On the one hand, admire the determination and resilience: The major-label deal's a thing of the past, after several discs released straight to the used bins, yet still they soldier on with fresh recruits, chief among them curmudgeonly cheerleader Steve Albini and disco odd duck Dan the Automator. But the pragmatist has to balance the reasonably good (three tracks produced by the aforementioned twosome, and they come late in the game) with the unbearably mediocre, of which the ironically titled Special One contains plenty, including an opener that plays like the reformed misogynist's apologia and a title track that sounds like reformed REO Speedwagon. (Robin Zander equals Kevin Cronin, and anyone who insists otherwise is in a Styx cover band.) The thrills, cheap and otherwise, have diminished with time; there is no new Trick, only the same ones remanufactured for completists who should have had enough by 1982.