This 40-years old record
seems to have passed the test of time: not that it sounds "modern"
today, but it has this 'classic' touch that we see in music made with
honesty, love and joy.
"House of Glass" is the impressive
opening track, full of tension and convincing vocals over a 13 Floor
Elevators style music, "Born In the USA" is an almost straight R'n'B
track, complete with harmonica (but it sounds a little phony and out of
place), "Once Again" and "Sometimes You Wander" are nice soft-pop tunes
(California style), "The Means" is an excellent hallucinogenic flying
into the Beatles territory, "Do You Remember" is not far from Pearls
Before Swine. "I Want To See My Baby" is a much more successful attempt
on the psyche/blues style than "Born in the USA", with a nice fuzz
guitar, reminding "Death Sound Blues" of Country Joe & The
Fish, "Lady Blue" is basically a straight rock song, besides the
psychedelic arrangement. Then we have the organ-based "Passage #17",
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