Thoughts on the new pressing of "Bookends" lp from MFSL

How many prior releases do you have? The number of Bookend releases is ASTRONOMIC! This is dollar bin record or you can find thousands of those at Goodwill or Salvation Army that will sound better. 

Good luck with your next "annual" release maybe better luck with sibilance.

I mistakenly deleted a post above. I finished listening to my Japanese pressing. It is more vibrant, with greater inner detail. Paul’s acoustic on "Mrs. Robinson" is so clear. Going to put on a pp "360° Stereo" now.

.....this copy was a $1 find decades ago. In spite of some surface noise, it’s sounds better than the MFSL to me. The least sibilance of the three pressings. My favorite is the Japanese pressing.

My copy of Bookends (my favorite of the duo's albums) is a 2-eye Columbia, and sounds good enough. My Bridge Over Troubled Waters is the Classic Records 1999 reissue, and sounds real good.

I myself prefer Paul's first two solo albums to any of the duo's, and those sound pretty amazing. I have his first in a UK pressing, the second a US, and both in reissues mastered by Steve Hoffman and released by DCC. The musicianship on the second (There Goes Rhymin' Simon) is absolutely spectacular. The players are the legendary Swampers, formerly the house band at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals. They are also the band on Boz Scaggs debut, and all the Jerry Wexler-produced Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett albums. Jim Keltner said in an interview that he wished he played drums more like The Swamper's Roger Hawkins does. Don't we all?