1970's

Jan,

Cool for you! I really hope you enjoy them. I do often, including listening to the live record via my iPod shuffle when I travel. I always get off the plane in a good mood....

Happy listening,

TIC

Lots of great music in those days. Boston, Heart, Foreigner, The Kinks, Robin Trower, Alan Parsons Project, Mountain, Ted Nugent, Nazareth, Van Halen. Man, excellent bands, still are!

With regard to good sonics...

The early Elton John UNi pressings I have are exceptional. I don't know what happened when the name changed to MCA but those later pressings and releases are not as good.

Early 70s Warner Bros tend to be very good. I'm especially fond of Seals & Crofts' "Diamond Girl" because I like the album but also because the sound is so good. America's Lps were very well-recorded also.

And of course, Steely Dan and 10cc.

Oh, and Gerry Rafferty "City to City" originals are very good.

>>I don't know what happened when the name changed to MCA but those later pressings and releases are not as good.<<

That's not correct.

An original pressing of Captain Fantastic is the consummate Elton John album sonically.

Capt. Fantastic does sound good as does Yellow Brick Road, both originally released on MCA.

However, it is a fact that when MCA took over, the releases that had been originally released on UNI didn't sound nearly as good when re-issued by MCA. Could be because they were not original pressings. UNI was known for exceptional sound quality. I'm not a real fan of Neil Diamond but the original UNI pressings of Stones and Moods are sonically excellent, and the music is good on these 2 albums.