But unless they´re saving the army of Candy Children from a deficiency of Bad Company, tunes like ¨You Don´t Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You´re Told)¨ and ¨Effect & Cause¨ don´t reinvent the wheel so much as hastily retread it. Owing much to young Ozzy (¨Icky Thump¨), old Ozzy (¨Little Cream Soda¨), and Humble Pie (¨I´m Slowly Turning Into You¨), the rest of Thump´s character seems just as lazily borrowed. What´s worse, the scraps of originality -- the bullfighting, trumpet-backed fanfare of ¨Conquest,¨ and the two-part bagpipe jig ¨Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn/St. Andrew (The Battle Is in the Air)¨ -- are simply absurd.
Which leaves ¨Rag and Bone,¨ a half-song/half-skit wherein Meg and Jack talk about ransacking a vast, cluttered room in a sprawling mansion. They don´t notice that they´re still standing in the same little room they once built, but it´s just become too icky to recognize. Oh, well.
