One thing I remember affectionately about this album is winning a newspaper competition by writing a review of it which said that 'if they write music this bad it is no wonder that life shows no mercy'. I also remember trying to give away my copy to my girlfriend of the time- but she thought it was so bad that she left me!! There were three excellent songs on this album- 'Skindeep', 'No mercy' and 'North winds blowing'. The rest was quite dire. I have no objection to the Stranglers evolving but this was just bland nonsense and the over-production attempted to cover up the fact that there was very little here. Easily the worst Stranglers' album till that point but unfortunately they kept spiralling into blandness after that. Gone were the musical conversations between bass, guitar and keyboards- most of this could have been done by just about any other band. Save your money and buy one of the earlier albums.