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I am especially interested in post-rock, post-metal stuff like Isis, Neurosis, Russian Circles, Pelican, Red Sparowes - and prog-metal like Baroness and Mastodon, etc.
Rage Against the Machine's first album sounds great. Metallica's Ride the Lightning is mixed terribly, but it can still blow your head off. Torche's most recent album is a victim of the Loudness War, apparently, which is odd with as far off the beaten path as they are. I am curious about Clutch.
Witchcraft's Legend and The Sword's Apocryphon are both awesome albums, but I haven't gotten to pop them on a really good setup yet. Well, Witchcraft sounded rather congested on Vienna Acoustic's The Music, but I have gathered those speakers don't play well with compressed music with thick midrange content. Anyway - I want more awesome music that is worth getting geeky with when I feel like it, you know?
PLEASE HELP!
Dream Theater's "Take the Time" as a reference track.
I wish Tool recordings were better.
Any Rollins Band has excellent DR and pretty natural sound. "Come In And Burn" is the best recording and he's got some pretty good players too.
Although I've just heard it via Spotify/portable/headphones so far, the latest Baroness album seems well produced & mixed. Don't know yet how it will sound uncompressed on the house stereo.
These may be way off of your wavelength, but two things I love are old Jefferson Airplane records (Ask Alice...lol),
Chambers Brothers (Time), and the "Jazz" and "Paradise and Lunch" albums by Ry Cooder.
The worst purchase I ever made in a CD was "The New York Rags" by David Chesky. It doesn't even qualify as music, in my book; the musical ravings of someone who needs to be on different medication.
That is good intel - thanks. I like Rollins Band, so I will keep an eye out.
Regarding Dream Theater, I was hoping for something a bit less self-indulgent (which is why I didn't ask about the G3 set, Yngwie, MAB, etc.) ;)