TALK

With three really great songs and four mediocre ones, this album gets 3 stars from me. The Calling, I am Waiting, and Endless Dream are all splendid. Endless Dream reminds me of the song "Crisis" by Mike Oldfied - it is so complete and perfect in and of itself. With a great "story line", a beginning, middle, and ending, it could be a stand-alone album. Actually, if you took these three tracks and put them off by themselves, you would have a 5 STAR album! If you took the middle bits, tracks 3,4,5, & 6, you would end up with a one or two star album. Those songs are colorless and souless. But the sound of the album is very '90s, it wont hold up well over time. That said, the boys are in fine form on their instruments - as always - and Jon's voice continues to amaze me.