[The Horrible Esthete]

The problem with M@W is that it's diffuse and unfocused as an album, and it doesn't flow.

I really don't understand the concept of an album's "flow". I simply don't care if track 12 sounds nothing like track 1.

I'm right there with ya. I never understood why "flow" matters, unless the goal is a "concept album". If someone tries to claim that the album is worse because "Wild Mountain Honey" is preceded by "Toronto #4", then perhaps real the issue isn't that the record is "disjunct", but that the critic is obsessive-compulsive.

It's a rock album, not a Broadway musical.

To me, each song is a seperate and individual entity that has no relationship whatsoever to another, except general technical characteristics.