After the unjust failure of the keyboard-heavy , dropped , leaving them on their own to try to win back their audience. When released this, their fifth studio album, in 1983, the band's core audience approached it with caution. Fortunately, there was no need for them to worry, because the boys had sacked the keyboards and turned up their guitars again. While not exactly the savage lads of old, the music still had fire and passion, but the edges had been smoothed over. Better yet, vocalist and guitarist 's songwriting had matured, leaving the sounding positively poppy! is perfect , perhaps the best single the band has ever released. 's bed of acoustic guitars is a nice and mellow change of pace, and avoids being too sappy for the kids. Though the band still remained slightly thuggish, this was certainly an album filled with some well-written melodies, including and A pleasant surprise pops up near the beginning of the album when / ' vocalist guests, and handles the lead vocals on the groove of Certainly not the album that the hardcore punks were waiting for, but everybody needs to change as they get older, and bands are no different. Thankfully, has added nine bonus tracks, including B-sides and live material. ~ Steve Schnee