Albums with bad production

ITT: Albums you love but have terrible production

hate to say it but it was remastered for a reason

This would be a 10/10 without the loudness war. Still a 9-9.5 though.

Every Tool album has shit production, especially Lateralus. This just happens to be my favorite though.

It's bad but its good

>the graininess of the guitar and drums
Stranded had its issues but holy shit Siren has bad production

Half of the albums produced by that faggot hack Albini.

Literally any 80s black metal album, but that's part of the appeal

>Every Tool album has shit production, especially Lateralus
wtf Lateralis sounds amazing

he has a signature sound that is great for some artists and shit for others

Did it need to be compressed like a can of smashed assholes?

Really? What don't you like about the production? I think Lateralus sounds quite good.

The production on this is really amateurish

This really bothers me at points. For the most part it's fine but at certain times it's so fucking awful. Honestly detracts from my enjoyment of the album a little.

i want to like this album, but the screechiness of it makes it literally unlistenable for me, drives me up the fucking wall

nothing can top this legendary failure, I still really like this album but it's so frustrating to listen to because the production is garbage

Well there's only three songs with that noisiness. You could just skip those

i could but knowing that those songs are so irritating ruins the whole experience. i pray for a remaster someday

Holy Mountain by Sleep. it just sounds really weak compared to other albums in the genre, or even compared to Dopesmoker. i still really like the album, but it could use some extra heaviness

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Orchid too. The drums especially sound like shit.

That one guy the third post down from the OP is a wrong idiot

Objectively it's pretty bad, the guitars are really brittle and thin, the drums are shallow and tingy. But I actually like the way it sounds

It's so fucking quiet.

>we will never hear the true version of deathcon

>Remember when Metallica just didn't have a bass player at all?
>Yeah, that was weird.

This

also the newish My Bloody Valentine album. I know "that's the point" but it was still terrible

>lofi = bad

I love the production on Undertow. The guitars sound unique and distinct, the drums are appropriately muddy but still clear, and the bass stands out.

i don't even know what album that is but remaster =/= remix, if it sounded like shit, a remaster is just going to make it sound more like well polished shit.

You posted the wrong album.

>*mixes out the bass*

The sound was compressed so that the entirety of it would fit on one disc. It’s too sharp sounding IMO.

>produced

The actual Iggy Pop mix is GOAT

>*mixes out the drums*

i've never thought the mix was too bad on this

can you point out any specifics

Man, I wouldn't say bad, but probably wouldn't say great. I imagine it's hard hard as shit to get a clear, clean drum sound when recording Zach considering he plays 30 notes a second. That and the skeletons of this were probably recorded in a live jam and all spliced together. Incredible album though.

Omar has pretty good production on every album he participates IMO

This applies to later black metal too, especially the French Black Legions. Pic related has the absolute worst production I have ever heard, but it's incredible.

Remasters exist.

I'M A SOUND ENGINEER

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everything pre 2010

But CB himself actually disowned this album because the producer made changes to the structure without asking him. Don't take it too seriously, I barely consider it a part of the Beefheart canon

The way you used to do sounds really trapped in a box.

Not him but I really hate the vocal mix, I can hear EVERY TIME the lead singer smacks his lips.

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Really just the vocal mix - both the over pronounced mouth noises and how the reverb is so different from the rest of the instruments.

I still love the album though

before it was recently remixed gloriously and done justice this was one of the worst travesties
it was like being a kid trying to watch the hottest porn ever through the scrambler or something

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that's good
try turning that fancy little knob thing

>implying he's not a producer
Either he makes every album he's involved with sound exactly the same, or every artist he's ever worked with asks for it to sound like that. And I doubt it's the second one.

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a remaster? it's fucking intentional you mong, a remaster will not remove the intentional abrasive noise, it is supposed to hurt your ears before assailing you with beautiful pop music

same
every bathory pre-BFD hurts my ears after 2-3 minutes and i don't enjoy having tinnitus

It really depends on what mix you're talking about when it comes to bad production. The Bowie mix has the front end and back end wayy too spaced out, and the iggy mix is basically nuked. To me, each mix has it's moments, but they're not really all that great.

