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What albums from well-known bands were badly produced?
Good Albums With Bad Production
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SanguineRemedy
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What comes to mind:
Metallica's And Justice For All.. where is the bass?
The Who's Tommy... as good as that album is, what is especially noticeable are the drums, they are a little too soft. Live performance of each song turns out to be better, imo. In fact, I think The Who were a much better live band. Live at Leeds is one of the greatest of all time, if not the greatest.
Def Leppard's Hysteria. Too many layers!
Metallica's And Justice For All.. where is the bass?
The Who's Tommy... as good as that album is, what is especially noticeable are the drums, they are a little too soft. Live performance of each song turns out to be better, imo. In fact, I think The Who were a much better live band. Live at Leeds is one of the greatest of all time, if not the greatest.
Def Leppard's Hysteria. Too many layers!
Lynch
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KISS - Hotter than Hell (1974)
Great album, but it's hard to believe that they went from a pro-sounding debut album earlier in the year to a completely different studio, across the country and ended up with an album that sounds like it was recorded in a broom closet. This is always the first album that comes to mind for me when it comes to this topic.
Great album, but it's hard to believe that they went from a pro-sounding debut album earlier in the year to a completely different studio, across the country and ended up with an album that sounds like it was recorded in a broom closet. This is always the first album that comes to mind for me when it comes to this topic.
Lynch
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Unfortunately, Lars and James were acting like grade-school bullies on that one. Done intentionally for no reason other than some sort of adolescent "hazing" of Jason.
SanguineRemedy
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KISS - Hotter than Hell (1974)
Great album, but it's hard to believe that they went from a pro-sounding debut album earlier in the year to a completely different studio, across the country and ended up with an album that sounds like it was recorded in a broom closet. This is always the first album that comes to mind for me when it comes to this topic.
I always felt that would be one of my top KISS albums, at least 3 or maybe pushing 2, if the production were good.
Megadeth - So Far So Good So What has great music but god awful production.
Agreed on And Justice. In need of a long due remix/remaster that album to at least up the bass a little.
Agreed on And Justice. In need of a long due remix/remaster that album to at least up the bass a little.
Lynch
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Justice demo tape...
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Billy Joel- Cold Spring Harbor (1971)
Billy's first album is infamous for it's error in the album's mastering. The album was released with the music playing too fast and Billy's voice sounding, as he phrased it, like Alvin from the Chipmunks. Joel was able to use this error to end his contract with Family Productions and had his new label, Columbia Records pay off Family for the release.
The album was remixed by Columbia, and even though it contained a few Joel classics such as "Everybody Loves You Now" and"She's Got A Way", Billy was never happy with the album
Billy's first album is infamous for it's error in the album's mastering. The album was released with the music playing too fast and Billy's voice sounding, as he phrased it, like Alvin from the Chipmunks. Joel was able to use this error to end his contract with Family Productions and had his new label, Columbia Records pay off Family for the release.
The album was remixed by Columbia, and even though it contained a few Joel classics such as "Everybody Loves You Now" and"She's Got A Way", Billy was never happy with the album
