Spending a night out with Davis, Cousins was charmed by the label head and, despite his misgivings, returned to the studio to make the band's final album of the 1970s.

Completing one day of overdubbing, the band, much to their dismay, discovered that a 4038 microphone on top of the tapes had erased a swath of the material with the drum tracks being the most notably damaged.

[2] Mixing the album at Utopia Studios, Cousins commiserated with The Clash's Joe Strummer about the lead vocal situation.

The Clash were in the next studio recording Give 'Em Enough Rope; as it turned out, producer Sandy Pearlman was as much of a problem to work with as Lesser.

The second disc included the audio from the band's "BBC Sight and Sound" appearance along with a DVD of the same performance.