Good CDs Bad Recording

@shadorne, If RHCP means the Chili Peppers, then I agree.
I consider Rick Rubin to be one of the great producers of our time, in terms of his arrangements and artists' performances. Given that he has worked within certain genres of music; e.g., Rap and Heavy Metal, he was never going to produce any high quality recordings. One exception would be the Johnny Cash recordings.

But his contribution to the "Loudness Wars" puts him at the top of the list for churning out crap recordings.

Yeah - the Chili Peppers.

Other shameful producers or engineers who ruined good sound
Vlado Mueller
Butch Vig 
Tom Coyne

https://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/23/the-loudness-war/

Stairway to Heaven has like 35 Db dynamic range!!! Most everything produced for pop rock is 8 db or less these days - no wonder most everything digital sounds harsh and people are running to vinyl for the better sound.

With respect to Rush.

They have never sounded good - Power Windows was perhaps the best sound.

I suspect Geddy Lee's hearing is not that good - for example he likes Fleet Foxes which is terribly compressed. 

Joining this thread pretty late but want to add to what Marty and Arcam have said about Todd Rundgren.  Brilliant guy but, yeesh, the "A Wizard A True Star" CD I have is just tough to listen to...kinda thin and screechy.  

Another bad CD in my collection:  Hendrix's, Axis Bold As Love.  Love the music but too hot in the treble and pretty unpleasant on playback.

For me, these are two "reference" CDs but in a bad way.

Don't know if the fault lies in the original recording or the bad things done to it over subsequent generations.  

Seems also that Rhino remasters are, more often than not, ear bleed inducers.