personal aside: DESPERADO is their masterpiece...pair this w/elton's TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION and add 'indian sunset' and you've got the perfect cassette, methinks...

heya, edgez...i know you dig the who from reading previous threads...one of my two all-time fave albums/combo is WHOS NEXT paired with SUPERTRAMP'S CRIME OF THE CENTURY...when i taped it, i had to add 'eminence front' and 'join together w/the band' to complete the most perfect and one of the most important lps of their's and the early 70's.

and, i've reordered some more SUPERTRAMP, and, specifically, their 9 minute plus jam of 'another man's woman'...COTC is a masterpiece...

Weird. I just loaded Crime of the Century and Breakfast in America on my iPod for my flight tomorrow.

how could you NOT...i never got into 'heavy metal' much past the brilliance of this group's example...i just did not...i ventured off into jazz fusion and latin rock and, as is/was my wont, singer/songwriter...

butt, ONE, TWO, HOUSES...incredible...

did anybody see scary bobby at the NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FEST on ASX recently?

Houses of the Holy is my favorite.

hahaha...we seem to be connected a bit, my friend (old sac notwithstanding)...COC is one of the few albums that EYE was introduced to by another friend; very rare...but, it happened as i was showing my high school bud my brand new '75 superglide...and i hadn't seen him in a bit...it was basically indoor-to-outdoor muzak but it was sooo good: so powerful and potent
and impressionable, even overriding the harley event...the group basically locked themselves in a castle and created a mid-seventies masterpiece...thx, scotty, for turnin' me on (dead man)---not really...

two other rarities that i got turned onto in '72---a very poor recently married man wirkin' for $2.25 an hr. by the store mgr. after he knew my tastes...THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA (johnny mclaughlin/billy cobham) (very much heavy jazz fusion) and, the tender,
melodic, so soft hippie-romanticism (with top-grade COLUMBIA studio cats) poetry of JIMMIE SPHEERIS (rip, on his b-day, sadly)...

i hears it; i either loves or i don't...these, i do...

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to me, that's a really progressive choice as a number one pick...this was a surprise, delightfully, after the kinda weird turn on 3 (and the discharge time from the service...no strong vocals/no sense of me)...by the tme it came out i was m,arried and wondered if'n my kids would climb or swarm rocks some day...

Sounds like we have similar taste in music. At the least, there is a lot of overlap.

BTW, Tumbleweed Connection is one of my all-time favorite albums, artistically, but the production is some of the worst I've heard.

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always good to find music lovers who can share their faves...curious thou why you dislike the production? i always turn it up...

It sounds "dull" to me. Almost like it was recorded using a cheap, portable tape recorder and/or microphones you'd get with your Dell computer. I had high hopes that it was just the 8-tracks and LPs that I was listening to but even when it was released on CD it just didn't sound right to me. To the point of being distracting. Too bad, since the music is so good - in my Top Ten for the Rock Ballad category. I still enjoy listening to the album every now and then, it's just not as enjoyable as it could be.

All the rest of Sir John's albums that I've heard have had good to great production quality. Not sure why Tumbleweed Connection sounds so bad to my ears.

that's a shame you don't enjoy this seminal "western-classic" as penned by englishmen, no less, to it's full extent...i think i've kept buying the cd's as they've been remastered and "improved"...i may even have the mobil fidelity gold release thou that's never been a sonic upgrade to my ears on ANY of that company's discs---go figure...sigh...

Well, I couldn't find my CD but I did manage to find a rip (44.100 Hz/16 Bit; WAV/FLAC) I did with EAC (2 tracks show 99.9% quality, rest 100%). Folder was labeled "Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (1970) (MFSL)" so I'm assuming it's a Mobile Fidelity Sounds Labs disc but I really don't remember spending the extra $$ for a copy of this album. :)

Yep. Something just doesn't sound right. The mids and highs sound pretty good (for 1970 analog recordings) but the low end sounds "muddy" to me. I'm still sitting here tapping my feet and singing along with a sh*t-eating grin on my face. :) Lot's of good memories.

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Maybe it's just me. Or the way EJ wanted it to sound. Someone listen to the first 30 secs or so of Amoreena and see if the drum sounds weird to you.

I don't think anything on Youtube will be hi-fi, but here's the YT search results if you want to try:
Amoreena - YouTube