Issued on CD by Alias Records, it anthologizes the band's debut album, most of the songs from two subsequent EPs, and one rare single.

In 1983, the group released the six-song EP Pointed Accounts of People You Know, recorded at Samurai Sound Studio, which was co-owned by Gill.

All of the material from Blaze of Glory and Pointed Accounts, except for "The Young Drug" and "Stupid Heart," was remixed in 1990 by Miller and Dave Wellhausen.

[3] In the 2002 book All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul, reviewer Stewart Mason cited the "winsome" song "Penny, Things Won't," and the "sneering rocker" "Metal and Glass Exact," naming them as examples of "stellar material" that originally appeared on the Pointed Accounts EP.

[3] "Dead Center," a rarity from a promotional single, was distinguished by a "freaky opening" which featured "layered voices, odd sounds, and snatches of bandmember interviews" that foreshadowed the experimentalism of the band's 1987 double album Lolita Nation.