hot Buttered Soul Issac Hayes
Slave to the rhythm Grace Jones
Private Dancer Tina Turner the single is an epic production played on the right system.

Yes - stunning.

Try the mix on The Compass Point sessions.. stunningly well produced.

That whole album is stunningly well produced. I was listening to Pull Up to The Bumper Baby yesterday for the best bass line thread.

[Tony1963]

StescoG66 said:

Try the mix on The Compass Point sessions.. stunningly well produced.

I first bought that while on holiday in Cape Town. Driving around with the car horns sounding on Pull Up to the Bumper caught me out! A great recording, and an interesting backstory and studio.

[TorqueDirty]

Oh and Hotel California live performance on Hell Freezes Over is incredible with a top end system that includes a high quality sub. That background bass drum is immense.

And the Decemberists - The Crane Wife. Not too keen on some of the songs but tracks 1 and 9 (The Crane Wife 3 and then The Crane Wife 1&2) are pretty special.

[Tony1963]

TorqueDirty said:

Oh and Hotel California live performance on Hell Freezes Over is incredible with a top end system that includes a high quality sub. That background bass drum is immense.

After that track was used for almost every hifi demo of the 1990s, I can no longer listen to it!

[thebraketester]

TorqueDirty said:

Oh and Hotel California live performance on Hell Freezes Over is incredible with a top end system that includes a high quality sub. That background bass drum is immense.

And the Decemberists - The Crane Wife. Not too keen on some of the songs but tracks 1 and 9 (The Crane Wife 3 and then The Crane Wife 1&2) are pretty special.

Is that the mtv 94 version?

[NDA]

StescoG66 said:

Digger said:

belleair302 said:

Rumors Fleetwood Mac
Hot Buttered Soul Issac Hayes
Slave to the rhythm Grace Jones
Private Dancer Tina Turner the single is an epic production played on the right system.

Yes - stunning.

Try the mix on The Compass Point sessions.. stunningly well produced.

The Nightclubbing album is 96/24 which sounds great....

An album that always sounded great on vinyl is Sheffield Steel by Joe Cocker - there's a connect to Grace Jones because of Sly and Robbie featuring.

[Nico Adie]

belleair302 said:

License to ill Beastie Boys but this has to be turned up for it to come alive…..and I mean loud.

Nothing sounds quite like an 808 kick!

Speaking of the Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out & The Mix up always sound fantastic, very natural sounding and well recorded.

Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock by Talk Talk

Woodface by Crowded House

Tchad Blake has done a load of Binaural recordings that sound incredible through a good set of cans

Chicken Skin Music by Ry Cooder

All Shellac albums

All Radiohead albums from OK Computer onwards

Random Access Memories by Daft Punk

Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin

Extension of a Man by Donny Hathaway

Queen of the Wave by Pepe Deluxe

Edited by Nico Adie on Tuesday 21st February 11:52

[anonymous-user]

thebraketester said:

NDA said:

Bubbles by Yosi Horikawa is worth a try... it's like a speaker demo!

That is incredible.... just listened to it with my eyes closed and I swear those ping pong balls were bouncing on my desk

Blimey, that even sounds good on my laptop speakers.

[Digger]

This Rick Beato vid has many great mentions . . . nostalgic as a 50 year old.

https://youtu.be/-Mn7w-3V_nI

[NDA]

I will be at home tomorrow - quite a few more tracks to listen to.

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster is worth checking out.

[AC43]

Tony1963 said:

StescoG66 said:

Try the mix on The Compass Point sessions.. stunningly well produced.

I first bought that while on holiday in Cape Town. Driving around with the car horns sounding on Pull Up to the Bumper caught me out! A great recording, and an interesting backstory and studio.

Yeah, it's in Chris Blackwell's autobiography. Those tracks were played and recorded live. I do love a bit of proper music played by proper musicians using proper instruments in real time (albeit with a brilliant producer, sound engineer & post production).

[AC43]

NDA said:

I will be at home tomorrow - quite a few more tracks to listen to.

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster is worth checking out.

I love a bit of Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. A lot of the Blue Note albums of the day were very well recorded - Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and Cannon Ball Adderley's Somethin' Else spring to mind.

One track I've recently rediscovered is Brotherhood of Man by Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry (its the 1st track on the album Oscar Peterson +1). It sounds amazing on headphones and on my home hifi. I'm planning to get my car speakers upgraded soon and that will be an interesting test track to see how much better the new speakers are.

[geezerbutler]

Roxy Music - Avalon
Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love
The Blue Nile - Hats / A walk across the rooftops
Steely Dan - Aja
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing

Edited by geezerbutler on Thursday 23 February 08:57

[NDA]

said:

Avalon

I recall this is a Bob Ludwig mastered album - and sounds superb. Anything with Ludwig's name attached seems to sparkle.

[Diderot]

AC43 said:

StescoG66 said:

Digger said:

belleair302 said:

Rumors Fleetwood Mac
Hot Buttered Soul Issac Hayes
Slave to the rhythm Grace Jones
Private Dancer Tina Turner the single is an epic production played on the right system.

Yes - stunning.

Try the mix on The Compass Point sessions.. stunningly well produced.

That whole album is stunningly well produced. I was listening to Pull Up to The Bumper Baby yesterday for the best bass line thread.

Indeed. Brilliant.



Have a listen to The Da Vinci Code soundtrack.

[RichA35]

I enjoy the following on a decent set of headphones.

Art Blakey - Moaning (remastered)
Rainbow Kitten Surprise - It’s called freefall
Fine Young Cannibals - She drives me crazy
The Specials - Ghost Town
Remi Wolf - Liz

[808 Estate]

Pink Floyd - Pulse.

[TorqueDirty]

Deranged Rover said:

These should get you going...

Chris Jones - No Sanctuary

Jennifer Warnes - Bird on a Wire (in fact, pretty much all of her "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "The Hunter" albums!)

Donald Fagen - Morph The Cat

Marian Hill - Differently

Malia & Boris Blank - Raising Venus

Loreena McKennitt - Gates of Istanbul

Stimela (The Coal Train) - Hugh Masekela

Aaron Neville - Everybody plays the fool

Nickel Creek - Reasons Why

Simply Red - Sad Old Red

Jazzanova - Takes you Back (Unexpected Dub)

Cathy Dennis - Too many walls (acapella version)

Tori Amos - Pretty Good Year

This man knows of what he speaks! I urge you to check out this selection.

I have just run through the entire list and they are all superb - and I'm a picky sod.