Track Listing

1. Sing A Mean Tune Kid
2. Loneliness Is Just A Word
3. What Else Can I Say
4. I Don't Want Yur Money
5. Flight 602
6. Motorboat To Mars
7. Free
8. Free Country
9. At The Sunrise
10. Happy 'Cause I'm Going Home
11. Mother
12. Lowdown
13. A Hard Risin' Mornin Without Breakfast
14. Off To Work
15. Fallin' Out
16. Dreamin' Home
17. Morning Blues Again
18. When All The Laughter Dies In Sorrow
19. Canon
20. Once Upon A Time...
21. Progress?
22. The Approaching Storm
23. Man Vs. Man: The End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11433 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered

Album Description
Remastered and repackaged edition of their 1971 album. Featuring the hit singles 'Free' and 'Lowdown' and lots more pop, rock, and psychedelic soul. Digipack in a slipcase with a 16 page booklet featuring complete lyrics and detailed liner notes by Rolling Stone contributing editor David Wild. 2002.

Customer Reviews

THE BEST...but I agree it could have been more accessible
Listening to this after 37 years was a real gas! My favorite tunes still are "The Approaching Storm" - a killer jazz/funk tune - and "Happy Cause I'm Going Home" - a masterpiece of period writing. As a producer of jazz in this lifetime, now, I can understand Bill Fleck's point. Yes, "Sing A Mean Tune, Kid", a great song, goes on FAR too long even if you love (as I do) Terry Kath. "I Don't Want Your Money" is just about right time and solo-wise. I actually like "Hour In The Shower" and enjoy Kath's humor in it. He says 'spam' so then he can access 'hash' and get away with it. I saw this band, at Bucknell University's gymnasium in February of 1971. It was awesome, though much of the audience was not hip to the stuff from the third LP. I was, however. The Carnegie Hall Concerts were recorded less than 60 days later and are close (but not as freewheeling) to what I saw.
My first night as an FM DJ, in the early 1970s, I played "The Approaching Storm" and was showered with calls asking who it was...that should tell you how underlistened to this "#2" Pop Album REALLY was at the time. For me, Chicago I-IV was all she wrote, and this is my favorite of them all. A true GEM, even with its flaws. What a band this was.

Chicago's Third Great Double Album In A Row
CHICAGO III is Chicago's third great double album in a row, after the first two spun off unintentional hits such as "Beginnings" (from CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY) and "25 Or 6 To 4" (from CHICAGO II), yet this one had no major hit singles. As I see it, that may be why this one isn't as fondly remembered as the first two, but that's also part of its appeal, as songs CAN get overplayed. There are three suites on this CD, which does make is slightly less interesting than the first two, but it shows the band trying out new sounds and styles, if not always succeeding. This was the band's last studio album to feature mostly extended pieces; after the followup, a live album, the band would concentrate on shorter songs.

Upgrade to old LP record
I have just upgraded my worn out record to a CD because this band still sounds good after over 30 years. Suggest those younger than 30 give it a try and hear how big band music really should sound.