"Bitch's Brew" & "Bolivian Ragamuffin"

Although generally dreary, these two album tracks are not completely unlistenable. Despite "Bitch's Brew" containing a weird middle part where Steven does a bad Bob Dylan impression, and "Bolivian Ragamuffin" incorporating a Burger King jingle, both have their charms. "Brew" is the kind of tough rocker that could really give this album backbone, and "Ragamuffin" has a kind of psycho funk to it that is just not often seen. You probably can't build a whole album out of tracks like this, but at the top of their game, they could've been incorporated, with a bit of polish.

If this is as bad as it gets, then it really isn't that bad. They don't not sound like Aerosmith, which would be the worst possibility. Reviews of this album are almost reluctantly negative, with Rolling Stone saying at the time that it "almost seems to work." The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. It's not like the album was full of bad commercial decisions, it just wasn't a good point in their lives to be doing music.