Favorite poorly-recorded albums

One more for Todd.

"Nearly Human" is IMHO an utterly fantastic album, one of my all-time favorites. The SQ sucks.

Really odd. Given that so much of his career has been spent producing other artists, coupled with his penchant for technology, you'd think that he'd be on top of it.

Go figure.

Marty

I was just listening to Todd Rundgren, too. Maybe I'm just drawn to badly recorded albums?

Interesting comment about Springsteen. I'm always mystified by big differences in recording quality between an artist's albums. Beck is my prime example. Sea Change and Mutations are amazing recordings. Modern Guilt is just plain bad.

Doesn't every record that was recorded at Rundgren's Bearsville Studios sound like junk? Like they use a DAT machine and a Radio Shack mike.

Then again, there is truth in adverstising, all you have to do is listen to Rundgren's "Sounds Of The Studio" off of "Something/Anything". He pretty much gives you the blueprint for all of the garbage that you will get to hear. Ya gotta love it!

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame ( pretty bad )
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire ( even worse )
Yngwie Malmsteen with Japan Philharmonic ( terrible )

The other two are:
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal ( pretty bad )
John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia/Al di Meola - Passion, Grace&Fire. Acoustic guitar masterpiece but that digital recording of 1981 sucks big time. What a shame.