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It won't be much fun, but let's do a track-by-track review:

Rest In Peace: A nice "bluegrass" style guitar riff, pretty joyful and groovy. The solos are quality as always. I don't understand why they had to use the Talk-Box though, it would be much better with normal vocals.

No Water In The Well: Who thought that it would be a great idea to let Laurie Wisefield sing? Well, it's not. The song is nothing special on it's own, Wisefield makes it worst with his singing... Let's go to the next one.

Moonshine: An OK basic riff, which kinda stand's on it's own. The rest of the song does not follow, and the vocals are not exactly great, too, although sang by the whole band this time.

She Was My Best Friend: A rather common ballad, with some good singing by Martin Turner. By this point, another basic problem of this album becomes obvious: the mixing is very bad, as the vocals are not well blended with the music (the producer is Tom Dowd). If his voice sounded more embodied to the music, the song would sound much better.

It Started In Heaven: An up-tempo song exactly at the sound of Bob Dylan, but yet again nothing special. The lyrics seem overly simplistic too.

Half' Past Lovin': Talk-Box again, at a funk-rock song that could be a Stevie Wonder composition, but not from his very best. I'd say it's my favorite song of the album, along with Rest In Peace.

Trust In You: Such a basic composition music-wise, that it reminds me of pre-recorded rhythms that you can play on your keyboards to built on them. Maybe the most flat and irrelevant song of the album. And it lasts 5:10... For what?

Say Goodbye: An interesting song music-wise, but what lyrics are those? "We can take a ride across town / Come on baby get your clothes on / All night long we 'll be so high / That's the way we 'll say goodbye". Really? Come on guys...

RATING: Impressively bad for the Wishbone Ash standards. You don't wanna turn the CD player off before it ends, but you don't wanna listen to it again either. It's a 1,5 star (bad production too...) but I don't hate it THAT much to give it 1 star, so 2.

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