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SignUp Now!That may have been a rhetorical question, and anyone can make up a ton of answers, but I always imagined that the fact that Mitch Easter and Don Dixon both were not-very-old frontmen/guitarists in their own own right at the time they produced the record helped them take a lot more care with the guitar sound and the mix.How is it that R.E.M had such good production on their first album? Husker Du is another band from the same time period with similar indie rock prestige, and yet I find their albums unlistenably shitty sounding.
@rome8180 do you have any interest in the debut album by Boston? The story behind it is pretty epic. The guitarist and song writer, Tom Scholz was an MIT nerd who built all of his own pedals and did all of his own engineering in his basement.