| Artist |
Song |
Album |
Year |
Country |
Produced by TOM WILSON
In the 1950's, he was the first to record albums by way-out jazz radicals Sun Ra and
Cecil Taylor. In 1965, he overdubbed a rock rhythm section onto
"The Sounds of Silence", thus creating "folk rock" and launching Simon
& Garfunkel to superstardom. The same year he convinced folk musician Bob
Dylan to go electric, and produced his epochal hit "Like A Rolling
Stone". Then in 1966 he moved from Columbia to Verve, where he
promptly signed The Velvet Underground and The Mothers of Invention --
the two most radical and influential American underground groups of the decade. "The Sixties" simply would not have been the same without him. |
 |
| Bob Dylan |
Subterranean Homesick Blues |
Bringing It All Back Home
|
1965 |
USA |
| Eric Burdon & The Animals |
Winds Of Change |
Winds Of Change |
1967 |
UK |
| The Mothers of Invention (Frank Zappa) |
Help, I'm A Rock |
Freak Out |
1966 |
USA |
| The Velvet Underground |
Venus In Furs |
The Velvet Underground & Nico |
1967 |
USA |
|
Produced/Engineered by Edwin H. "EDDIE" KRAMER
His early engineering gigs at Olympic Sound Studios in London included
The Beatles and Rolling Stones, but it was after working with Jimi
Hendrix that his career really took off. He engineered every
Hendrix recording session, and even followed Jimi
to New York where he also manned the boards for Led Zeppelin, KISS, and
a host of hard rock legends (as well as producing posthumous Hendrix albums.) He's not only the primary architect of
the Hard Rock sound, he is also especially known for live recordings, beginning in 1969 with the
ultimate live album -- the Woodstock soundtrack -- and continuing with most of the classic live albums of the 1970's including mammoth hits Frampton Comes Alive and The Song Remains The Same. |
 |
| Blue Cheer |
Feathers From Your Tree |
Outsideinside |
1968 |
USA |
| Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes |
Brain Games Of Yesteryear |
Marriage On The Rocks - Rock Bottom |
1970 |
USA |
| Sir Lord Baltimore |
Kingdom Come |
Kingdom Come |
1970 |
USA |
| KISS |
She (live) |
KISS Alive! |
1975 |
USA |
| Jimi Hendrix |
My Friend |
The Cry Of Love |
rec. 1968,
rel. 1971 |
USA |
|
Produced by RODGER BAIN
This notorious name is listed as producer for the first three
Black Sabbath albums, as well as the debut by Judas Priest and the
first two LP's by the lesser-known Welsh power trio Budgie. The
cleanly-seperated but super-dense "wall of sound" he created in the
studio has defined Heavy Metal ever since. He quit the
music business completely in 1976, and not much else is known about him.
(I can't even find a photo of the guy!)
|
 |
| Black Sabbath |
Hand Of Doom |
Paranoid
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK |
1970 |
UK |
| Judas Priest |
Run Of The Mill |
Rocka Rolla
|
1974 |
UK |
| Budgie |
Hot As A Docker's Armpit |
Squawk |
1972 |
UK (Wales) |
| Black Sabbath |
Faeries Wear Boots |
Paranoid
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK |
1970 |
UK |
|
Produced by JOHN CALE
John Cale played bass, piano and viola in The Velvet Underground,
and according to many accounts was their primary arranger and
architect of the group's early sound. After
recording two albums with them he quit to focus on his production
career, commencing with work on fellow ex-Velvets singer Nico's solo
albums, and midwifing the recording debuts of proto-punk legends The Stooges, Jonathon Richman's Modern Lovers and The Patti Smith Group. Some of his other collaborators
over the years have included Terry Riley, Nick Drake and Brian Eno. |
 |
| The Stooges |
No Fun |
The Stooges |
1972 |
USA |
| The Modern Lovers |
Roadrunner |
The Modern Lovers |
rec. 1972, rel. 1976 |
USA |
| Nico |
Afraid |
Desertshore |
1970 |
Germany |
Produced by TODD RUNDGREN
He earned his first fame in the late 1960's as lead guitarist
and songwriter for regionally popular Philladelphia group The Nazz, and
launched a respectable solo career (as well as the prog band Utopia) in
the 1970's. But perhaps even more impressive was his behind the scenes
career at Bearsville studios in New
York, where some of his early credits included engineering albums by
The Band and Gil Evans, followed by production work on a long list of hits by
Badfinger, Grand Funk Railroad, Sparks, Hall & Oates, Meat Loaf, Cheap Trick and many others. |
 |
| Patti Smith Group |
Seven Ways Of Leaving |
Wave |
1979 |
USA |
| XTC |
Grass |
Skylarking |
1986 |
UK |
| New York Dolls |
Pills (Bo Diddley) |
New York Dolls |
1973 |
USA |
|
Produced by Bryan "BUTCH" VIG
Back in the late 1980's in Madison
I used to see this long-haired blonde guy hanging out
all the time at
a certain record store. Turned out he was the drummer in
a local band Spooner, and he had built a recording studio in town and
was recording local & regional bands there (including
Killdozer, Die Kreuzen and Laughing Hyenas.) Then later I heard
this
no-name punk band from Seattle was in town to work with him on their new record (they liked the sound he got for Killdozer), and they played a show that I didn't bother to attend -- a few months later that record came out and it was Nirvana's Nevermind, arguably the most important rock album
of the 1990's. His subsequent work included popular records
by Smashing Pumpkins, Urge Overkill, Tad, L7, Helmet and Soul Asylum.
That blonde dude turned out to be the architect of "grunge
rock". |
 |
| Nirvana |
On A Plain |
Nevermind |
1991 |
USA |
| Smashing Pumpkins |
Cherub Rock |
Siamese Dream |
1993 |
USA |
| Sonic Youth |
On The Strip |
Dirty |
1992 |
USA |
| Killdozer |
Hot N' Tot |
Burl EP |
1986 |
USA |
"Recorded by" STEVE ALBINI
Always intensely devoted to his DIY & analog principles, this
guy is NOT a record producer. He is merely a recording engineer
who allows artists to "produce themselves." Yet his name on an
album has become synonymous with a specific sound and even seems to
give a certain aura of "integrity". Though he will record pretty
much anybody
willing to hire him, he often charges artists according to what they
can pay -- friends and artists he likes might get his help for
free, but millionaire rock stars
on major labels always have to "pay out the ass." |
 |
| The Breeders |
Lime House |
Pod |
1990 |
USA |
| Big Black |
The Ugly American |
Racer-X EP |
1984 |
USA |
| The Wedding Present |
Fleshworld |
Singles 1989-1991 (compilation CD) |
1991 |
UK |
|
Produced/Engineered by Konrad "CONNY" PLANK
The so-called "krautrock" movement in West Germany in the 1970's didn't
really make much of a wave at the time, but over the decades has turned
out to be a primal source of innovative 20th century sounds. The
most important single person in the history of der Kosmische Musik
is probably this fellow, who seems to have produced or engineered
just about every notable German group, including masterpiece albums by
Kraftwerk, NEU!, Cluster, Guru Guru, Ash Ra Tempel, and on and on. |
 |
Möbius & Plank
(with Holger Czukay from Can) |
Two Old Timers |
Rastakraut Pasta |
1980 |
Germany |
| Kraftwerk |
Von Himmel Hoch |
Kraftwerk |
1970 |
Germany |
| NEU! |
Negativland |
NEU! |
1972 |
Germany |
