If a Martian landed and came up to me and asked, "What is this rock & roll I hear so much about," I would put on this album. Drums, bass, guitar, good pop hooks, lyrics all over the map but easy to sing, cool production, blues, psychedelia, hard rock, it is all here on this album. The album is so seamless. It is exactly what you want out of a great album. It has no bad songs, it is experimental, it all fits together, and it is very pop heavy. Any song on here could be a single, except for "Third Stone From the Sun", and yet it has more depth than albums like Born in the USA or Rumours.
Listening to this album in full for the first time in close to 20 years I'm struck by how much energy carries through the entire album. "Purple Haze" would be a hard song for most albums to follow, but here it seems to happen with ease as each song just jumps off the plastic.
"Third Stone" is the only part of the album I have a problem with. Oddly for experimental jazz/rock it still works on this album because it has such a seductive melody that runs throughout. I just think it's a bit long, the other songs all being about half it's length. It disrupts the flow a bit, that is of course until "Foxey Lady" starts up and then you're right back.
