The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste for the album. Bill Rieflin and Chris Connelly instead attributed the album's sound to the band's interest in technology. For pre-production, Rieflin said he and Barker watched films for a month, sampling anything that caught their interest. Instead of writing music, they all improvised individually, rarely collaborating with each other. Connelly compared it to exquisite corpse, a Surrealist technique in which an artistic work is created collaboratively without any of the participants having knowledge of the others' contribution. Rieflin cited "So What" as the only track to feature two musicians in the studio at the same time. After playing with
This Is Not Retro – This Is the Eighties Up to Date and heavily dismissed in the recent past, and lately instead abused in the other direction, especially since when, in 1998, the so-called 'Eighties Revival' started, which saw numerous acts of the time come back to the scenes, often, but not necessarily, obtaining little or no success at all, above all as concerns the try on their part to present new songs, possibly very different, as for musical genre, to that those same acts were mostly famous for. N.B. (*) marks those tracks which are commercially available here for the very first time. This Is Not Retro – This Is the