"Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial

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?