Best Steve Lillywhite Production

Black Sea.

Steve Lilywhite's did his best work on that one Killdozer EP.

(xpost) Yeah, had no idea 'til this thread that Lillywhite produced Naked.

A lot of things make sense if you thread it together with his mixing, engineering and singles he produced. Like, he produced a few singles for the Smiths, and Johnny Marr is on "Naked." That sort of thing.

Famously, he was set to produce Rush but then backed out. That turned out to be the "Grace Under Pressure" record, which I really like, but which would have sounded neat with him producing.

I understand you wanting to stop before the DMB records, but you don't allow us the chance to vote for the awesome new Beady Eye record!

While my faith in Liam Gallagher as a songwriter is mediocre to say the least, Lillywhite did a good production job for Beady Eye. Much better than I imagine Owen Morris or Mark Coyle could have done.

What's that Thompson Twins album like btw? I don't think I ever head any of their pre-fame stuff.

There's "In The Name Of Love" although that track is very unrepresentative, actually pointing more forwards to the more famous stuff they'd do on the next album.

"Set" was more guitar oriented, and actually sounding very typical of Lillywhite's sound. As somebody who does actually consider myself a fan, I bought the twoofer of their first two albums when Edsel reissued it on CD for the first time a few years back, but I was not impressed.

Kate Bush sang on "the Seer" (from the Seer), not Steeltown. /buzzkill

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PG3

torn between Field Day and Talk Talk Talk

torn between the xtc albums (prefer drums & wires, but the black sea is more interesting, production-wise) and if i should fall from grace with god. those 1st three U2 records sound really great, too.

went with drums & wires.

He produced Johnny Thunders' So Alone, too (or at least co-produced it with Thunders). I'd probably still vote for Field Day.

Sorry--you specify co-productions don't count.

Been wanting to check out Kite for a while now. Same with the Ultravox...

Voting for The La's. He single-handedly made that album sound great. How do I know this? Because every single one of the demos on that massive 3CD reissue sound awful. "Oh! We're so happy these demos are out!" the fans would say. "This is the way the band wanted it to sound before Lillywhite stole all their master tapes and fucked it all up!" Tossers the lot of 'em.

Same with the Ultravox...

DO IT! Fucking great, weird little record.

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Huh, I could have sworn that was Kate Bush on "The Crossing," but I guess she doesn't pop up until Big Country's "The Seer?"

yeah, she does banshee wailing on the title track on the seer. don't think there's any female vocals on the crossing at all?

where is Southpaw Grammar or Maladjusted. Southpaw in particular is better than a most in the stuff in this poll, in fact I've grown to appreciate it more than Vauxhall. give it a spin.

3/Melt by miles and miles and miles and i'm not even a big peter gabriel fan.