“Somewhere in my small but wildly varied assortment of LPs, I have this album by English-by-way-of-Germany prog-rockers Nektar called *A Tab in the Ocean*, which has some seriously ugly cover art (a green decaying man-woman taking hits from a celestial bong on a, well... I suppose it's a tab in the ocean) and contains songs that, for all their effort to sound otherwise, can't help being pop, even w”