My car is nearly 20 years old, and has a CD multichanger thing, a tape player and radio. Usually I put DAB radio in my cars and have radio 6 on, but for technical reasons, that isn’t possible in the current car.
Nothing subtle sounds good in the car; I’ve been buying old hip-hop/rap CDs which sound good. Soulwax sounds good. Chemical Brothers sounds good. Fugazi does not sound good.
Most of my listening does not fit the production aesthetic of what sounds good in the car.
Please recommend to me some CDs to buy cheap off-of-out-of eBay that have big, clean production.
Graceland is a good call! Just ordered it.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Quicksand was compression-related fun? That record is not so good imo, although the first album is. Albeit horrible production.
Charli XCX is the ultimate car listening because all her songs sound good played loud af which is good when your car is old and loud af also half her songs are about cars
Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland.
Nirvana - Nevermind.
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club.
U2 - Pop.
Soulwax - Radio Soulwax 2 Many DJ’s Vol 2.
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell.
QOTSA - Rated R.
All sound great on the CD format and available for the price of a pint.
It came out when I started working in a record shop. All I Wanna Do started getting radio play and Polygram deleted the album, because there was a clear trend of it taking off. It always fascinated me seeing record companies work an album like that.
It then sold very well. We kept one pre deletion copy just to play in the shop (on CD) and its great early morning coffee music. There’s definitely something charming about it.