Loggins & Messina - Full Sail (Gold) (CD)

All Music Guide

This is every inch a followup to Loggins Messina, including a '50s rock roll pastiche in the style of "Your Mama Don't Dance" called "My Music" that hit number 16 as a single. Other notable material included Jim Messina's islandrock anthem "Lahaina" and one of Kenny Loggins' sensitive but generic ballads, typically called "A Love Song." But then, the charm of LM was that they could get away with something this sappy. Balance is the key to LM albums, and it's the chief talent (among many) that producer Messina brings to them. Here, as on LM's first two albums, he achieves a musical flow that's exhilarating, and the record is only denied a "finest" rating because the quality of the songwriting doesn't quite match those LPs.

- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide