Whats on your turntable tonight?

Going by my memory, I'm thinking a comparison may be in order to my OP/EU of this lp.?

So the Blue Oyster Cult Album - "Agents of Fortune", side 1 was fantastic. Good songs, including the classic "Don't Fear the Reaper" and the sound quality was pretty fantastic. Side 2 was just the opposite. Bad songs, flat sound. Sounded like 2 completely different albums. Funny, I've listened to the record many times, 35+ years ago, and never noticed the crappy side 2. Perhaps we never flipped the record over..........

Just arrived today via USPS, from Romania, after being ordered about a month ago via Discogs:

Elvis Costello - "All This Useless Beauty"  

Music on Vinyl, 180 gram audiophile vinyl pressing. New, sealed. Sounds great and easily superior to the OP CD I also own.

@reubent ,

Interesting about the BOC lp. Did you look at the liner notes to see if it was recorded all at once in the same studio or maybe over time at different studios? On other threads lately, some have been asking if the same mastering engineer actually mastered both sides of a particular lp.

You are brave ordering from Romania my friend. Glad it worked out.
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Just compared side 2 of TP "Into the Great Wide Open". My EU/no more than 120gr pressing out classed the 180 gr re-master in the Vol. 1 box. In a way I’m glad in that my musical memory is still working. This is the only lp out of that box that seemed less than...to me.

@bdp24,

I wanted to bring you in here because on the track "Built to Last" from the Tom Petty lp above. There is a bass drum being played. To me, it sounds like the sort of drum we would normally see in a high school band, hit by a damped drum stick. Can you hear it and tell me what kind of drum it is?

Boston  "Third Stage". Damn good record. No one really talks about though?