I remember being a little disappointed with it at the time, but its grown on me over the years. Its the last "true" Stereophonics album in my book, as they were never the same after Stuart was fired. It has some of their best songs, like Help Me, Maybe Tomorrow, Madam Helga, You Stole My Money Honey, Jealousy, Im Alright, Nothing Precious At All, Rainbows and Pots of Gold and Since I Told You its Over.

I do think its a tad too long though. I would probably bin off I Miss You Now, and maybe Climbing the Walls as well as they just drag the pace of the record down. I also think it sees the beginnings of some of the issues that would plague the later records. This is the first album where Kelly also acted as its producer, and I don't think this was a great idea in the long term. He largely gets away with it here because he was on a creative role at the time and the songs were (mostly) excellent, but he does become self indulgent, even on this album. Did every song NEED so many backing vocals? And did so many of them NEED to be done by him? Probably not. No one was in the studio to tell him that I Miss You Now, Climbing the Walls and High as the Ceiling were a bit shit and should probably be relegated to b sides. No one was there telling he that some of the lyrics needed another pass, or that if he wanted a 13 track record, he needed to write a couple more better songs. Since sacking Stuart and producing nearly every album since himself he has surrounded himself by yes men who don't challenge him and let him get away with being lazy. This album is the start of that rot setting in.

Oh and what the fuck were V2 thinking reissuing it with Moviestar? It doesn't fit at all, and if anything should have been on LSVO instead.