BS&T's 'difficult second album', this slaughtered the debut in sales, establishing the group. Along with Chicago, BS&T showed that 'big band'-orchestrated prog-rock could attract listeners during the psychedelic era. David Clayton-Thomas's bellowing vocals, peerless musicians, songs from Laura Nyro, Cream, Billie Holiday, Eric Satie, Motown, Stevie Winwood: how could it miss? It didn't, somehow beating the far superior Abbey Road to Grammy Album of the Year for 1970. Despite that fluke (for true idiocy, check out Rolling Stone's 500 Best Albums of All Time), it's an amazing LP, never sounding better than this. 'You Made Me So Very Happy', 'Spinning Wheel'... It's a masterpiece.
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