Write this one down to late-night online shopping. I just checked to see when I ordered it, and sure enough it was after 10.30 at night (part of the same order as Abstract and At the Hop, incidentally).
It would have been some whim that reminded me of hearing these songs when I was 14. Giles Croft, who sold me David Gilmour in 1979, was a big fan of UFO. He'd come around to turn the lights out in our dormitory and he'd affect a Phil Mogg impersonation: "Are you ready for… Lights OUT?!?" Yes, he did.
One time I taped a UFO In Concert show off the radio. Obviously from the Hammersmith Odeon, as they changed the lyrics to "Lights out, lights out in Hammersmith".
But these fading memories are not sufficient to sustain interest through the few half-decent UFO songs — Lights Out, of course, Doctor Doctor, Only You Can Rock Me and Too Hot to Handle — let alone the dreary attempts at 70s rock ballads.
You could argue that I should have just got those tracks off iTunes, but in fact the whole album didn't cost much more than four iTunes tracks. So a better argument would be that I shouldn't have bought any of them. And on that point, I'd probably have to concede.
 MusicBrainz entry for this album
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