Ambrosia - One Eighty - White Hot Stamper

Ambrosia - One Eighty - White Hot StamperThis is smooth, rich analog at its best, easy on the ears as we like to say. This is clearly the poppier side of Ambrosia, containing as it does two of their highest charting mainstream hits, "Biggest Part of Me" (#3) and "Youre the Only Woman" (#13). I, myself, of course prefer the proggy first two albums, falling as they do into the broad category of Art Rock where my favorite albums by Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Roxy Music, Supertramp, 10cc, later

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was no major label

the size and weight are so good it just makes you want to turn your stereo up as loud as it will go

playback speeds

Check out the lineup on side one

It may be a lot of work but it sure ain't rocket science

Tubey Magical guitar tone

Having said that

I would state categorically that there is not a single rock record on the TAS list that can hold a candle to it in terms of live-rock-in-your-living room blasting power

with at least a Super Hot Stamper sonic grade on the better of each "good" side

John Punter's engineering is superb in all respects -- virtually faultless