Elsewhere, Forster blamed others for the synthetic nature of the recordings. He said, "I wanted to make the kind of record I ended up making on "Danger in the Past". I just wanted the band to be playing live, get us into a really big studio. Instead, it was one person in the studio with the rest of them playing pool. Lindy would be talking about drum machines, and her and Amanda were talking about triggering the violin to make synthesizer keyboard sounds. The only two live tracks on that album are both my songs, and I insisted on those." In 2016, Forster wrote, "I had trouble with "16 Lovers Lane" for a long time. It wasn't until the late nineties that I recognised it for what it was - a pop record."