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After nearly 20 years, I still listen to this one frequently, and enjoy every track. Even the least proggy songs on this are recorded with such inventiveness, that they thrill this listener's ears at every playing. Sounds come floating in from all directions, only to mesh perfectly with the music.

"The Sporting Life" begins with a man's jouney into madness, and ends with a toungue-in-cheek jab at the onlookers watching his attempted suicide. Off the wall, in bad taste, but beautiful to listen to.

"Sandwiches of You" is sort of a love song, with Lol Creme's manic guitar. and Kevin Godley's inventive percussion fills highlighting the mix.

"Art School Canteen" is an homage to the duo's English art school roots. It's the most subdued song on the album, with G&C expanding on the type of overlayed and overdubbed vocals originally used on 10cc's "I'm Not In Love".

"Group Life" and "Hit Factory/Business Is Business" are both jabs at the music industry. Incredible songs that go against my theory that as soon as a band starts recording songs about how bad it is to be a musician, they should hang it up.

"Punchbag" is a heavy, almost macho song about the life of a nerd in school.

"Foreign Accents" is an instrumental piece, a sax solo over a rhythm track made up of odd musical sounds.

My life was changed when I first heard this one. i hope yours will be, too.

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