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was
's last real album (until their 1999 reunion with
), after which the band collapsed in legal problems and solo aspirations.
was only made because they still owed
an album on their contract, and it sounds like the obligatory record it was.
(the album's only U.S. singles chart entry and, in fact, the only song released as a single in the U.S.) was a try at remaking
while
tried to re-create at least the
section of
which made the U.K. Top 40, was a
effort in the style of
and one of two somewhat autobiographical
lyrics, along with
(
wrote all the album's words except for those to keyboard player
's
and the cover of
' 1967 hit
which was written by
.)
had been intended as the theme song for the 1981
film, but rejected (rightly) in favor of a competing entry by
and
that went on to become a Top Five hit for
. The rest of the material was equally second-rate, consisting of
tracks with the barest of melodies, and lyrics that ranged from impenetrable (
) to incoherent (the science fiction epic
which alternated recited and sung sections having something to do with a spaceship race).
was always a band with ideas -- musical, lyrical, and visual -- but
found them running short conceptually as well practically. It was a disappointing end. ~ William Ruhlmann