Best Produced & Engineered Album ever

I'm going to get thrown off here for this pick. Pink 'Missundazstood' sounds as good as anything I have heard on a fine sterio. It's right there for sound mix and sound quality as Queensryche's Empire, and Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction.

That's not including the fact the first 12 songs are great.

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Dr. Dre – 2001. Some of the rappers on that album were forgettable, but the instrumentals are incredible. They’re so good that an instrumental version of the album was released.
Metallica – Metallica. That album sounds MASSIVE. It completely changed the way rock albums sounded; everybody wanted those massive layered guitar parts and big low end.
Madonna – The Immaculate Collection. Excellent dance mixes carefully arranged to fit the running time of one CD. And it’s one of the few albums recorded with Q Sound so the sounds are coming from all over the place if you listen with headphones.
The Cure – Disintegration. It drags you down into Robert Smith’s emotional state and runs you through it like those slow cars on rails in the Disney World haunted mansion.
 
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IDK. I see it a bit differently. For me, the greatest examples of great engineering come from live (or live in the studio) recordings.

And the most impressive cases of that come primarily from jazz, ‘classical,’ and opera.

Check out records with names like Rudy Van Gelder and Manfred Eicher.

I get that some people get a hard-on for Aja. But to me, that’s the bad side of audiophilia. It’s no longer about the music or the room, but more about perfect isolation and obsessively collecting 180g vinyl pressings of rare birds chirping and of steam engine whistles.

(I can’t begin to comprehend how anyone could ever get a hard-on for anything done by Flock of Seagulls, but that’s a whole other story... there’s an absolute ton of great New Wave material, and yet we once again end up celebrating barely-adequate mediocrity.)
 
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I listened to this album a bunch last summer and was blown away by how good it sounded.

DSOTM of course. Almost anything by the Beatles.
 
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Flamencology said:
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IDK. I see it a bit differently. For me, the greatest examples of great engineering come from live (or live in the studio) recordings.

And the most impressive cases of that come primarily from jazz, ‘classical,’ and opera.

Check out records with names like Rudy Van Gelder and Manfred Eicher.

I get that some people get a hard-on for Aja. But to me, that’s the bad side of audiophilia. It’s no longer about the music or the room, but more about perfect isolation and obsessively collecting 180g vinyl pressings of rare birds chirping and of steam engine whistles.

(I can’t begin to comprehend how anyone could ever get a hard-on for anything done by Flock of Seagulls, but that’s a whole other story... there’s an absolute ton of great New Wave material, and yet we once again end up celebrating barely-adequate mediocrity.)
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Like this, cant be for sure but probably recording all in a room type thing



 
Honkridge said:
Hmmm

Kinda depends on what kind of vibe you are going for.

Inner Visions sounds amazing but probably isn't considered "hi fi". Aja and DSOTM are amazing too. A lot of Ray Charles sounds killer on a shitty turntable thru a single 8 inch speaker. Have you listened to Nelson Riddle and Ella lately? It will still blow you away. Was it Ken Scott who did the classic Supertramp records? Again, amazing. Many Classical records on RCA in the mid 60's have yet to be topped.
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Funny, my first thought when I saw the thread title was Innervisions. But yeah, I don't know what 'best produced and engineered' exactly 'means, but I love the production on those albums Stevie did with Margouleff and Cecil. Songs in the Key of Life also sounds terrific.
 
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