Favorite poorly-recorded albums

Gerry Rafferty-Night Owl-Soundstage is flat as a pancake with limited bass response.

Not a terrible sounding album but in comparison to some Pink Floyds Animals lacks some sparkle. It begins muffled but I think the music lets you forget its flaws.

Flaming Groovies "shake some action "

Chadnliz, try a British Harvest of "Animals" if you have not already done so. It really sounds great compared to the other pressings that I have heard. It may just change your mind about this one.

I have always thought Todd Rundgren's albums often sound poor, but I really love the music. I can remember bringing around Nearly Human, a (live in studio) digital recording. I couldn't have any system that wouldn't allow me to enjoy this wonderful , though hard and thin sounding music.

Recently, Springsteen's Magic had to be one of the worst sounding modern major recordings (where the artist wasn't looking for a distorted, low fi or garage sound) His next album, Working on a Dream got a little better. Bad mastering, I think on both. Earlier Springsteen on LP can sound quite good. Shame we are going backwards, though the relatively unprocessed Seeger Sessions sounds pretty good.