Producers, Recording Engineers and Studio Wizards: POLL RESULTS

I'm just not clear on why he's so lauded or what about his production style is particularly revolutionary or influential - I mean ABC and Frankie are fine as synthpop acts go but I don't really hear anything in the production that's really all that different from say, Duran Duran or Talk Talk or whoever

It's his surname.

I've never been big on New Pop, we need one of the people who know all about that to explain Horn, I think.

17. King Tubby (239 points, 9 votes,3 #1 votes)
http://aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/king-tubby-dub.jpg
Credits: Augustus Pablo, Aggrovators, Prince Jammy, Bunny Lee, Yabby You, Niney the Observer, Roots Radics, Sly & Robbie, many others

Steve Shasta-certified greatest dub song ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn3vKX5_cB0

My number one. Surprisingly few votes for him though. Great picture!

this is a fairly compelling reason why trevor horn is so lauded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYhKVUKJsPo

that sounds ... sort of awful

16. TIE
DJ Premier (242 points, 9 votes, 2 #1 votes)
http://inyourbass.com/images/blog/djpremier.jpg
Credits: Gang Starr, Nas, KRS-One, Jay-Z, M.O.P., Rakim, Notorious B.I.G., many others

AND
Tony Visconti (242 points, 10 votes)
http://bowiezone.com/communities/9/004/008/626/509/images/4541482145.jpg
Credits: David Bowie, T. Rex, Sparks, Badfinger, Gentle Giant, Iggy Pop, Thin Lizzy, The Stranglers, Les Rita Mitsuoko, Adam Ant, Manic Street Preachers, Morrissey

re trvor horn :
i included trevor horn mainly for the duck rock album.
it changed everything for me, and opened my ears to the role of production in music.
that and abc, the dr mabuse 12" by propaganda, art of noise debut, side 1 of welcome to the pleasure dome, etc.
a lot of his music formed the basis of my musical awakening.
ok, he may not be up with the greats for many, but for a few years i bought anything with his name on it ..

15. Joe Meek (245 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote)
http://www.desoreilly.com/-Videos/Joe_Meek_A8.jpg
Credits: Solo, the Tornados, Lonnie Donegan, the Honeycombs, many others

The first of two murderers likely to make the list

lol

I've always considered him kind of a minor figure, was surprised at such a strong showing

14. Martin Hannett (246 points, 10 votes)
http://www.enkiri.com/joy/pics/m_hannett1.jpg
Credits: Joy Division, Happy Mondays, Durutti Column, New Order, Magazine

This being ILM, I thought Martin Hannett was a top 10 lock.

tbh the Top 10 solidified pretty quickly, Hannett hovered around in the low teens for the most part

Meek was my #1, & I placed him there without much hesitation. I love lots of his singles – Sky Men, Telstar, Johnny Remember Me – & I Hear a New World is awesome homebrew/brit-engineering experiment. But really I find it hard to pick the records apart from the myth side of him - weird shabby old britain (before 'the end of the Chatterley ban...' etc), miserable auteur in Archway making his own little world of strange plastic popstars, valves-and-dials futurism. And I guess I find the records' sounds wholly adequate to the imaginative lure of that world, which is why he was my #1.

I can see why he might not be so resonant outside britain obvs

also he shouldn't have killed that woman

glad we cleared that up then lol

13. Steve Albini (247 points, 12 votes)
http://www.buzzgrinder.com/media/shellachigdon.jpg
Credits: Big Black, the Pixies, Nirvana, Shellac, PJ Harvey, Jesus Lizard, Manic Street Preachers, Cheap Trick, Bush, others

Electrelane!

loving that picture.
beginning to think that neither of my top 2 are going to feature in this rundown ..

12. Brian Wilson (248 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Brian-Wilson-robe.jpg
Credits: The Beach Boys, the Honeys, American Spring, solo work

blimey. thought he would be top 5..

Tony Visconti! Some indie no-marks revived him in the 90s and the result was kinda underwhelming - but those Bowie records, and the stories.

Visconti is mad underrated. you can tell how much it burns him up that people think Eno did those Bowie records

Ha yeah, I was even thinking 'hold on, wasn't that Eno?' while I was typing that

obligatory 'too low' for hannett from me

maybe it's lucky for everyone else i didn't vote as he would have been my #1 and therefore probably in the top 10

BW was my #1.

i actually thought he would be several folks #1 choice.

very few ballots shared #1 spots, actually

xp Should have been!

