While their subsequent chart-topping albums would contain far more ambitious songwriting and musicianship, 's 1978 debut, (translation: Outlaws of Love) is by far their most direct and straightforward release. Although , , and were all superb instrumentalists with backgrounds, it was much easier to get a record contract in late-'70s England if you were a / artist, so the band decided to mask their instrumental prowess with a set of strong, adrenaline-charged , albeit with a tinge. Some of it may have been simplistic ( ), but was already an ace songwriter, as evidenced by all-time classics like the good-girl-gone-bad tale of and a pair of brokenhearted - ditties, and But like all other albums, the lesser-known album cuts are often highlights themselves -- the frenzied rockers as well as more exotic fare like the groovy album closer and the lonesome is unquestionably one of the finest debuts to come out of the '70s movement. ~ Greg Prato