I almost didn't buy this; I liked the single, which my college radio station had in heavy rotation, but... to say it was not favorably reviewed was a massive understatement. The review I remember the most started with "Here's the first overproduced Elvis Costello album," and you can imagine where it goes from there. (See the wide range of reviews here and you'll get the idea.) As it turned out, I bought it three times in different formats. This album anticipates its decade. I hear events and attitudes of the 1990s everywhere, from "Invasion Hit Parade" on politics, to "Harpies Bizarre" and "After The Fall" on romance, to "The Other Side of Summer" on our continued inability to care for and about a) the planet, b) each other, and c) everything else. And the song "All Grown Up?" There's a these to be written there, too. You can call it an "angry album" if you wish, but I find it a caustic social commentary that skewers the 1990s (from 1991) as wonderfully as Billy Joel's "The Nylon Curtain" skewered the militarism, social isolation, and political ineptitude of the decade before it (from 1982). Matter of fact, "The Nylon Curtain" wasn't a hit, either. Some albums are just too important to be hits, I guess.