From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!jsm
Newsgroups: net.records
Title: Re: Record Quality
Article-I.D.: uvacs.353
Posted: Sun Dec 12 18:16:13 1982
Received: Mon Dec 13 08:42:52 1982

References: uw-june.228


     Mannheim Steamroller IS  American  Grammaphone,  therefore  it  is  no
coincidence that they record on that label.

     American Grammaphone is an audiophile label, therefore I  don't  think
that  you  should compare it to records manufactured by WEA, Columbia, etc.
When I pay $14 - $20 for an album, it had better  be  of  good  quality.  I
would  apreciate  any  response from the net on audiophile albums they have
bought that are not superior to the mass market labels.

     Anyway, back to Mannheim Steamroller, if any  one  out  there  reading
this  hasn't ever heard of them, then you are missing a real treat.  I have
never found anyone who did not like their music.  It is very  hard  to  put
there  music  into  any one particular category.  They play original pieces
with instrument combinations that are seem quite  strange  until  you  have
heard  them  (i.e  Pipe  Organ  and drum, Harpsichord, synthesizer, and Toy
Piano).  I am not going to even try to  describe  their  music,  because  I
could  never  do  it  justice.  All I can say is buy an album, whether your
favorite music is classical,jazz or electronic  rock.  If  I  had  to  rank
their  albums, This is the order I would put them in:

			#1) Fresh Aire II
			#2) Fresh Aire III
			#3) Fresh Aire IV
			#4) Fresh Aire I

		      John S. Marvin
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