THE NEAL MORSE BAND: THE GRAND EXPERIMENT

BAD NEWS: There are two stinkers on this much anticipated (by me anyway) record. The title track is a bit weak (okay - truth is it's pretty bad) but the other song, "Agenda" goes way beyond bad - it's PUTRID! I'm mortified, and Neal ought to be embarrassed by this substandard composition.

HOWEVER (and here's the GOOD NEWS)...

"Waterfall" is utterly GORGEOUS - the vocal harmonies are truly sublime. As for the obligatory epic, "Alive Again" (which could just as easily have been called "Born Again") is (BEWARE: I'm gonna flagrantly violate my self-imposed "banned words" edict)... AWESOME! (I probably should have added more exclamation points).

There are other jewels to be found here, including live stuff AND... TNMB's interpretation of Jimmy Webb's classic "MacArthur Park". They did to it what YES did to Paul Simon's "America"... TIMES TEN! Outstanding job, fellas.

Please excuse my shameless display of hyperbole but... but NOTHING. Notwithstanding the two bombs I so harshly denounced, I wholeheartedly recommend "THE GRAND EXPERIMENT" and hereby award it FOUR STARS.

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