Why is 24KG produced so badly?

[ViscountViktor]

A lot of debate around my original post!

I must clear something up, I think my use of the word "production" was misguided, in essence I meant the distortion on Stevie's voice and assumed this came under production, but is most probably engineering.

I agree with the previous poster, listen to her voice on TISL, and then on 24KG. Considering the latter was 14 years later, it simply has has to be a problem in the recording, and although I don't want to think it was a rush job, the evidence points to it being so.

I LOVE the album, but I just wish it wasn't there.