"Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial

It’s an annoying recording that gets more annoying the higher the resolution of the playback system.  Unless that whole echoey bathroom with reverb thing gets you off.

I keep waiting for this thread to die but it won’t. I grew up in the ’70’s. I confess to having once owned S+G’s album-whichever one had this song on it. When I started college in the fall of ’77, the very first day I had moved into my dorm, I pitched the album out the window of my dorm room on the 20th floor. I did not want my roommates to think I was a douche. I will never forget that there were throngs of students and volunteers moving all their things into the dorm that day and this record careened in the wind like a meteor right at some hapless kid’s head. I had visions of it hitting him in the jugular and my being arrested for involuntary manslaughter. Imagine the irony of losing your life due to a flying record that has "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on it. At the last second, it missed him by inches and I immediately made a note not to try that stupid stunt again. I got rid of a Dan Fogelberg record too that day. Into a dumpster this time. And my copy of the America record that was ubiquitous, the one with "Horse with no Name" on it. But not my Peter Frampton "Frampton Comes Alive". I held onto that for a while longer. And I was a nerd myself, having every single Jethro Tull record ever released rather than just the three good ones-the earliest releases. 

Here's the best solution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNNs6Blk028

Yes...Eva was a true inspiration and a lovely person.  Gone far too soon ☹️  Her Blues Alley album has that on as well.

Paul Simon's "Graceland", also sounds very synthetic.  This is also a Roy Halee production.  I'm amazed how live concerts, even recorded over 50 years ago, sound so more musical than many studio-produced records that sold so well.  Am I crazy?