The Best Mix in the History of Rock and Roll (using commercial songs as a guide)

[RegenerationMix]

The Cars first album any track
Def Leppard Hysteria any track
Queen Night at the opera Bohemian Rhapsody
Shania Twain The woman in me any track
Beach Boys anything from 1964-1967
Gary Numan Pleasure Principle any track


Chris

[zedhed]

Alan Parsons 'I Robot' for me.

[Southsidemusic]

Foo Fighters (all their stuff)
Nirvana
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

I wasn't born until 1985 so most of the albums i see here on the thread is foreign to me but i wanted to post what sounds great in my world

[Stig Eliassen]

I'll mention the first 4 albums that sprung to mind, and that I listen to frequently:

Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ellipse - Imogen Heap
Hourglass - James Taylor
God Shuffled His Feet - Crash Test Dummies

[chrismeraz]

Money for Nothing.

You have to turn it up. Turn it way up.

[wreckingball]

No mention of Supertramp!??!
Particularly great is "School" from Crime of the Century, or the title track, or Rudy.
Anything from Breakfast in America.

[8dB.co.uk]

Boston "Foreplay / Long Time". Best. Mix. EVER.

Crime of the century was produced in a very interesting way. It sounds brilliant, but for sheer impact and detail, the Crown surely goes to Boston.

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[jamesleonard]

Donald Fagen. The Nightfly (Album) 1982.

Why?

Because it has: clarity, energy and a transparent crispness - which features: 'hot lashings' of melodic brilliance and intelligibility.

Yeah

Mind you - anything by the late, 'Roger Nichols' is worth listening to - I might add. Additionally, everything by the late 'Ron Murphy' - the mastering engineer at NSC.

[adam79]

I've always been impressed with the final re-mix to Nirvana's Heart Shape Box. Unless the guitar track was redone/overdubbed, what that engineer (I'm embarrassed that I've forgotten his name) did for that song is incredible. Especially when listening to it side by side with the original Steve Albini mix.

[cman]

Heart Shaped Box has a horrible edit (at least it sounds like an edit) when that guitar comes in off the break. It always bugged me.

Madonna has some good stuff. Take a listen to Don't Tell Me - nice edits.
Crisp vocal delay panning.

Earlier I heard someone mention Black Sabbath. The first album is blues in my opinion not "doom metal". Paranoid had some nice guitar sounds.

Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want - nice shaker. Listen to the stereo field open up as the song progresses. All real players. Can't beat money.

Who - Who Are You - live off the floor sound with incredible fidelity.

Too much to list. As previously stated, I have the artist list their top 10 and then I listen. Recently one artist liked the early STP sound.