worst sounding great lps

Derek and the Dominos, despite Tom Dowd.

1st Black Sabbath..mud

Add: Sabbath vol 4 and Who's next...actually have an older Castle remaster of Sabbath debut that sounds phenomenal...picked up mint copy of machine head on LP...sounds better than I recall.

Wow how important is the thread!!

iggy's raw power (david bowie) is a famously botched production, as is marshall crenshaw's field day (steve lillywhite). i'd throw in sst-era husker du (really great songs terribly recorded); i've also been surprised at how bad-sounding some of the smiths records were. not to be unduly controversial, but nevermind never sounded quite right to me, either--its super-clean, polished sheen saps the oomph you feel on in utero.