Final words in this thread from me on the Japanese version: I listened to Crafty Hands yesterday with the head-phones on. Must have been 20 years ago, but my memory was right: it sounds to me like a much used cassette-tape. It has short drop-outs, distortions and the pre-echo which we know from LP's when in a soft passage (or a silence between songs) the start of the next loud passage already can be heard. Maybe this version does justice to the actual LP, but not to the music which was recorded in the studio. Anyway, I couldn't listen to it much longer than three tracks. So if you want to buy this one based on this thread, be my guest, but don't be surprised when it will turn out to be a disappointment sonically. In my ears it doesn't capture the strength of Happy The Man. Go for the LP, I would say ;-)
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