Your top 5 recordings for sound quality

[Mike]

A few years ago before I hit this site on a regular basis I would have said the usual audition demo stuff from Mofi, DCC or some of the more specialist recording labels but although it's good sounding stuff it's also kinda' boring for me. I agree it's a shame some stuff just sounds plain horrible which does put me off sometimes but then I hear it on the radio or in the car and you get past the sound and think yeah it's ok.

We did a similar thread a while ago which is where most of the list below came from with a few more thrown in, whilst not 'audiophile' I personally would rate these for sound 7+ out of 10.

Red House Painters – Ocean Beach, really spacious recording
Robert Rice – 7 Veils, top to bottom huge soundstage
Elysian Fields – Bleed Your Cedar
Dada - Puzzle, great pop rock from 92' and I've just spotted they have remastered it
Dzihan & Kamien – Gran Riserva if you fancy a bit of electronica with some deep bass
Gordon Goodwin – XXL
Whiskeytown -
Grandaddy – Sumday great chugging basslines
The Glands – The Glands, overlooked gem
Blue Man Group – Complex
Jack Johnson – On and On
Notwist - Neon Golden
Peter Gabriel - just about all the remasters
Greg Brown - Further In
Sonia Dada - Lay Down and Love It Live
Damien Rice – O
Govt Mule - Dose
Tosca - Suzuki In Dub, more electronica in the style of Kruder and Dorfmeister
Beck - Sea Change

Cheers
Mike

[-Jar-]

Red House Painters – Ocean Beach, really spacious recording

Elysian Fields – Bleed Your Cedar

Cheers
Mike

OCEAN BEACH is nice, but I think I like SONGS FOR A BLUE GUITAR better. It sounds more natural to me, more relaxed. I think the vocals on OCEAN BEACH are mixed too loud.

and.. BLEED YOUR CEDAR.. what can you say? mmmmmmmmmmm

-jar