More of the Music of Carly Simon
This album from 1990 contains lovely music, for the most part, but the CD-like sound is just not going to cut it. I had played the album ten or twenty years and liked it just fine, but the last time we dropped the needle on it we realized the sound was unacceptably processed, especially the vocal.
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of heavily-processed recordings we like.
But for this album, covers of some of Sinatra’s most iconic songs, we felt the sound was completely wrong for the material.
Our advice: If you like the album, you might as well just buy the CD.
My Romance
By Myself / See Your Face Before Me
When Your Lover Has Gone
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
My Funny Valentine
Something Wonderful
Little Girl Blue
He Was Too Good To Me
What Has She Got
Bewitched
Danny Boy
Time After Time
We play mediocre-to-bad sounding pressings so that you don’t have to, a public service from your record-loving friends at Better Records.
You can find this one in our Hall of Shame, along with others that — in our opinion — are best avoided by audiophiles looking for hi-fidelity sound. Some of these records may have passable sonics, but we found the music less than compelling. These are also records you can safely avoid.
We also have an Audiophile Record Hall of Shame for records that were marketed to audiophiles for their putatively superior sound. If you’ve spent any time on this blog at all, you know that these records are some of the worst sounding pressings we have ever had the displeasure to play.
We routinely play them in our Hot Stamper Shootouts against the vintage records that we offer, and are often surprised at just how bad an “audiophile record” can sound and still be considered an “audiophile record.”
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