[kramer5150]

Mine:
Asia - Live in Moscow. It sounds muddy, conjested and very 1 dimensional... Like they placed a couple mics off stage and just ran the tape. Ive heard bootlegs that sounded like this. Great tunes though.

Just about any Rush studio release.

 

[roadtonowhere08]

Off the top of my head, Id' say the 2002 remaster of Ozzy's No Rest For The Wicked. Rice crispies city. Absolutely unacceptable.

Anyone looking for Ozzy should go for the 1995 Sony remasters or first pressings (including the Japanese releases). Anything after 1995 is pure garbage in terms of mastering.

 

[Azure]

I have a very small cd collection, but I'd say Jon Bishop's Global Hardhouse. So many hisses and pops

 

[saturnine]

My top four, in order:

Ours - Precious
The Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood (HOT!)
Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea
The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger. (Bad album altogether)

 

[humanflyz]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea

 

[lmilhan]

Dreamtide - Dreams For The Daring.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication.
The Killers - Hot Fuss (although I think this CD was purposely recorded this way).

I absolutely LOVE the music contained on those albums, but the recording quality is horrifying... Whoever mastered those albums needs a swift kick in the nuts with poisoned, very sharp steel toed boots.

I DEFY anyone to find a modern recording that is worse than the Dreamtide album I mentioned. I *dare* you.

 

[Purgatos]

The Velvet Underground & Nico

No explanation needed.

 

[saturnine]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Purgatos The Velvet Underground & Nico No explanation needed.

Ahh, but the MFSL version more than fixed the problems

Keep an eye out for a used copy, it's worth it

 

[elrod-tom]

Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory

Great album...sounds simply AWFUL!!

I bought the SACD in hopes that it would make a difference...marginal at best.

 

[sebascrub]

Quote:

Originally Posted by elrod-tom Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory

x2....ever since I got my Etys and amp, I can barely listen to them

...the music is too good to totally ignore them, though. Always listen to the music before the equipment

sebascrub

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

Angel Dust "Enlighten The Darkness": Compression out the wazoo really takes a dagger to this otherwise excellent power/prog metal concept album (replaygain gives it -12.99dB for the album gain). It's still decently listenable (not awfully loaded with clipping as Zwan or Californication are), but just flat as hell, with the least dynamic sound I've ever heard from a metal album.

The original release of Nevermore's "Enemies of Reality" sounded downright awful; muddy with almost no emphasis of the vocals or high end. It sounded worse than most poorly encoded 128kbps MP3's. Thankfully, they were so appalled by the final mix, they were able to get the label to put out a "fixed" version, but that just shouldn't have had to happen in the first place.

 

[Jussei]

Quote:

Originally Posted by humanflyz Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea

x2

I've only got it on vinyl, but it's no better. Most parts of the album seemed to have far too much gain. Although, with that said, it's still a great album and I think the fact that it was recorded poorly adds to its mystique and 'coolness.'

 

[dhp]

This is a bad sign, but I have urges to listen to the aforementioned CDs

 

[Aman]

The Mars Volta - "De-Loused At the Comatorium"

This album is inexcusably mastered - it doesn't come close to doing the music justice. There is so much compression and clipping, and the instruments take up such a wide area of the image, that, literally, it sounds like all of the music is one gigantic forward-blasting bubble of noise.

Liars - "They Were Wrong So We Drowned"

See above description. Same complaint.

 

[Duggeh]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aman The Mars Volta - "De-Loused At the Comatorium" This album is inexcusably mastered - it doesn't come close to doing the music justice. There is so much compression and clipping, and the instruments take up such a wide area of the image, that, literally, it sounds like all of the music is one gigantic forward-blasting bubble of noise.

X2 here. Its one of the few albums I simply cannot listen to because of the massive distortion. They must have just kept hitting the normalise button until they got a solid wall of sound.


The GY!BE CDs are also dissapointingly mastered, the volume is too hot to allow for what should be some stupendous crescendo builds. The LPs are better, but not hugely so.