Albums with *Amazing Production* ... and that's all

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You know when you hear the opening bars of an album, and it's just sonically lush and wonderful and then all of the sudden the vocals come in, and there's just no "there" there in terms of the songs.

I feel this way about Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, and from what I've heard online of the new Beck album, I have a feeling it'll be another one like that.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean like the Cars?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps. I don't know anything except the hits.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not familiar with that album.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone will say Loveless. But not me.

I don't listen to bad music.

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

guided by voices to thread

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the Alan Parsons Project thread?

― Austin (Austin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

wr2 wilco, why stop w/ yankee foxtrot hotel? they've sounded immaculate since summerteeth, even though they're still a snoozefest.

(i guess you can add the billy bragg-thing too, but i kinda like that one. prob. more b/c of mr. bragg [god help me] than wilco.)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say the same about A Ghost is Born, but I like "Muzzle of Bees".

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The entirety of these two albums, which I have renamed to protect the innocent: "Ride - Goes Nowhere" and "Secret Machines - Now Here is Nowhere and Should Stay Here Where No One Can Hear It."

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica - St Anger (No-one said that 'amazing' had to equal 'good'!)

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Blueberry Fucking Boat.

Nah, just kidding. This is still growing on me. Slowly.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Flaming Lips
Mercury Rev
Super Furry Animals

*sorry*

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Deloused In The Comatorium.

I'm sorry, I really *wanted* to like this album, but it bored me to tears.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ride - Goes Nowhere"

Time for a beating. But a gentle one.

Simple Minds's Trevor Horn-produced Street Fighting Years is the most thorough hi-fi demo disc ever created. There is no other reason for its existence.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica - St Anger (No-one said that 'amazing' had to equal 'good'!)

Actually I think the first post does imply that. It doesn't say anything about snare drums sounding like someone throwing golfballs at sheetmetal.

Snappy, someday your doorbell is gonna ring, and it's gonna be me and Dave Fridmann dressed as FedEx guys delivering a case of whoopass from Stephen Drozd.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

THERE. WILL. BE. NO. GENTLE. BEATINGS. FOR. DERIDING. RIDE. ONLY. CRAZED. MERCILESS. ONES. FEATURING. LOTS. OF. SWEAR-WORDS. AND. GRUNTING.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Spiritualized's career to thread. But I mean this in a good way.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Parliament's first album has the best drum sound I have ever heard, but the album meanders is only so-so overall.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I recently saw an exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art that featured an lp an artist had made where he painstakingly recreated six tracks of music. One of the tracks was Grace Jones's disco version of La Vie En Rose (the Tom Moulton mix). The record was playing in the gallery, and everyone was grooving to the Grace Jones track. Moulton is a genius. Anyway, when I got home, I dragged out my copy of Grace's Portfolio lp and gave it a whirl to compare. Guess what: Grace Jones song - Grace Jones vocal = art.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess Body Language, but I have finally come to terms with the fact that I love it because of this (as opposed to in spite of it, possibly)

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

High Llamas, "Hawaii."

― Derek Krissoff (Derek), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This category was MADE for Lenny Kravitz.

On my less charitable days, I'm inclined to cite Sgt. Pepper's, but then I remember that I'm a Beatles fan and that won't do. And anyways, it's not impossible to love (or at least like) a recording for its production and nothing else. (Eg. Mike Oldfield, Todd Rundgren, Mellow Gold, etc.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, sorry, man, but Ride never did it for me. But, to be honest, by the time I finally heard it, I was not a little "shoegazed" out. I'd owned and loved Souvlaki and Psychocandy for a while-- but who really needs any other record besides Loveless, anyway?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, coming across Loveless first and then seeking out other shoegazer, I can certainly say I was initially disappointed every single time. But I grew to enjoy Ride and Slowdive in their own way. Really can't say I'm a fan of Psychocandy though. It's a bit painful on the ears, no?

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Body Language. The production IS the best part though.

A friend lent me Death Cab for Cutie's last album just to listen to the production. I don't really like the music, but there are a lot of cool little production tricks in there and it sounds great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - Good lord no. It's kinda sweet, that album. :-)

I freely agree about Loveless being The One, of course -- Spencer has always made a good case as to why it rocks where so much other 'gaze does not. Me, I just like blissing out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

TIMBALAND AND MAGOO TO THREAD!!!!!!!!!!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Courtney Love's career from "Live Through This" onward.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Tears For Fears: The Seeds Of Love

Plus, Kari Bremnes to thread already!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

flaming lips - the soft bulletin (lock thread)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

"The Soft Bulletin" doesn't have amazing production at all. The songs are good though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Anything produced by Timbaland or Neptunes.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Anything produced by Timbaland or Neptunes.

you're actually saying their production is amazing 'musically' but the people they work for do not have enough personality or strong enough voices or actual good songs to sing over them??

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

There's a lot of really deranged conceptions of "good production" in here. Blueberry Boat? ffs. That album blows chunks on every level. If it was a whale it would make HUGE amounts of perfume stuff.

x-post - Neptunes if Pharrel is fronting the tune, god yes.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

you never answered your own 'what makes good production' thread did you?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, becuase I was asking other people. It wasn't rhetorical.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

you're actually saying their production is amazing 'musically' but the people they work for do not have enough personality or strong enough voices or actual good songs to sing over them??

Sonically, not musically.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 8 September 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

dangelo - voodoo

― tigertiger (tigertiger), Friday, 8 September 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

hrm... voodoo could use a lot of editing (like, lopping off two minutes per song), but i don't think it's only selling point is the production...

― john, a resident of chicago. (john s), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Low: Trust

― held tony (held tony), Friday, 8 September 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

FUCKS SAKE NICK

― blueski, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

Every Gino Vannelli recording I've heard is like this.

― Dan Peterson, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

NOT MY FAULT

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

THERE. WILL. BE. NO. GENTLE. BEATINGS. FOR. DERIDING. RIDE. ONLY. CRAZED. MERCILESS. ONES. FEATURING. LOTS. OF. SWEAR-WORDS. AND. GRUNTING

So long as said swearing/grunting is loud enough to render that Ride album inaudible, I have no problem with this.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Daniel Lanois - Shine

― abanana, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Joe Budden's self-titled comes to mind.

― makeitpop, Sunday, 23 November 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

dont know about 'thats all' but blurs 13 album is just amazing from a production POV.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 23 November 2008 19:06 (seventeen years ago)

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