The album cover features lead singer Robin Zander and bassist Tom Petersson on the front, with guitarist Rick Nielsen and drummer Bun E. Carlos on the back.

Popular songs from this album include the anthemic "Surrender", "Auf Wiedersehen", the title track, and a cover of the Move's "California Man".

[1] This was the second Cheap Trick album to feature Robin Zander and Tom Petersson on the front cover and Bun E. Carlos and Rick Nielsen on the back.

At the suggestion of the record company, the album was originally to be called American Standard; the cover photography was intended to play upon the secondary association with the well-known manufacturer of plumbing fixtures.

The Globe and Mail wrote that "Cheap Trick traces its ancestry from Led Zeppelin and do as well, especially on Heaven Tonight, as any band toeing that particularly outdated line can do," opining that "furious sounds proceed, none of which seem to match for energy the noises coming from the underground.