I started with the 'Best of' collection, so I did hear the single version of 'I'm a Man' and 'Beginnings', which pretty much cut out the percussion sections but left most else intact. I have the remastered II, which has the single edits of 'Make Me Smile' and '25 or 6 to 4', both of which are like WTF?!?! Absolutely ruins both.

Kath really does go hard on that guitar, and that voice works well whether crooning (Memories of Love) or screaming (damn near anything else). That Buchannan suite is really, really good. To hell with critics calling it pretentious. The 'Better End Soon' suite was great too, though maybe not as awesome as 'Liberation'. And as much flack as Cetera gets for the band's later sound (mostly, but probably not all deserved), he was a bad, bad man on that bass.

Looking forward to III and V (if just to hear Dialogue in context with everything else on the album)