A reworked edition of the Byrds tried to combine country and psychedelic rock on an album released 50 years ago today.

“Aloha Mama,” from the broadly disappointing ‘Chicago 13,’ is a fantastic song – until Peter Cetera starts singing.

There’s a reason why the song Chicago wrote for Sylvester Stallone’s 1978 film ‘Paradise Alley’ was left on the cutting-room floor.

The lackluster “Window Dreamin'” showed that Chicago had more serious problems than their problem-child lead guitarist.

The song itself is a good one. However, there is one big problem with Chicago’s “Till the End of Time.”

How did something co-written by Yes legend Rick Wakeman end up as a mostly forgettable song bordering on the pretentious?

As with most of this underserved LP, “Hope For Love” had potential but Chicago simply doesn’t show the devotion of their pre-Caribou records.

Another collaboration between Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe and Yes producer Jonathan Elias is torpedoed by questionable decisions.

The first two minutes of “Miracle of Life” are pure prog joy. Then, as with so much of Yes’ pieced-together 1991 album ‘Union,’ something goes wrong.

Toto’s “Kick Down the Walls” isn’t a bad song. (There are no bad Toto songs.) Still, it’s almost forgettable. Here’s what went wrong.