[3] Following the August 1989 release of the EP Very Metal Noise Pollution, the band made no serious attempts at further recordings until after they returned from a tour of Australia that December.

It was backed with a shorter, re-mixed version of "Preaching to the Perverted" (the original having appeared on the Very Metal Noise Pollution EP).

The single was released in various formats, some of which included a second version of "Dance", subtitled the "Feet in Heat" mix.

[3] One version (the second 12-inch vinyl single) also included a third song, "Rockahula Baby", which had appeared earlier in 1990 on the New Musical Express cover album The Last Temptation of Elvis.

The first was "X Y & Zee (Electric Sunshine Style)", backed with "Axe of Men" (and, on the 12-inch vinyl version, also with "Psychosexual").

[1] It also was the most successful single in the United States, appearing for 16 weeks on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart (peaking at No.

The 10-inch vinyl version included yet another Boilerhouse remix, plus "Another Man's Rhubarb (Good Vibes Mix)".

[11] In a contemporaneous review for Keyboard, Jim Aikin found the album to be "solidly mixed, with plenty of processed samples colliding over aggressive hip-hop grooves".

[14] In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett opined that the album was not as good as the previous This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!, but "not all that far off".

Raggett gave specific praise to the opening segue of "Moral Majority" into "Dance", as well as "X Y & Zee" (calling it "warm and wistful") and "Nightmare at 20,000 ft.".

[15] Trouser Press expressed a less positive opinion of Cure for Sanity, describing it as the "beginning of the artistic end" for the band and noting that "the absurd sloganeering is tiresome".

Nonetheless, there was specific praise for "Dance" and "Lived in Splendor" as examples of beats that "still pack a wallop".