>>Side B is full of songs that sounded like album-ending songs
>>so I kept thinking "OK, THIS is the end" only to hear a new
>>song follow it.
>
>YES. This is my current nit-pick. Right now, I don't dislike
>anything on the record. I like some tunes more than others but
>I'm not mad at anything, I don't get itchy fingers to skip
>ahead. But you hit on the head: there are a lot of wrap-up
>moments here, album closers and several of them come right in
>a row. It's a fake-out but not in a good way -- it keeps me
>from sinking into it a bit more, hearing it as an album...

When I get to "Music", that's kinda when I'm thinking
I'm near the end. I can see how this might keep you from
fully sinking into the album. And honestly, at 67 minutes long,
they could have at least ended it on "One Day", and I woulda been good.

But after putting this album down for the last month and now
revisiting it, I think Mother is better than Rose In The Dark.
Rose is kinda like D's "Brown Sugar". More consistent songs, etc.
Mother is definitely more like Voodoo...songs built on groove that
kinda mold into each other.

But I had to step away from it to realize that.
Now that I'm back...I'm loving it.