re: Most well produced album?

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Recorded hundreds of tracks with Jeff Tomei over the years and he'll tell you that album was the biggest pain in the arse he's ever had.

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Oh, I don't doubt that, but what they achieved was perfection.

Throwing out Green Day -Dookie, also Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, and the Rick Rubin/Johnny Cash collaboration.

i'll add two that haven't been mentioned:

at the drive-in - relationship of command, produced by ross robinson.
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another would be refused - shape of punk to come, produced by Eskil Lövström, Andreas Nilsson, Pelle Henricsson, and the band themselves.
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Every ELO album from Eldorado to Time. I can't pick one.

After reading the thread - we should make a delineation between Protools, pre- and post- eras.

You simply can't compare what guys like Sam Phillips, Joe Meek, Brian Wilson, George Martin, Phil Spector, Quincy Jones, Andrew Powell, Todd Rundgren, Mutt Lange, Arif Mardin, Rick Rubin, Tom Scholz, Niles Rodgers, Daniel Lanois, et al, did in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s with actual magnetic tape - 4, 8, 16 track recorders and old school drum machines - and actual, no-shite analog mixing boards, archaic effects - from a recording, engineering and production standpoint to the final product to be pressed to vinyl, with what goes on today in the all-digital world.

It's not even apples-to-oranges - it's like apples-to-plutonium.

(And I'm not all down on newer acts - I love the production on Tool's albums. And I'm not all down on hip-hop - Dre could be mentioned in the same breath with the above cats, no question.)

David Bottrill makes things better:

Tool - Lateralus
Silverchair - Diorama
Fair to Midland - Fables from a Mayfly
Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise

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