Much as we love a well-recorded album, occasionally nothing can beat a really dirty production.
When you listen to the Ramones first album, you are not listening for transparency and clarity, you’re listening for amphetamine-fuelled rake-thin teenagers playing in a garage band.
In fact that’s the operative word, I like my garage bands to sound like they were recorded in a garage.
So, on this slightly contentious subject, we’d like to know what your favourite badly-produced album is. Whether it’s the headbutt of noise that is The Stooge’s Raw Power, the lo-fi fidelity scratchy strangeness of Daniel Johnston’s ‘Yip Jump Music‘ or the compressed-to-death-but-perfect for-playing-loud-in-a-pub Oasis first album, let us know here.
Eva Cassidy – Time After Time – great voice, tragically silenced too soon – thikn what a decent recording job would have done for this album!
Posted: Thursday, 13 May 2010A friend introduced me to The Moldy Peaches a couple of years ago. Raw production – could have been recorded on a £5 walkman, but it adds to the naive teenage tunes and it’s childishly funny in parts. Try ‘Anyone Else But You’, or, ahem, “Downloading Porn with Davo”. We actually used it as a production style reference for some TV ad music recently.
Posted: Sunday, 16 May 2010Mouldy Peaches is great example. I always loved the noise in any of Mick Collins’ projects especially The Gories and the Dirtbombs.
Posted: Monday, 17 May 2010All the Will Oldham Palace albums. While I love the wonderfully natural recordings of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy albums, the earlier Palace stuff is full over amazing tunes and wonderful lyrics – but sounds ike it was recorded in a shed.
Posted: Monday, 17 May 2010The smiths-The Smiths,
Posted: Sunday, 13 February 2011