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Great sounding CDs out there...

Hi. Hoping to share some info on well-recorded, great-sounding CDs available. I am a vinyl & digital enthusiast, and I do enjoy well-recorded CDs almost as much as good vinyl. Here are a few of my suggestions. Please pass along others:

Beck: Sea Change
Warner Brothers remasters of Fleetwood Mac & Rumours
Hope Waits
All Alison Krauss releases; especially live
Talking Heads "Special New Edition"; Warner Bros./Sire
Mark Knopfler "One take Radio Sessions";
Mark Knopfler "Sailing to Philidelphia"
MFSL Natalie Merchant "Tiger Lily"
Warren Zevon "Excitible Boy" Rhino remaster
10,000 Maniacs "Unplugged"; Elektra

These are just a few. I would really appreciate other suggestions. Thanks!
klipschking
timrhu
2,779 posts
 
Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth
Laurie Anderson - Life On A String
Annie DiFranco - Up Up Up Up Up
XTC - Apple Venus
A Nod To Bob, An Artists' Tribute To Bob Dylan On His 60th Birthday - This is a compliation cd on the Red House Records label.
mfsoa
76 posts
 
miles_gurtu
erikt
256 posts
 
Couple more:
All original label and release (no 'remasters' needed)
* Supertramp - Crime of the Century
* Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
* Joe Jackson - Body and Soul
* Roxy Music - Avalon
* Larry Carlton - Collections
* Jeff Lorber - Flip Side
rcrerar
215 posts
 
Aqualung? Seriously? Great album, a true classic, but a abysmal recording even on first pressing vinyl. I have purchased this album on digital disc three different times and even the latest version culled from the long lost,but suddenly found, first generation master tape sounds brutal. Flat, compressed, dry, harsh, congested. Sometimes first generation master or not, some recordings, especially mutli-tracked rock recordings, are just plain bad.
rlwainwright
1,904 posts
 
The Other Ones "The Strange Remain" is an exceptionally good-sounding recording, especially since it was done live. This one is an HDCD disc, as are all of the Grateful Dead albums.

For that matter, GD's "American Beauty" and "Terrapin Station" are fantastic recordings...

-RW-
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