... POORLY RECORDED SONGS THAT ...

I just keep the poorly recorded stuff in my car.
With road and wind noise, and other distractions, 
(singing, too?) I am not expecting an audiophile
experience anyway.  The good recordings never
make it to the car...

Could segregating your collection by recording quality
be the answer?

@sgordon1 , the narrow DR stuff does sound okay in the car and probably for the reasons you mention.

Its the stuff, like Alabama Shakes' Sound and Color, that would lend itself to hi-fi listening but is poorly engineered that drives me crazy. I don't really want to listen to that in the car or at home.

@whart, I don’t own the Blind Faith album, and haven’t heard it in many years. Are the really bad sounding cymbals on only the one song? I ask because Ginger Baker’s cymbals, starting on the Graham Bond Organization albums, and continuing in Cream, always sounded bad. He doesn’t have very good taste in cymbals, and/or doesn’t know how to pick them out. The Zildjian cymbals he plays are infamous for being extremely variable in sound quality amongst examples of the same model; they need to be hand-picked. Ginger’s Zildjians are amongst the worst I have ever heard, both on recordings and live (I saw Cream twice, at the original Fillmore and Winterland).

Whole album is pretty bad sounding but i rarely listen to the whole album. That song, Can't Find My Way, is, to me, the best thing on the record and occasionally i'll play the entire side one. Side two is a disaster:  Sea of Joy is ok, but Do What you Like-- kinda like Ron Bushy's 48 year long drum solo. :)

I love all the Hendrix albums from a compositional and performance standpoint but I never understood why Mitch Mitchell's drums always seem so poorly recorded.