It's not as abrasive than surfer rosa i'll give you that, but bad production? what makes you think that?

ugh, this. selfish gene and boys latin were ruined so hard. boys latin is a great song but is totally unlistenable on this album

It's bad but it works, imo

>implying it didn't just get lost during cocaine induced layering of the guitars

“no”
album mostly was meh but definitely would’ve benefitted without that one dude from uptown funk fuck that guy
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Also this


pic related is amazing especially live but holy hell is this mixed terribly

for some reason this *sounds* shit to me, despite the genius of it musically. for so many musicians playing it sounds so small, same problem with 'if youre feeling sinister'

its just so god damn LOUD

Pretty much any of The Smiths albums sound like shit

>if you're feeling sinister
That's a terrible opinion.
I love how that album is produced, the sounds are all easy to pick out of the mix, and you can focus on pretty much any instrument.
The lyrics and instrumentation already have a "comfy" feel to them, but the production only enhances this.
It's easily one of my most favorite albums, both as a whole, and just in terms of production.

I agree about LYSF though

Most of NMH's work has bad production, but this one at times sounds really muddy at times.

This and the other newest album.

I don't know if it's the recording or the production but it's just fuzz and bass and it's at least 8dB quieter than the previous albums.

Youngbloods was fun, "Chasing Ghosts" was alright.

Meaning from +4 to -4dB because logarithmic scale.

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it's part of the charm
i see what you're saying. I feel that the mouth sounds and all that goofy feedback kinda helps to add to the intimacy and shakiness of the album's general feel

It sounds so sterile, like it's too afraid to have any sort of edge, which is a shame because the songwriting is infinitely better than surfer rosa

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>but have terrible production
What do you mean "but"? Shitty production is better

sounds like you're listening to someone else listening to the record through a wall

it's like they put a lowpass filter over the master bus

the worst thing about it is the mixing of the fucking drums
why not keep that shit mono?

You have no idea how much I wish it had a production like Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

Albini sabotaged this album.

>Hey, let me turn up the instruments so loud that they make the vocals damn near inaudible!

Then later on

>Hey, what if the instruments sounded like a bunch of goddamn feedback and static?

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>It's bad but its good
the state of Sup Forums

surprised i have not seen this one tho

every memphis hip hop album

the mother of them all

How do you tell if it is bad on purpose or the other way?
Another question: How do you tell a prod is "really" good? Sometimes I hear somebody says an album is overproduced etc. I can't tell any difference. Somebody recommend me some good source on this, please?

>how to tell if it's bad on purpose
Generally the artist themselves will give indications
>genre
>album cover
>general aesthetic
These 3 things should clue you in as to whether they did it on purpose or not. Black Metal is generally badly produced on purpose, for example.

>how to tell good production
That can be a personal preference, but consensus says all instruments or sounds are clear in the mix, and a little something extra for careful listeners. Clarity, dyanmics, punch where it needs to.

>over produced
This doesn't always have to be negative, but when used as a negative it means there is TOO much going on in a bad way, like too many things are going on so it's hard to stay focused, too much "cooking", too perfect, too clean and plastic, too many effects, too many "tricks".

Seriously, why does it sound so dull? Was this a conscious choice or was the producer a hack? Why is there no proper remaster yet?

what?

A few of the tracks on here are shittily recorded live versions (my dream girl don't exist) so it makes sense.

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Wtf are you on about, the production on Lateralus is great.

this
it sounds so bad, it's unlistenable to me

Fucking laser soumds amd whooooping sounds

I don't hear much wrong with the production on lysflath. Yanqui is ruined by its production though

That's not always true. Good mastering can sometimes make things sound a little clearer when compated to cheap mastering. The re-release of Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything is a good example of this, regardless of your opinion of the band's music.

Also, often times albums billed as "remasters" have some remixing involved. It's not wrong to call it a remaster, because technically the album has to get mastered again anyways after the new tweaks.

came here to post this, still decent album (far from their best) but yeah bad production

I usually skip this for the 1990's Mirror Man Sessions. It has most of the tracks of Strictly Personal and they don't sound like complete shit.

do they really need all this reverb?

Redbook Audio doesn't work like that. The get around the 74 minute hard limit they just invented the 80 minute CD. That's why CD-Rs come in two dufferent sizes.