Poll: What Fruvous album has the best production sound?

What Fruvous studio album do you think has the best production sound? For those unfamiliar with the concept of production, I'll define it as: all the decisions made (after the writing and general arranging of the songs) of how the song sounds on CD: such as reverb (echo), compression, fancy effects, layering of instrumentation, the decisions to add or not add overdubs that couldn't be reproduced live, and numerous other small but key decisions.
Anyone care to comment?

I would go with YWGTTM or Wood for this one (although I LOVE listening to Bargainville on headphones for the mix in "BJ")... have to vote strongly against Thornhill cause I thought the songs were way better before they got onto that record.� Don Dixon slowed down the fun uptempo songs and sped up the slow songs, making the record sound like one long dirge.� Took me about a year of not seeing the band live to get used to the sound of this record.� It's also a bit too slick and hollow sounding.� That's my main production gripe about a Fruvous record, from a non production expert who just listens to a lot of music.

Thornhill is one of the most "dry" records I can think of. "Dry" meaning very little reverb and atmosphere. You really notice it in the tambourine hits that have no "splash" to them at all. Compare it to "Fell in Love" which is drowned in reverb.

I was in Thornhill for the first time today, entirely by accident. It's just like the album: dismal, no atmosphere.

EDIT: God, I sound like an asshole. That really was a comment on the town, not the album, so much.

Well at least there is Independence Day and My Poor Generation. My Poor Generation is like an apology for the entire album.

My Poor Generation is one of my very favourite songs.

Really, I was just trying to be funny.

But the suburb of Thornhill is really, really eeeugh.

you will go to the moon Definitely. wood is produced very well for it's style, but that style is a more natural sound (which�was done very well), but i believe ywgttm requires more production and Has more production and sounds Amazing. sahara and love set fire are thick with production and sound gret, and most of the album is double tracked. all the additions to songs such as michigan militia, message, lazlo... everytime i listen to that album i'm entranced by it.

The most unique thing about YWGTTM is that super-compressed "hip hop" drum thang going on, especially in Michigan, Lazlo, and Gotta Get A Message.

At his show last month, Mike Ford called YWGTTM their best album.

yep he's said before that he believed that was their best. he said that it captured what moxy fruvous really 'was' perfectly. that was the only album he was Completely happy with.

I am not very well-versed in the lingo of good production. If somebody could give me a crash vocab course, that would be nice. :) I have an instinctual reaction when I think something is well-produced or badly produced. I think THORNHILL is too "hollow," as Angel said. Jian's The 1st six songs is waaaay over-produced. I can barely tell it's him. In Bargainville, though most of the songs are my favorite, the boys sound a little like bugs on a lot of the tracks. Maybe that's the compression . . . .?

It's basically a tie between YWGTTM and Wood. YWGTTM has a lot of production effects, which I normally don't like, but it *works,* and is so creative and wonderful. Wood is just a freakin gem in all aspects. I think their voices sound the best on it, actually.

Hey, why weren't B or C one of our choices?

I didn't include "B" because it was recorded all over the place and therefore didn't have a consistent production. I guess I could have included "C."

why didn't you include live noise! haha we could have judged how the sound engineer working at the shows did.