Nominees For Worst Recording Of All Time


While listening to a downloaded recording on iTunes through my Air Pods while at the gym, I thought that Grand Funk Railroad's recording of Get It Together would certainly sound sound better through my system than through air pods.  Particularly the drum parts.  
Upon returning home I listened to the CD version through my Bluesound Vault, no improvement.  Electric piano was distorted beyond belief, drums had a slight improvement.  Next Tidal through the Bluesound and finally a vinyl recording.  God this album is good through an iPod, but sucks on quality equipment.  I won't go into the details of my system, but four versions confirms that this is a poor recording.
Any thoughts on this one or other turkeys?  I have another nominee which will wait for a later post.

udog
i always though born to run sounded horrible. husker du's zen arcade is another vg recrod that was bdly recorded.
Bruce Springsteen followed by U2....unbelievable Bruce would allow those crappy recordings although his music is stellar
RUSH "Vapor Trails". I actually threw that CD in the trash since I could not listen to it. I knew there was good music in the CD but it was unlistenable. This disk is rather legendary for how bad the Dynamic Compression was. A little shocking considering Rush are an intelligent band.

A few years later RUSH released that album with a re-master. I ended up buying the hi-res version and it is now one of my fav RUSH releases.
springsteen's commercial breakthroughs were produced by jon landau, who was a rock critic by training--why springsteen wanted that hollow, unnatural sound is a mystery to me, esp. since his first two records sounded good in a conventional way.
Old Rod Stewart CDs sound horrible on a decent system.Best enjoyed on a lowfi set up.