Unlike most others on the board, I did not discover the Corrs in my youth while they were at their peak. Rather, I became a fan while they were on Hiatus between Home and WL, when I was already in my 40s. I think I heard songs from IB first, then FNF. I eventually made my way to BH, and I remember being very surprised when I first heard many of the songs on that album. There was a much 'heavier' sound, with more emphasis on guitar instead of keyboards. And many of the themes were quite different: TOC sounds to me like songs made by a young person falling in love for the first time (e.g., Hopelessly Addicted). By contrast, BH sounded like songs made by a middle-aged person dealing with the challenges of adult life. And the music seems to have lost much of the carefree, innocent feel I associate with TOC. Even the cover looks somber, with the band dressed in black and unsmiling.
Until WL came out, BH was my favorite Corrs album. For me the album had a theme or coherence that the previous albums did not have, so that even the songs I didn't like as much still felt like they belonged on the album (except Time Enough for Tears, which is one of my least favorite Corrs songs -- IMO they should have left off TEfT and included Miracle instead, as it fits into the themes of life and death on the album).
Once WL came out, that album became my favorite -- I love so many of the songs, and it was the first new music the band had put out since I became a fan. But I still love BH, and I think many of the songs (Angel, Summer Sunshine) are perfect examples of the Corrs strength of ambiguity -- combining apparently upbeat music with sad or dark lyrics.
Couple random notes on individual songs:
1) Yrisea noted that the verses of Humdrum have "a moody edge, but the chorus somehow feels anthemic". I think this is because the verses are in a minor key (E minor, as Yrisea observes), but then the chorus modulates to a major key. I wrote about this a long time ago:
"Incidentally, this song is a good example of a key change from a relative minor to major key. The verses have a more dark, moody sound, but the chorus sounds brighter and happier. The verse is in a minor key (E minor) and the chorus is in a major key (G major). The transition between the verse and the chorus sounds smooth despite the key change because E minor is the relative minor key to G major, meaning that the E minor scale uses the same notes as the G major scale (but in a different order). Give It All Up and Unconditional are other songs with this kind of structure."
2) The title song is one of my favorite songs by the band, and to my ears is one of the most distinct songs they have ever done, in that it sounds like no other song of theirs (IMO it sounds like it could be by Peter Gabriel, like a cousin of "In Your Eyes"). I wrote a long post on BH early on in my tenure on the board, which I offer again here since there doesn't seem to be much band news at the moment::
http://www.thecorrsclub.com/cc/display.php?mbnum=1&msgnum=1131324482
SteveW