Sunday Music: Chicago II

Album Title: Chicago II

Why I Bought It: At allyra's urging.

What I Like (Happy): "Make Me Smile". It does. What else is there to say? Honorable Mention: "Wake Up Sunshine".

What I Like (Pensive): "Colour My World". A mellow meditation on love, and a lovely song.

What I Like (Quirky): "25 or 6 to 4". A song about nothing, but a frisky one. Making a song about trying to make a song....

What I Like (Appeal): "Where Do We Go From Here". A fair number of Chicago's early songs were political in nature; this is, to my mind, one of the best of these.

Overall: Although divided into twenty-five cuts, this album actually consists of a small number of long (sometimes very long) pieces; "Make Me Smile" and "Colour My World", for instance, are part of a single composition. That makes it a little difficult to evaluate overall - not least because, though I like those two songs, other parts of that extended piece don't appeal to me at all. Still, there's enough enjoyable stuff here to make it worth listening to.

Dream

Peculiar dream this morning. Three or four small but unfriendly dinosaurs had gotten into the house; I was chasing them with a hammer, trying to whack them on the head. One of them escaped through the doggie door into the garage; I was lurking by the door, hoping to coax it into sticking its head back through so I could clobber it. I don't remember what the dogs were doing during all this, but I know they were around.