Best 5 engineered rock albums?


What is your list of the top five best engineered rock albums?
zorpman
seantaylor99:

really? Lenny Kravitz album well done... and also a good album music wise? The reason why I ask this, is cause it is clear that Mr. Kravitz is trying to "conjure" a retro, guitar-based, and raw sounding psychedelic kind of sound, but I never trusted him to be more than the usual MTV all-image-no-meat corporate rock product. (quick quiz: what album and song begins with the intoned phrase "corporate rock").

My fave 5, not duplicating any of my shared faves already listed by the good audiosouls posts above:
(all vinyl btw, is there any other way to listen to rock??)

Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland" (side one has the BEST live rocj recording ever, imo)
Genesis "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
Heart "Dreamboat Annie"
Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
Steely Dan "Aja"

PS: I define "rock" as having come to an end with the era of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, etc., and the rise of MTV. Everything after that is no longer rock; it is new wave, punk, post punk, industrial, techno, electronica, alternative, hip hop, etc etc. "Rock" is what you could have likely heard on any decent urban-area FM radio station in the 70's. Entire sides of albums, excellent "pop" stuff of the likes of Springsteen or Fleetwood Mac, etc. I'm sure my view is controversial and weird.

pcanis
Tortoise: "Millions now living will never die"
18th Dye: "Tribute to a Bus"
Massive Attack: "mezzanine"
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: "ACME"
Stereolab: "Dots and Loops"

Amazingly, all recorded in the last decade!

-Karl
genesis - selling england by the pound
steely dan - Aja or Two Against Nature
jeff buckley - grace
Liz Phair - White Chocolatespacegg
peter gabriel - so
Allan Parsons: "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"
Pink Floyd: "Dark Side of the Moon"
Steely Dan: "Aja"
Joan Baez: "Diamonds and Rust"
Santana: "Welcome".. most would say "abraxas" but I prefer this one.
also rans: the Eagles 1st album, Doobie bros. "Toulouse St."
Hey Zorpman! Are you primarily interested in engineering and production (Beatles "Sgt. Peppers") or drop-dead recording and mastering (Audiophile Sound)?