The production on A Space in Time is crisp and clean, a sound quite different from the denseness of its predecessors. Many of the cuts make effective use of dynamic shifts, and the guitar solos are generally more understated than on previous outings. 1 In addition, they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200. Between 19, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. After the opener, however, the album settles back into a more relaxed mood than one would have expected from Ten Years After. Ten Years After are a British blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The leadoff track, "One of These Days," is a particularly scorching workout, featuring extended harmonica and guitar solos.
However, there are still a couple of barn-burning jams. In fact, six of the disc's ten songs are built around acoustic guitar riffs. The individual cuts are shorter, and Alvin Lee displays a broader instrumental palette than before. TYA's first album for Columbia, A Space in Time has more of a pop-oriented feel than any of their previous releases had. A few years later, Jerry Garcia asked Robert Nelson to change the soundtrack, using music from their latest album at the time, to help promote it. This was due primarily to the strength of "I'd Love to Change the World," the band's only hit single, and one of the most ubiquitous AM and FM radio cuts of the summer of 1971. A Space in Time was Ten Years After's best-selling album.
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