was 's last real album (until their 1999 reunion with ), after which the band collapsed in legal problems and solo aspirations. was only made because they still owed an album on their contract, and it sounds like the obligatory record it was. (the album's only U.S. singles chart entry and, in fact, the only song released as a single in the U.S.) was a try at remaking while tried to re-create at least the section of which made the U.K. Top 40, was a effort in the style of and one of two somewhat autobiographical lyrics, along with ( wrote all the album's words except for those to keyboard player 's and the cover of ' 1967 hit which was written by .) had been intended as the theme song for the 1981 film, but rejected (rightly) in favor of a competing entry by and that went on to become a Top Five hit for . The rest of the material was equally second-rate, consisting of tracks with the barest of melodies, and lyrics that ranged from impenetrable ( ) to incoherent (the science fiction epic which alternated recited and sung sections having something to do with a spaceship race). was always a band with ideas -- musical, lyrical, and visual -- but found them running short conceptually as well practically. It was a disappointing end. ~ William Ruhlmann