Seafinch Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'd love to have a running list of bad/disappointing pressings to help me avoid buying stuff that will never get any play. I'll keep the first post updated. Keep in mind, this is all based people's opinions - ears and gear may vary. 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We're Missing Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver // Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of // Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) 30 Seconds to Mars // A Beautiful Lie (Picture Disk) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Sea When Absent // Sort of like Capitol's Amnesiac pressing where it's hard to pinpoint why it doesn't sound good... it just sounds off. AFI - The Art of Drowning // bad skip during Days of the Phoenix Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (Hot topic repress white) Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction (rhino/atlantic reissue on clear red vinyl) BadBadNotGood - BBNG2 // There's a whoosh throughout the entire damn album. Balance and Composure - Things We think We're Missing (1st Pressing) Bayside - Acoustic Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (Matador reissue from 2011 OLE 296-1) Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Bon Iver - Bon Iver - Very flat sounding. No dynamics. Bon Iver - For Emma and S/T // Both are noisy and flat. circle takes the square - decompositions City and Colour - Sometimes Cky - The Best Of - Sounds really flat. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To // Muddy Deafheaven - Sunbather Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion // pressing defect during Saviour that causes it to skip/loop. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone // very noisy across all sides Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) Fall Out Boy - Pax-Am Days (RSD Black Friday 7" set) fand island - self-titled Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) Glocca Morra - Ghoul Intentions // Hard to pinpoint but it sounds like it just wasn't properly mastered for vinyl. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ Goldfinger - S/T by SRC // Horrendous Green Day - Kerplunk (reprise records reissue) heavy heavy low low - turtle nipple IIOI/Everyone Everywhere - split // Sounds so lo-fi and scratchy. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC // Noisey and quiet. Kyuss - Sky Valley // Quiet and Flat La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom (first press) La Dispute/Touche Amore - split // Maybe that's the whole point because the digital copies sound bad too. Let live. - The Blackest Beautiful Lydia - Illuminate Melvins - Hold It In Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News // Thin sounding Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica Mr Bungle - All the pressings by Plain Muse - First 4 albums MxPx - Life In General (White by Tooth and Nail0 My Chemical Romance - Three cheers (first press) Nile albums - up to Those Whom The Gods Detes Norma Jean - The Almighty Box Set // sounds weird and the songs have shitty gaps in between songs. PBTT - Close 7" // side A hardly listenable Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You (Cola) // Noisy and very flat Pulp - His n Hers (MOV Reissue) Radiohead - All Columbia pressings Radiohead - OK Computer (Columbia) // I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. Rosetta - Flies To Flame (Highlighter Green) Saves The Day - Saves The Day (Black 1st Pressing) Secret Machines - Secret Machines Silversun Pickups - All // Sound like garbage, especially Swoon and Carnavas Small Brown Bike/Cursive split 7" Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie Box Set (1st US Pressing )(Fixed on 2nd pressing) Social Distortion - Sex, Love, and Rock 'n' Roll Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space (Plain Recordings) Spooky Black - Leaving EP Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (SRC's green marble) // Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (All pressings) Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (grey marble) Tame Impala - Lonerism (2014 Repress) // Very noisy. That Pianos Become The Teeth - Close RSD 7" // unbearable amount of noise, destroying two excellent tracks. The Antlers - Hospice // Distorted, flat, unlistenable The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis (OG Deep Elm Pressing) The Cure - Seventeen Seconds // Despite being a MOV release, it doesn't sound good, "A Forest" hisses through) The Fugees - The Score // Quiet and noisy. Very noisy. And expensive which makes it worse. The Menzinger's - OTIP The Wonder Years - Greatest Generation (1st Pressing) The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (single LP press) Thursday - War All The Time (grey with smoke/marble) Tigers Jaw - S/T (5th press | orange/white starburst) Title Fight - Hyperview (Grey) Turbo Fruits - Echo Kid // Major skips across both sides Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (1st Pressing) Twitching Tongues - In Love There Is No Law (First Press) Volcano Choir - Repave (Clear) Warpaint - The Fool // This one isn't terrible, but it's still disappointing that such a lush and nuanced album sounds so... flat. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright // sounds like someone threw a blanket over my speakers Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary Eliminator Jr. and Klefki 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museummouth Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (single LP press) Blink 182 - Enema of the State (splatter) Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree (reissue) off the top of my head Klefki and Seafinch 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doomcreep Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 That Pianos Become The Teeth Close RSD 7-inch this year that had an unbearable amount of noise, destroying two excellent tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambionic Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 All the Mr Bungle pressings by Plain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 All Capitol Radiohead releases sound shitty. That Pianos Become The Teeth Close RSD 7-inch this year that had an unbearable amount of noise, destroying two excellent tracks. The problem is the quiet part of the first song. The second song sounds fine, but yeah this belongs on the list. I'd like to add Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ It's missing like 20 minutes, I'd be all over a double LP redo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eliminator Jr. Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'd like to add Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ It's missing like 20 minutes, I'd be all over a double LP redo. Technically, no. The LP version is the album the way it was first released. Providence hasn't even been recorded until the first batch of vinyl was sold out and was dropped on the CD version, which is not only about double the length, but also sports a lot of differences and rearrangements within the two original songs. Also: The Antlers. Hospice - Distorted, flat, unlistenable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladew1ll1s1sdead Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Any of the Tell All Your Friends pressings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinji Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Way too many, and that makes me want to stop buying records and just listen to mp3s Klefki 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klefki Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 If I see anything's been pressed by URP nowadays I just don't buy it unless I see people saying good things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_stretts Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I have always found Volcano Choir's Repave didn't sound quite right to me - clear pressing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tape Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I have two Bayside albums and they're both pretty bad, especially Acoustic. That's the worst pressing I've ever heard. Victory's pressings seem to have a range from "merely adequate" at the top end to "unbearably bad" at the bottom. I completely ignore them for vinyl at this point. MCDELTAT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacoape Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 My copy of Good News for People Who Love Bad News sounds really thin. I don't think I've heard much about this one being a known issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futures Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 1st press of balance and composure's the things we think we're missing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdwell Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Goldfinger self-titled by SRC......horrendous MxPx Life In General (white) by tooth and nail all I got off the top of my head (surprise two more pop-punk records sound horrible? Gasp) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throughbeingcruel Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 1st press of balance and composure's the things we think we're missingMine didn't have any surface noise, but I've heard everyone else complain. SRC's green marble Starting Line- Say It Like You Mean It (Cheek to Cheek sounds fucking terrible) Lydia- Illuminate PBTT- Close 7" (side A hardly listenable) Taking Back Sunday- Tell All Your Friends, grey marble Thursday- War All The Time, grey with smoke/marble I'm sure I have more in my collection that sound subpar, but that's all I can think of at the moment. What really sucks is that minus the PBTT 7", the rest of those are fuckin' all-timers for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambionic Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 My copy of Good News for People Who Love Bad News sounds really thin. I don't think I've heard much about this one being a known issue. That's a shame, my copy sounds excellent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadreckoning Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Radiohead // OK Computer (Columbia) - I don't know what it is about this, but it just sounds shrill and off. That's because it is shrill and off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emacs Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Melvins - Hold It In Not sure how they managed to fuck it up as bad as they did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omik11303 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Courtesy Drop - Songs to Drive To; Cry, and Make Love To I actually got rid of it because a burned CD sounded better than the actual vinyl. Such a muddy pressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dapeebs Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie (damn picture discs...) Klefki 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambionic Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'm unsure if I should buy those Radiohead albums on Amazon if I don't know which pressing they'll end up shipping. I might have to stick with Discogs for this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizza face Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Spooky Black - Leaving EP Bought it brand new sounds VG even after a clean, probably the worst sounding album I own. I don't think they brushed any dust off before pressing it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seafinch Posted June 29, 2015 Author Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'm unsure if I should buy those Radiohead albums on Amazon if I don't know which pressing they'll end up shipping. I might have to stick with Discogs for this one. Chances are you'll get a Columbia pressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathyou99 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I got rid of my Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) a looooong time ago because I thought it sounded awful. I got a repress on clear and it sounded much better. I just remember thinking I must have gotten a bad copy or it was a terrible press because normally I wouldn't have gotten rid of THAT particular album, that easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I got rid of my Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (White) a looooong time ago because I thought it sounded awful. I got a repress on clear and it sounded much better. I just remember thinking I must have gotten a bad copy or it was a terrible press because normally I wouldn't have gotten rid of THAT particular album, that easily. The picture disc sleeve made that album suck. I know it matched the original artwork, but it should have still been in a sleeve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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