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Title: I guess you can't be good ALL the time.
Review: A friend of mine once said, "Sometimes the London Symphony Orchestra isn't the London Symphony Orchestra" in reference to soundtrack work, referring to the fact (?) that the actual music you hear in the film isn't always what you get on the album that IS performed by the LSO."A Classic Case" makes me wonder if that goes for released recordings as well. While the concept of the London Symphony Orchestra doing Jethro Tull SHOULD be really, really cool, the end result is so limp it's as if one is stuck in an elevator listening to the Muzak. It's better-than-average Muzak, but it still doesn't rise above that level. The brass section is particularly pathetic.The only tracks which have any interesting qualities to them is the rendition of "Too Old for Rock n Roll; Too Young To Die" and "War Child." Every other track is lifeless and plodding. It's almost like listening to a university orchestra with an uninspired arrenger and a tired conductor.
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