Records Or Songs That Have "SOUNDED" Amazing To You Recently

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meaning production and all that. aurally amazed. you don't even have to like the album or song that much. just an example of something you heard that threw you for a loop. i have a nice mono (vinyl) copy of the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album on Elektra and I hardly ever play it, but I put it on today and it sounded friggin' beautiful! loud, clear, crisp, the smack of the drums and the sting of the guitar tickling my ear nicely. and right now i'm playing a nice (vinyl) copy of marvin gaye's trouble man soundtrack and i had forgotten how those beatjunkie drums on "T" Plays It Cool smack you upside the head! Wowsa, what a track. Not that great sounds need to beat you senseless. but, um, apparently i really like it when they do. sometimes i think i should be on a board called I Love Sound. Cuz that's really what it's all about for me. And it's definitely why i will listen to anything and everything. or at least try anything and everything once. you know what else sounded really nice to me? just so you don't think i am entirely anti-digital or something (which is hardly the case. and i think that Kompakt should win some sort of award for what they can get out of the medium.). i got this soundtrack to a movie called The Graffiti Artist in the mail by this dude Kid Loco and the first loooong track is all beats, sitars, and clarinet and it just goes on forever. then i think he adds some tablas and some other stuff. anyway, sounds like a dream. very spacey/spacious and it creates a great presence in the room.

so, examples for you? be specific if you can. CD/vinyl/remastered/Japanese white label promo only/whatever.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The 2005 "fan club" remasters of Status Quo's "Hello" and "Live Quo." The older editions weren't bad but the newest ones are at the old vinyl's point where there is no trace of harshness in the cymbals or the treble on the guitar no matter how loud you push it. Definitely as good as the old vinyl I remember.

The crunching, tromping rhythms of "Roll Over Lay Down" and "A Reason For Living" on the former and "In My Chair" and "Rain" on the latter are superb. It just walks right over the listener.

― George Smith, Friday, 25 March 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Candy Shop" -- great backing track, useless vocals, it would be a fantastic record if the guy rapping on it brought anything to the song.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Amerie, "1 Thing." Irresistible Meters sample, great vocal performance. I think we'll be hearing a lot of copycatting "free" drumming samples in hip-hop/R&B records over the next few months.

Also: Alicia Keys, "Karma." Love the violins. Drama!

― bogopogo, Friday, 25 March 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the new Raveonette's record, "pretty in black," is gorgeous. The guitar tones and the tasetfully airtight production yields a retro-futuristic sound. Awesome. Songs bring to mind 50s style writing and the feel of the record is surreal.

-chadly con Queso

― chadly con queso (chadly con queso), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Big hangover today, and all the music I was listening to sounded incredibly right, everything pin sharp and each sound going right through me. Anybody ever get days like that? My playlist:

Knifehandchop - "Bounty Killer Killer"
M.I.A. - "Pop"
Pig Destroyer - "Black Dice"
Lil' Jon - "Diamonds"
Naked City - "Speedball"
Outkast - "The Way You Move"
Lightning Bolt "13 Monsters (Live)"
Lyrics Born - "Callin' Out Remix"
Merzbow - "Door Open at 8am"
Model 500 - "Starlight"
Pinback - "B"
Petey Pablo - "Freek-a-Leek"

The Merzbow into Juan Atkins was particularly incredible, like being washed in spangly exploding pixels of sound. Good day.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The production on Die, Monkey, Die by Headcount is surprisingly expansive. This is not a band that's ever going to take over the world, but the sound of the record is a real pavement-cracker.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like all the big dense washes of sound on Up In Flames, the one that sticks out is at the beginning of "Everytime She Turns Round..."

Joy Division - "Isolation"

I like the sound of the guitar at the beginning of "Haunted Graffiti"

The part of "Kiss Me Again and Again" where the organ just makes this noisy dissonant droney mess over the top of the track, it's around the 9-11 minute mark.

Black Dice - "Live Loop" for some reason my ears really dig that atmospheric noise in the background.

Lately I'm a HUGE sucker for the hushed bed of strings during the first part of "How To Disappear Completely"

Big hangover today, and all the music I was listening to sounded incredibly right, everything pin sharp and each sound going right through me. Anybody ever get days like that?

Usually it's the opposite for me, if I'm hung over I want silence and darkness or I get a headache. But last weekend it was like you described, everything sounded much better for whatever reason. I forget what I actually listened to though, aside from most of Wowee Zowee.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I just purchased some expensive new headphones, so all of my records are sounding great! No, seriously: I am hearing string flourishes I never new existed. Of course this goes doubly for any record produced by Dave Fridmann, so I'll just go ahead and say the new Mercury Rev album, even though it's kind of cheesy.

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

first track of Rebore Vol 0 !!!!

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 28 March 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Crazy Rhythms (the song) by The Feelies...killed me the other day.!

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 28 March 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

'Gold Dust Woman,' whatever effect is on the vocal during the verse. Echo, I guess.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Merzbow in Juan Atkins? I will have to try that...

― moley, Monday, 28 March 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Anything produced by The Sensible Twins, which is an alias for Norwegian producers H.P. Gundersen and Kato Ådland. Never fails to impress me, which is also the case with their recent work for Nathalie Nordnes and Sissy Wish.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael mayer's Immer mix followed by Taking Tiger Mountain and now World Of Echo . With my windows open, nonstop rain and passing cars outside. The three cd's have all sounded AMAZING.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The Sharon Jones album sounds AMAZING. Whoever produced it managed to capture the spirit of '76.

― dap duke, Monday, 28 March 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

second on "one thing", "why do black man fuss and fight" "still tippin'" (still), "ron artest", "oh" by ciara, "singin' in the rain (mint royale remix)"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"the case with their recent work for Nathalie Nordnes and Sissy Wish"

SISSY WISH!!!! I must hear them just based on that name. if it is a person named SISSY WISH even cooler!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I got some of them Can remasters recently- Soundtracks and EGE BAMYASI and they sound pretty good to me.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sissy Wish is an artist name. Some of her early material (prior to being signed, and also prior to getting produced by those guys) is found here: http://www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=603

Melody oriented pop, influenced by Kate Bush and Phil Spector in particular.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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