1. Just One Look (2:28) - This song, somewhat faster than moderate, was a hit for Doris Troy earlier and for Linda Ronstadt later; I knew about those two versions long before I knew that the Hollies sang it.
2. Look Through Any Window (2:17) - This moderate-tempoed song opens with a 6-second guitar solo. Through the windows of any building in London, one can see people smiling, little children playing, women in gowns, and cars driving along "the highways and byways."
3. Bus Stop (2:54) - The tempo is moderately fast. People meet future spouses in many different ways; the narrator of this song meets a girl at a bus stop. As he holds his umbrella over both their heads, they fall in love and resolve to get married.
4. Stop, Stop, Stop (2:49) - In this fast song, instruments include a banjo. The narrator falls madly in love with a dancer. As his blood pressure rises and sweat wets his eyebrows, he begs her to stop dancing so he can breathe, and also so he can embrace her.
5. On A Carousel (3:12) - This moderate-tempoed song features a tambourine. The narrator hopes that by riding a carousel he can catch up to the girl. But I doubt that he can, since safety rules require that riders stay in the same seat throughout the ride. And once the ride is over, she undoubtedly will start running again.
6. Carrie Ann (2:54) - This song, also with a moderate tempo, features an instrument that remotely resembles a duck quacking. When the narrator and Carrie Ann were children, they used to play a "janitor" and a "monitor," respectively, whatever that meant. Now that they're grown, he asks her what game she's playing now and if anyone can play. Could that game be love?
7. Dear Eloise (3:04) - This song starts and ends with a single verse during which the tempo is slow and the only instrument is an organ. For the rest of the song, the regular instruments play and the tempo is somewhat slower than moderate. The name of the girl to whom the narrator is singing and writing is pronounced "El-o-eez." He recently learned that the man for whom Eloise had left him has now left her. When the narrator thinks of this event as "the best thing that's happened to me," Allan's voice vibrates at the last syllable of "happened." Yet the narrator writes that he's sorry for Eloise that the other man, many years her senior, has left her. Just before the final verse, the music tones down like a decelerating turntable.
8. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (4:19) - This slow song features a harmonica. The narrator has not the slightest objection to carrying an apparently disabled man along a long, winding road. Whether they're blood brothers or the narrator just thinks of the other man as a brother in the spiritual sense, the narrator does not think of the other man as a burden.
9. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) (3:17) - The volume on this disc is fickle; turn it up a bit if you want to hear this song at an equal volume to the previous eight. Anyway, this 1972 hit is my favorite Hollies song. The tempo is moderately fast. The guitar licks slightly resemble the style of Creedence Clearwater Revival, which by this time had fallen apart. As the narrator walks along the streets of downtown Washington DC, he spots and becomes infatuated with a tall, black-dressed woman.
10. Long Dark Road (4:16) - The tempo is slightly faster than moderate. Instruments include an organ, a harmonica, and a tambourine. The narrator has to walk along an endless, unlit road now that his relationship with the girl has ended. During the chorus, each word of the title takes up a whole measure.
11. The Air That I Breathe (4:10) - Turn the volume back down for this slow song, for the chorus gets kind of loud. At least sometimes, the only two things the narrator needs are to breathe air and to love the girl to whom he's singing.
12. Another Night (3:53) - The tempo is moderate. One instrument I hear sounds, at the beginning, like a clarinet; however, during the rest of the song, it sounds more like a harmonica. It seems that every Saturday night, the narrator is "losing"--apparently at the games his girlfriend plays with him while they're out dancing.