Brave New World, Steve Miller Band, Capitol Records, 1969

I bought this record used because it had a song I liked—Space Cowboy—and the band had a dozen hits. Space Cowboy is still okay, but the rest of the record isn’t, even the cut with Paul McCartney fooling with Steve Miller. It has some redeeming moments: a call to ‘turn on your love light, let it shine on me’ (the first of the playthrough) and it combines two tropes in an amusing way—I went to see the doctor/to have my fortune read.  It even has a phrase no other record has—prayers and surveyors. But it isn’t very good.