Rhino, for its part, has done a pretty solid job of managing the Chicago vaults. Though they haven't been able to resist the urge to continue flooding the marketplace with dumb crap like Love Songs, they did remaster the bands back catalog, reissuing it with expanded artwork and bonus tracks (at least up through Chicago 17; the label seems to have no interest in revisiting the post-Peter Cetera years). Rhino was also responsible for bringing Chicago's long-delayed lost album, Stone of Sisyphus, to market, along with Chicago XXX, the bands first album of new material in 15 years.
Still, there's no getting around the fact that Chicago is all but completely an oldies act at this point, and their increasing indifference toward new material has left Rhino with little choice but to get creative with the catalog. So they've gone back to the beginning literally by reissuing the bands first album.
Chicago Transit Authority? Yet again? Well, yes. But you've almost certainly never heard it like this.
For all the reasons I listed above, and many more, I was a little disappointed when I heard Rhino would be releasing a quadrophonic version of Chicago Transit Authority. Yeah, quad sound is cool, but there isn't a Chicago fan on the planet who hasn't heard CTA more times than he can count. Hell, I was born in 1974, became a fan of the band with Chicago 16, and I've always regarded CTA as a druggy blend of pop hooks and silly horseshit and I still don't ever need to hear Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" again.