The 1991 re-issue was remixed by Ocasek and bass player Darryl Jenifer.

It was the last Bad Brains album to feature only these two styles of music, as the band eventually experimented with funk, soul and heavy metal.

As Bad Brains broke up after the release of Rock for Light, it was the band's last album for three years.

Reviewing for The Village Voice in December 1983, Robert Christgau said, "More than ex-fusioneer Dr. Know on 'gits,' it's the distinctive if not exactly authoritative blackboard-screechy 'throat' of H.R.

Though this repeats five tunes from their ROIR cassette, it's definitive by virtue of its Ric Ocasek production and vinyl audio.