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A Horse With No Name never sounds quite as good as the rest of the songs on the album.
It was recorded after America’s debut came out in 1971 and added to later pressings starting in 1972. Unlike the rest of the album, it was not engineered by Ken Scott at Trident, but by a different engineer at Morgan Studios.
The engineer of HWNN took a different approach to the one that Ken Scott had used, and we leave it to you to decide how well that approach worked.
It doesn’t quite belong on our list of albums in which The Hit Sounds Bad, because the hit sounds good on the best pressings of the album, just not as good.
Ken Scott
America’s debut was engineered by the amazing Ken Scott, the man behind classics such as Ziggy Stardust., Honky Chateau, Crime of the Century, A Salty Dog, Magical Mystery Tour, All Things Must Pass and too many more to list.