Phil gets way too much of the blame for the band going into a more mainstream direction, they were already on that path before Phil even started contributing his own songs (which started with Duke) and if anything it was was Mike who pushed them in that direction, he was the one who penned Your Own Special Way and Follow You Follow Me and those were the real turning points for the band.
Anyway ATTWT is an underrated one, even the band seems to be ashamed of it and I don't understand why, it's not one of their top tier works by any means but it's hardly a disaster, I really like The Lady Lies in particular.
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