"Famous Blue Raincoat"..


...what's all the praise about?

I have a mint US Cypress copy, (I'm trying to remember if this one or the Canadian issue was praised the most). I listened to some of it today. While it is "clean & clear", it has that digital, uninvolving edge that kind of turns me off.

Being Thanksgiving and all, and since I always pull out Suzanne Vega's "Solitude Standing" this time of year, ("Fancy Poultry Parts"), I thought I'd make a comparison. They are both from the digital recording age. (SV from 87' - JW from 86').

Playing the JW, I was thinking, very critically, not really enjoying the listen, the experience, the music.

SV, now, this is a totally different listening experience! It sounds great! Nothing edgy, nothing sterile, nothing out of the ordinary. It is in fact an lp I hold in the highest regard, still.

The SV should really be the lp commanding the high prices. Thankfully it is available to us, the ones who love music, for a reasonable price.
slaw

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One of the highly over rated audiophile Lp's. Digitalis sounding to the max!

All the other J W Lp's are much better! "Shot Through the Heart" is her best.

Suzanne Vega's recordings are much better. Why she is not more popular is a mystery!
There are pure analog recorded records, from the analog era,(before 1982) that sound "screechy", similar to early digital.
@Sonictonics

There is digital sounding analog, and analog sounding digital!

The quality of the end result is not format dependent.
@Sonictonics

I remember reading when Famous Blue Raincoat came out the recording was digital to analog tape.

So use there are original master tapes, but they were digitally sourced.