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Old 21-07-2016, 01:00
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just wondered if you have encountered any song that you love despite the flaws in their production -- recording, style mastering and mixing issues?
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Old 21-07-2016, 01:09
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You Win Again by Bee Gees, their four week long No1 from 1987. Nice song, dreadful production I always felt.

Like many songs from the late 80's afflicted with poor production. Surprised the Bee Gees fell into the same trap. Yet got a massive comeback chart topper with it.
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Old 21-07-2016, 05:17
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I think Ariana Grande's My Everything is poorly produced. Dangerous Woman seems streets ahead in terms of production.
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Old 21-07-2016, 06:03
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Nelly Furtado's most recent album from 2012. The songs were good, but Nelly sounded like she had a cold and had very pithy, thin vocals on a lot of the tracks. I've always wondered if that's why it underperformed.

Compare Try (2003) or All Good Things (2007) with Spirit Indestructible (2012). A shame, because the sound/style of her new music was very fresh, just let down by how it was handled.
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Old 21-07-2016, 08:45
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It seems to be a controversial opinion, but I can never listen to Dog Man Star by Suede due to why I hear as its appallingly dated production style. I realise that there are many who almost worship it, but I could never get into it, even when it came out.

Peter Townshend ruined a few albums for other people by attempting to produce them when he was deaf.

Robert Smith hasn't exactly done the group any favours with his production of some of The Cure's albums.

Several of early The Beatles albums had bafflingly inept stereo mixes inflicted upon them.
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Old 21-07-2016, 10:12
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It seems to be a controversial opinion, but I can never listen to Dog Man Star by Suede due to why I hear as its appallingly dated production style. I realise that there are many who almost worship it, but I could never get into it, even when it came out.

Peter Townshend ruined a few albums for other people by attempting to produce them when he was deaf.

Robert Smith hasn't exactly done the group any favours with his production of some of The Cure's albums.

Several of early The Beatles albums had bafflingly inept stereo mixes inflicted upon them.
Incredibly, I saw this thread and was about to come in and post the album "His and Hers" by Pulp, which was produced by the same guy around the same time and basically ruined songs like "She's a Lady" which sounded majestic, throbbing disco records live.

Was it Ed Buller? He drowned both albums in a load of reverby type sounds which turned them to sludge, and I completely agree about Dog Man Star though it still has magnificent moments.
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Old 21-07-2016, 10:24
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I think Adele's studio version of Someone Like You is poor. Her vocals are all over the place. Especially when she sings the line "don't forget me, i beg, i remember you said". It sounds like an unfinished demo. It's not hard to see why more people downloaded the live version than the album version at the time of the release.
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Old 21-07-2016, 10:36
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Most of Kate Bush's Director's Cut sounds like it was recorded through a sock.
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Old 21-07-2016, 11:05
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Kyuss- 50 Million Year Trip
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Alice in Chains- Man in the Box
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Old 21-07-2016, 11:21
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Heavy Metal Lover - Lady Gaga.

Love the song, but the volume is lower than the rest of the album and you have to crank it up to the max volume just to hear it properly. I think it was a late addition to Born This Way so that might explain it, but it's still pretty shoddy mastering.
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Old 21-07-2016, 11:26
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Demo Castellon's mixing and mastering on Madonna's last couple of album's have been terrible...especially on "Rebel Heart". I really hope she ditches him when she decides to make a new album. He's awful.
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Old 21-07-2016, 18:29
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Didn't Paul McCartney re-release Let it Be a while back without Phil Spector's production?
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Old 21-07-2016, 19:10
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I can't say I'm a great fan of Chas Chandler's production of the first two Jimi Hendrix albums. They had a few novel sounds, but overall the sound was dead flat and tinny.
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Old 21-07-2016, 19:26
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'The South Bronx' by BDP is a classic golden age Hip Hop song that was part of the 'the bridge wars' (a series of diss records between BDP and Juice crew) it has been sampled a lot probably most famously on J-Lo - jenny from the block.
It's held in high regard but the recording is terrible, hissy and it was done in one take in someones bedroom it wasn't mixed properly..and if you listen carefully you can actually hear voices laughing and talking in the background. I think part of its charm is that its so gritty and homemade..But it was a hit and launched KRS-One's career.
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