Chicago

Rock · 1970 · 14 tracks

Chicago

A sprawling double-album masterpiece where aggressive brass arrangements, psychedelic guitar freakouts, and sophisticated jazz-rock suites collide with radio-ready hooks.

It's the one where they actually rock hard and play twenty-minute jazz suites before they became a ballad band.

A restless and ambitious collision of high-art composition and street-level rock energy.

Chicago · vs · Chicago

Defiant+3.0σ

Defiant saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks

02

The Road

3:10

04

In the Country

6:36

06

Make Me Smile

3:16

07

So Much to Say, So Much to Give

1:12

11

To Be Free

1:15

12

Now More Than Ever

1:26

15

Prelude

1:10

16

A.M. Mourning

2:05

17

P.M. Mourning

1:58

18

Memories of Love

3:59

19

It Better End Soon (1st Movement)

2:33

20

It Better End Soon (2nd Movement)

3:41

21

It Better End Soon (3rd Movement)

3:18

22

It Better End Soon (4th Movement)

0:56

Moments Worth Waiting For

The seamless transition from the triumphant horns of Make Me Smile into the tender vulnerability of So Much to Say.

Terry Kath's explosive, distorted guitar solo in the middle of the jazz-inflected 25 or 6 to 4.

The haunting, flute-led tension of the It Better End Soon suite that breaks into a desperate vocal plea.

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