This album was pure magic when a friend lent it to me freshman year of high school. Back then, finding music that wasn’t on local radio stations was kind of like getting your ice cubes from the South Pole, and it was no small thing to know about a great record that no one else did. I was curious if the same magic would be there when I listened to it as a much less open-minded middle aged man with a mortgage and lower back pain. I gotta say, this gave me the same tingles that it did back then. I think it’s incredibly successful for something trying to be really original. Not sure if I’d be able to get into it if I heard it for the first time today, but the only surprise on this listen was how many great songs are crammed into one album.