What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report

Nutty - Apology completely unnecessary.  You are very welcome here and I've appreciated your posts and input.  People talking about what digitally formatted music they are listening to and WHY they like it is what I hoped would happen with this thread.  BTW I'm planning to get the remastered Honky Chateau and Tumbleweed Connection from The Classic Years series.  

oblgny - Madman Across the Water as an 8th grade record review!  Well done.  Must say, you are dating ME!  8th grade woulda had to have been been The Beatles or maybe Simon & Garfunkel "Bookends".  Why the latter comes to mind is I remember our 8th grade Spanish teacher (younger guy) coming in one day with a copy of Bookends and playing the whole thing for us.  Had NOTHING to do with learning Spanish.  Based on personal experience years later, am guessing he might have been at a party the night before and had a revelation revolving around that album.   It would be a hoot to read your record review now.  Post it here!  

he's decades past relevance, and was never hip in the first place, but tumbleweed connection is unarguably a great record--just pulled it out to listen to with my jaded ex-skatepunk bride, who wholly agrees with the foregoing.
also in queue is steven wilson--hand,cannot, erase--highly recommended prog rock for people like myself that don't especially like prog rock

I got to see EJ with his original band around the time of Tumbleweed Connection (70-71), and they pleased me greatly. My interest in him soon thereafter evaporated, he appearing to me to be more of an entertainer than an artist, if you know what I mean. Nothing wrong with mere entertainment---I love ABBA!

ghosthouse...

Actually my review, or at least my attempt at a review, was for 11/17/70 not Madman Across The Water. Fortunately I have long since lost that first attempt at becoming a writer, let alone a critic.  I remember vaguely re-reading it during my high school years and feeling my skin crawl in repulsion. It was THAT awful. 

I just turned 60 late last year. Older and wiser now than ever before, I am thankful that I at least had the sense to pursue other endeavors in which I was better equipped to succeed at. 
(None of which were obvious at the time.)

Another Ralph J. Gleason I would not become!  

Staying on point...

I listen more often digitally than I do analogue simply because digital, server/player/streaming, offers an ease of use that vinyl does not.  While the tangible appreciation of vinyl playback still owns a place in my heart, either format serves me well enough to a point wherein disparaging one in favor of the other is without merit. 

I began with vinyl and it never left my setup. Even as I gravitated toward the compact disc, essentially mirroring my vinyl catalogue in a hasty embrace of the "new" format, I never had the mind, nor the ears, to find either so utterly superior to the other that one would suffer divorce from my life. 

The quality of playback through either source is woefully dependent on the quality of one's equipment - with vinyl being particularly precious regarding the chain.  It was said here earlier that it should be "all about the music", so I recently moved from a fairly admirable separates setup to one with an integrated amp, turntable, and player/server. Voila!  Easy peasey, and I've since stopped wringing my hands over the loss or gain of a few hertz here or there - if I ever could discern it audibly. 

At my gf's house we listen through a Pioneer SX-850 receiver, Pro-Ject cheap-seats turntable, and/or a Marantz CD player through Meadowlark Kestrel speakers. We've weaved our way through her truly awful collection of disco compilation lp's keeping only original artist recordings.  Fortunately we're down to about fifteen such examples.  We have done the same to her equally awful, yet far more extensive CD library of disco compilations as well.  As a means of rewarding her painful decisions resulting in a diminished library, I've been purchasing heavy-gram vinyl copies of her other favorites, Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Earth Wind And Fire.  She's also left my house with more than a few Lyle Lovetts, Lucinda Williams, Genesis, and Dave Grusin lp's. 

Spinning now on my cdp?  "Don't Tell A Soul" - The Replacements. I'm awaiting the arrival of Son Volt's new release for the turntable.