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Originally Posted by Antonio
most of Black Flag's Damaged suffers HEAVILY from the terrible production. these days i can't listen to half of it without feeling sick.
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I find the opposite.
I think the rawness of the production makes that album. Although I do agree with Janszoon that it ruins other SST albums.
Pretty much all of Husker Du's stuff after Zen Arcade sounds awful, especially the last 2 albums on Warners.
Another band who's production I've never really liked despite being a favourite of mine is Motorhead.
You'd think with Lemmy being the band leader that Motorhead albums would have real powerful pounding basslines, but because of the way he plays it just sounds like a slightly lower toned lead guitar and it just makes the music feel a little flat & tinny. I can't think of a single Motorhead album where the production really packs a punch and i've always found that a shame.
I think Jimmy Miller probably came closest on Overkill.
One producer I particularly like is Martin Hannett. I've seen various people including members of Joy Division slate his production, especially on Unknown Pleasures but I think that he made that album sound so unique it's one of the reasons it's held in such high regard.