brendan o'brien

so right now i'm sitting here listening to rage against the machine and marvelling at their sound and it occured to me that brendan o'brien (producer/engineer) has been responsible for either producing, recording, or mixing a tonne of the great music that i spent my teens listening to

now i'm always going to love this guy cause he recorded and co-mixed 'blood sex sugar magik'. he made that album, which was recorded in a house sound fucking great and unique. one of the great qualities this album is that it sounds like no other that came out around that time, the rawness that comes from non-ideal recording situations makes this album come alive like so many of the great punk albums before it

now if you were in your teens during the 90's and you loved bands such as pearl jam, stone temple pilots, rage against the machine, the offspring, incubus, soundgarden, red hot chili peppers then you owe brendan o'brian your left testicle. this guy has some mad skills

i suggest checking out any of the pearl jam or rage against the machine albums that brendan was involved with if you want to hear the epitomy of the nineties rock sound