{"id":5508,"date":"2011-01-28T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2011-02-01T23:52:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:52:35","slug":"artists-who-have-dabbled-in-production-for-other-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/artists-who-have-dabbled-in-production-for-other-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Who Have Dabbled in Production for Other Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mick Jones not included.<\/p><\/div>\n

Excluding self-produced albums, what established artists who have dabbled in producing records for other artists most interest you? And I put an emphasis on dabbled<\/em> to rule out established artists who are also established producers, like Steve Albini<\/strong> and Brian Eno<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For instance, I wish I could hear a few more albums produced by Elvis Costello<\/strong>, who somehow made both clear and extremely simple the clutter of The Specials<\/strong>‘ debut. He also produced the only (in my opinion) fully enjoyable Squeeze<\/strong> album, East Side Story<\/em>, which was engineered by Friend of the Hall Roger Bechirian<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Andy Partridge is another artist I’d like to hear produce a few more albums. I’m a big fan of his work on Peter Blegvad<\/strong>‘s The Naked Shakespeare<\/em> and Martin Newell<\/a><\/strong>‘s The Greatest Living Englishman<\/em>. I wish he’d have taken the reins on his own band’s albums beginning with Skylarking<\/em>, but that may have eliminated him from this discussion.<\/p>\n

As far as I know Ray Davies<\/strong> only produced one album for another artist, The Turtles<\/strong>‘ Soup<\/strong> album. That’s a winner, but considering Kinks albums are typically no great shakes in terms of conventional recording techniques I’m not sure Davies had that much else to offer.<\/p>\n

David Bowie<\/strong> has proven himself a pretty lousy producer, or at least a less-than-satisfying one, in his work with others. I’m not saying the bass-heavy version of Raw Power<\/em> rectified the shortcomings of the original mix, but it’s still hard for me to fully enjoy that album. His production work on the biggest-selling singles by both Mott the Hoople<\/strong> and Lou Reed<\/strong> is amazing, but I’m not a big fan of his work overall on their albums.<\/p>\n

Which artists do you wish you could hear more\u2014or less\u2014of in the producer’s chair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excluding self-produced albums, what established artists who have dabbled in producing records for other artists most interest you? And I put an emphasis on dabbled to rule out established artists who are also established producers, like Steve Albini and Brian Eno. For instance, I wish I could hear a few more albums produced by Elvis […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[153,10,230,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}