[ewallman]

Music @ Work was badly received because, to put it in the simplest terms, it's a bad album of good songs.

The problem with M@W is that it's diffuse and unfocused as an album, and it doesn't flow. You get Tiger the Lion at one end and something like Toronto #4 at the other. The listener comes out of one song with a sound in his head, and when the next song goes somewhere else entirely, his natural reaction is 'what is this shit?" So the album as a whole doesn't work.

This is a far better explanation than what I mentioned previously. The songs seem disconnected from one another.