"Aimless Love" is probably the mellowest, and one of the most approachable, of all of John Prine's albums.  The lyrics depart from the elliptical approach used in "Common Sense" and other albums. The tunes flow on from song to song.  My favorites are "Be My Friend Tonight", "The Oldest Baby in the World" (featured on most of Prine's compilation albums), "Unwed Fathers" (a duet with first wife Rachel Pure Prine), and the irrepressible "Bottomless Lake", which I've performed in public a couple of times.  It takes me back to my days growing up in central New York state, as Prine sings "we rented a car at the Erie Canal, but the car didn't have no brakes," and harks back to those disastrous family vacations, a la Chevy Chase.  We never fell in a bottomless lake, but we did get rear ended by a drug and weapon-bearing hit and run driver on street corner in Phoenix.  I would have enjoyed a couple more edgy tunes and lyrics, but the overall effect is still a very listenable (albeit short) record.