Bloggerhythms

Chicago has taken some large critical hits over the years as their artistic goals became secondary to making music that would sell a lot of records. In the 80s they lived and died with power ballads, the horns almost became intruders to the band’s record company, and their best composer, Robert Lamm, was told he would never sing lead again on a Chicago single. (However he does sing lead on "Feel," the band’s first single from this new album.) The band eventually rebelled, which resulted in their still unreleased "let’s break the mold" album, Stone Of Sisyphus , recorded in 1993. Warner Brothers hated SOS so Chicago and the record company parted ways. Sadly, with Chicago XXX , the band seems to have returned to the music they were rebelling against with Jason Scheff, their bass playing tenor, leading the way. I never thought I would miss Peter Cetera. While he possesses a very elastic tenor voice, and he played some very cool bass for Chicago in his early year...