Three Dog Night

According to an ever-increasing pile of Levinson-Ross press releases at my right elbow, this
has been quite a summer for Three Dog Night. Their heralded Tour of Tours is nearing the
five million gross mark, with an unofficial $125,000 record set at the Pocono Speedway
Festival for roughly an hour's work. The group's recorded material, of course, continues to
sell like there's no tomorrow (all seven of their previous LPs were certified gold),... More >

Their worst-ever studio LP doesn't deserve to be called slick. It's professional and expensive, yes, but it's also a mess--oversung, overarranged, overpackaged. Their tasty material has turned into a mush of campaign-promise social consciousness, and the two songs I know in other versions sound bloated. This could be the beginning of the end. (Grade: C)