Introduction
Many modern CDs don't sound as good as older ones. That's not a comment on the quality of the songs themselves but on modern mastering preferences. This page is my attempt to audit a cross section of music in terms of how well it was recorded. Please read the methodology page on how the ratings work.
Album list
60ft Dolls | |||
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1996 | CD | The big 3 |
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1997 | CD | How Ace Are Buildings? |
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2002 | CD | Hi-Fi Serious |
Alabama 3 | |||
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1997 | CD | Exile on Coldharbour Lane |
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2003 | CD | Last Train to Mashville Vol.2 |
Autamata | |||
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2004 | CD | My Sanctuary |
Babybird | |||
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1996 | CD | Ugly Beautiful |
Beautiful South, The | |||
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1989 | CD | Welcome To The Beautiful South |
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1990 | CD | Choke |
Belle and Sebastian | |||
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1998 | CD | If you're feeling sinister |
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2006 | CD | The Life Pursuit |
Bentley Rhythm Ace | |||
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1997 | CD | Bentley Rhythm Ace |
Billy Joel | |||
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1977 | CD | The Stranger |
Boo Radleys, The | |||
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1993 | CD | Giant Steps |
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1995 | CD | Wake Up! |
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1998 | CD | Kingsize |
Booth And The Bad Angel | |||
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1996 | CD | Booth And The Bad Angel |
Carla Lother | |||
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1994 | CD | 100 Lovers |
Dory Previn | |||
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1997 | CD | Mythical kings and iguanas/Reflections in a mud puddle |
Drugstore | |||
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1995 | CD | Drugstore |
Edensong | |||
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2008 | eMusic | The Fruit Fallen |
Electric Six | |||
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2003 | CD | Fire |
Fluke | |||
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1996 | CD | Atom Bomb |
Fratellis, The | |||
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2006 | CD | Costello Music |
Girlyman | |||
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2005 | CD | Little Star |
Go! Team, The | |||
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2004 | CD | Thunder, Lightning, Strike |
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2007 | CD | Proof of Youth |
God Help The Girl | |||
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2009 | CD | God Help The Girl |
Gorillaz | |||
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2001 | CD | Gorillaz |
Green Day | |||
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1994 | CD | Basket case |
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1997 | CD | Nimrod |
Hefner | |||
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1998 | CD | Breaking God's heart |
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2000 | CD | We love the city |
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2001 | CD | Dead media |
Helen Love | |||
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1997 | CD | Radio hits 2 |
Hella Cholla | |||
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2009 | eMusic | You're The Kind Of Guy |
Icicles, The | |||
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2007 | eMusic | Arrivals & Departures |
James | |||
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1990 | CD | Gold Mother |
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1993 | CD | Laid |
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1997 | CD | Whiplash |
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1999 | CD | Millionaires |
Jarvis Cocker | |||
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2006 | eMusic | Jarvis |
Jeffrey Lewis | |||
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2001 | CD | The last time I did acid I went insane |
Jeffrey Lewis & Jack Lewis | |||
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2005 | CD | City and Eastern songs |
John Otway and the Big Band | |||
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2000 | CD | The set remains the same |
Johnny Boy | |||
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2004 | CD | You are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve |
Johnny Flynn | |||
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2008 | CD | A Larum |
Jurassic 5 | |||
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1999 | CD | Jurassic 5 LP |
Kenickie | |||
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1997 | CD | At the club |
Ladyhawke | |||
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2008 | eMusic | Ladyhawke |
Ladytron | |||
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2004 | CD | 604 |
Lemon Jelly | |||
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2000 | CD | Lemonjelly.ky |
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2002 | CD | Lost Horizons |
Lo-Fidelity Allstars | |||
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1998 | CD | How to operate with a blown mind |
Lovers | |||
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2007 | eMusic | Sleep With Heat |
MJ Hibbett and The Validators | |||
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2003 | CD | This Is Not A Library |
Mando Diao | |||
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2006 | eMusic | Ode To Ochrasy |
Noise For Pretend | |||
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2002 | eMusic | Happy You Near |
Over The Rhine | |||
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2007 | eMusic | The Trumpet Child |
Placebo | |||
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1996 | CD | Placebo |
Pleasure | |||
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2003 | CD | Pleasure |
Primal Scream | |||
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1994 | CD | Give out but don't give up |
Pulp | |||
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1994 | CD | His 'n' hers |
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2001 | CD | We love life |
Queens of the Stone Age | |||
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2000 | CD | Rated R |
Roxette | |||
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1991 | CD | Joyride |
Roxy Music | |||
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1972 | CD | Roxy Music |
Samson and Delilah | |||
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2009 | CD | Samson and Delilah |
Silent League, The | |||
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2004 | CD | The orchestra, sadly, has refused |
Slow Club | |||
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2007 | eMusic | Because We're Dead |
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2007 | eMusic | Me And You |
Solveig Slettahjell | |||
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2006 | CD | Good rain |
Stellastarr* | |||
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2003 | CD | Stellastarr* |
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2006 | CD | Harmonies For The Haunted |
Suede | |||
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1994 | CD | Dog man star |
Sunday Driver | |||
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2008 | CD | In the City of Dreadful Night |
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2008 | CD | The Gayatri Mantra & Rats |
Super Furry Animals | |||
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1996 | CD | Fuzzy logic |
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1997 | CD | Radiator |
Swing Out Sister | |||
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1987 | CD | It's Better to Travel |
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2004 | eMusic | Where Our Love Grows |
Tara MacLean | |||
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1996 | CD | Silence |
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2007 | eMusic | Signs of Life |
Terrorvision | |||
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1994 | CD | How to make friends and influence people |
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1996 | CD | Regular Urban Survivors |
Tori Amos | |||
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1991 | CD | Little Earthquakes |
Willy Mason | |||
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2004 | CD | Where the humans eat |