Yep, those dreaded mid 80's production techniques... FOTW did have several cool tunes, marred by that echo-ish production you described, BUYV, to me was just not up to par, material-wise, Stiff Upper Lip has a good warm, back to basics/live immediacy/ type of sound, but I can't honestly say, other than NYC, there is another song I like there. IMO Black Ice, production-wise and material-wise was the best album since FTATR. Just my 2 cents worth.Thing that let me down mostly about Fly and Blow are the production on each. Fly almost had a sort of echo type sound on the production especially the vocals. The drums sound like it too. Blow Up Your Video had good songs but sterile sounding production.
Yep, those dreaded mid 80's production techniques... FOTW did have several cool tunes, marred by that echo-ish production you described, BUYV, to me was just not up to par, material-wise, Stiff Upper Lip has a good warm, back to basics/live immediacy/ type of sound, but I can't honestly say, other than NYC, there is another song I like there. IMO Black Ice, production-wise and material-wise was the best album since FTATR. Just my 2 cents worth.