With the strongest songwriting and arrangments, not to mention fiery playing, since Audiovisions, this album is an absolute knockout.  Oddly, my favorite song is the opener, I Can Fly. Some people feel it's the weakest,  but I don't; perhaps this is due to my prog proclivities, as I Can Fly is  the most "prog" song on the album.  Obviously, if Steve Walsh's  "mature" voice irks you, then this album will be hard to listen  to.  However, I find his voice here to be really shining, using its ragged  edges to good effect.  David Ragsdale, violinist/guitarist, co-wrote some  of the tunes with Walsh, and Rags gets the MVP here for his playing, fluid  and perfect throughout.  Walsh wrote the bulk of the songs, and they're  some of the best ever. The weakest song, quite tellingly, IMHO, is Cold  Grey Morning, a "token" contribution from Kerry Livgren, weak in  conception but given at least *some* life by the band's arrangement and  their excellent long-time producer's input (his name escapes me, shame on  me!)....