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Title: Consider yourself warned.
Review: Throughout most of this Ian Anderson sings, if you can call it singing, in a hoarse rasp, as if either his voice is completely shot or his throat is full of phlegm--not a pleasant, and certainly not a musical, sound. On "One Brown Mouse" he makes a different sort of unpleasant sound, one I can't really describe, a sort of nasal boing-boing thing.What happened to the sweetness of "Wondering Aloud" from "Aqualung"?I suppose it's possible Mr. Anderson was merely embarrassed by the material here. It's junior high school stuff, after all--purple prose, diatonic harmonic cliches (diatonic despite all the frantic--and musically unmotivated--key changes), and lots and lots of droning on a single tone.But as Shakespeare's King Lear puts it, O reason not the need. Just avoid the recording.
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