don't know if this poll will interest many....can you seperate appreciation of good production from the music?

added a whole heap more (Travis to Hira) :)

john leckie for me :applaud: TNSG :wub:

I think Bennett slightly outdoes Leckie.

funnily enough one of my other top five fall albums -light user syndrome - is bennet produced

Travis / Thompson - I love that Rough Trade sound, although it's hard to disassociate the sound of the music from the music itself.

Showbiz did dragnet right? He gets my vote.

Oh, definitely Mr Showbiz. All the stuff he's produced sounds brilliant, like The Unutterable - literally every time I listen to that record I notice something new. And I've had it for, what, four years? That's a mark of good production, fo' sho'.

Also: listening to Levitate, I've got a bit of a soft spot for MES's home-made mono insanity.

Maybe a bit of an obvious choice, but I have to go with Leckie. Fans always talk about the Peel Session versions of songs being better than the "officially released ones." Well, in the case of Gut Of The Quantifier and Spoilt Victorian Child, I would argue that the Leckie-produced versions of those songs are far superior to the Peel versions.

Grant Showbiz :)

Grant Showbiz for me.

I don't like John Leckie's Fall production at all. It doesn't suit their style at all. Go and listen to "The Stone Roses" and there you have an album on which his production shines... cos his style really complements the music and the results are magnificent. But he should be kept away from The Fall.

Did Ed Blaney vote for himself?

Grant Showbiz, if only because he can get brilliant vocal performances out of MES.

Dan

The first Leckie-produced records were a real shock to me when they first came out, but I've gotten used to them and have accepted the idea of the Fall operating under diverse conditions, studio & otherwise.

I still tend to think of the Fall primarily as the greatest ever warts'n'all rock band, so my vote goes to Mr Showbiz for the early efforts.

I think we should have a vote for the most obscure of the above and I would go for Rob Gordon about whom I know zilch. Does anyone know owt about this man?

The guy who started What Are Records? is named Rob Gordon, and according to

http://www.whatarerecords.com/about_us/index.html

used to be an A&R guy for EMI. Could be the same Rob Gordon?

No, it's this Rob Gordon

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Robert+Gordon

A-ha. He's certainly difficult enough to locate for a reputedly "legendary producer".

Anyone who kniows anything about FON Studios in Sheffield (eg Chakk, etc) will know who Rob Gordon is :)

Haven't heard the new one yet.... :whistle:
Voted for Showbiz anyway....involved in more of my personal faves than any other producer...and the reviews of IWS suggest this is no exception! :beer:

Showbiz produced AYAMW, right? Psb-psb-psb-psb-psb. :banghead:
I'm not so convinced of his abilities. Dreadfully inconsistent. It's Nagle that made the Unutterable sound good, and whoever it was that Pro Tooled everything.

IWS is all over the map. Each track could be a different producer.

Whereas John Leckie is mighty. Anyone heard The Bends??