His productions circa 1965-66, made during the period when he decided to stop playing live so he could hole up in the studio, I've probably listened to hundreds, maybe thousands of times my entire life. It still makes my hair stand on end.

11. Dr. Dre (254 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)
http://msofficer.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/dr-dre-wcwc.jpg
Credits: NWA, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, anybody else who can afford him

50. Mutt Lange (82 points, 3 votes)
49. DJ Quik (83 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote)
48. Carl Craig (85 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote)
47. Prince Paul (86 points, 4 votes)
46. Glyn Johns (87 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote)
45. The Dust Brothers (88 points, 5 votes)
44. Swizz Beats (89 points, 5 votes)
43. David Briggs (91 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote)
42. TIE Xenomania (94 points, 4 votes) AND Gary Katz (94 points, 4 votes)
41. TIE Jimmy Miller (95 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote) AND Norman Whitfield (95 points, 5 votes)
40. Marley Marl (96 points, 5 votes)
39. Joe Boyd (98 points, 4 votes)
38. Todd Rundgren (101 points, 5 votes)
37. Geoff Emerick (109 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote)
36. John Leckie (110 points, 6 votes)
35. Prince (115 points, 5 votes)
34. Chris Thomas (117 points, 7 votes)
33. Pete Rock (118 points, 5 votes)
32. Les Paul (122 points, 4 votes, 2 #1 votes)
31. Tom Wilson (124 points, 6 votes)
30. Thom Bell (131 points, 5 votes)
29. Martin Rushent (134 points, 7 votes)
28. George Clinton (136 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote)
27. Jimmy Page (139 points, 5 votes, 1 #1 vote)
26. Willie Mitchell (140 points, 6 votes)
25. Tom Dowd (141 points, 6 votes)
24. Holland/Dozier/Holland (165 points, 7 votes)
23. Rick Rubin (168 points, 9 votes)
22. The Neptunes (172 points, 7 votes) >>> disappointed in lack of indignant response to listing Clipse as their only credit :(
21. Rudy Van Gelder (176 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote)
20. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (180 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote)
19. Teo Macero (207 points, 9 votes)
18. Trevor Horn (226 points, 9 votes)
17. King Tubby (239 points, 9 votes,3 #1 votes)
16. TIE DJ Premier (242 points, 9 votes, 2 #1 votes) AND Tony Visconti (242 points, 10 votes)
15. Joe Meek (245 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote)
14. Martin Hannett (246 points, 10 votes)
13. Steve Albini (247 points, 12 votes)
12. Brian Wilson (248 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)
11. Dr. Dre (254 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote)

Pharmacist: "Hey, that's Brian Wilson! Shopping in my drug store! In his bathrobe! Quick, grab the camera!"

I thought Dre would make the top 10

ARE YOU READY FOR THE TOP TEN PRODUCERS OF ALL TIIIIIIIME

surprised at the lack of predictions on this thread tbh

Eno #1?

As much as I am absolutely no fan of hip-hop, I like seeing Dr. Dre up there and I think his place is deserved. Although I don't like his recent style as much as I did his G-Funk style, he does a great production job whenever he is involved. Pity he doesn't do more non-hip-hop. ;)

ok, prediction : #1 = george martin

and not cos i voted for him. i didn't

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annoyed I can't find the interview quote where Visconti talks about Eno getting credit for his work (something along the lines of "it's my name on those records!")

godrich is going to be top ten isn't he

vomit

wait Geir doesn't like hip hop?!???!???

10. Chic Organisation (275 points, 9 votes, 2 #1 votes)
http://www.chictribute.com/gallery/bilder/sister79.jpg
Credits: Chic, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Duran Duran, many others

Been looking forward to this Top 10, because there's a fair few that have already been mentioned which I thought would have been WAY up there. The Chic Organisation, I definitely didn't expect as a #10 position.

I was thinking Nile Rodgers alone, not the Chic Organisation

there were a bunch of votes for Rodgers & Edwards, Chic, and the Chic Organization so I just combined them all. they were ahead as front runners very early on.