piggybacking off this post:

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2849537&mesg_id=2849537&listing_type=search#2849619

I know Guru handled the engineering on TMS but that's the one aspect of
it that I really didn't care for, he cleaned up 9th beats to the point of making them sound just like anything else at the time
a lot of the charm of those LB records is the way they sound, and a lot of that character was lost on the next album
The Listening sounds a lot better to me, but then again I don't equate 'clean' with 'superior'
also 9th hadn't settled in as a producer yet and the sample choices and chops weren't as uniform, making for a more varied palette of sounds on their first album
what say you?

__________________________________________
CHOP-THESE-BITCHES!!!!
------------------------------------
Garhart Ivanhoe Poppwell
Un-OK'd moderator for The Lesson and Make The Music (yes, I do's work up in here, and in your asscrease if you run foul of this