What Are You Listening To?

[Mrrusty1]

MH that is an absolutely brilliant classic album and is very treasured in my own collection I lose myself in that music..

from my library (vinyl)



The groups debut album and a must have for any proper history. Still debatable whether the
group started as Chicago or Chicago Transit Authority. Settled by the liner notes for me in
which producer James Guercio introduces them as the latter but ends with "just call them
Chicago". Henceforth that's what they would be known as. If not for the two instrumental tracks
on this double album, it would rate as a masterpiece. One of those the dreadful Free Form
Guitar, which is just distortion to me. Doesn't bring down the seven love tracks though. Makes
it hard to pin down a favorite. One of the first groups, along with BS&T that really got me
into horns being used in rock music. No one does that blend better. Four singles released of
which Beginnings and Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is charted the highest at #7. The
album went to #17 and the following began. That intro to Someday is just fantastic.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Free Form Guitar

Best Track - Introduction

1) Introduction ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41bEZPo-J4
2) Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uy0ldI_1HA
3) Beginnings **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5aD6m7ub0
4) Questions 67 And 68 ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupeVLtXWLY
5) Listen ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHyBt7Lg5l8
6) Poem 58 **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBk6vZ0tt9U
7) Free Form Guitar *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU_HGmayd2s
8) South California Purples ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4P8QwecQ4A
9) I'm A Man ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYzxErU-UjY
10) Someday (August 29, 1968) ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERVgkQlcw-c
11) Liberation *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB6XhJfTF3s

Grade - 2.5
allmusic - 2.4