After losing money on the single's promotion and its music video, it would be the point that Virgin ran out of patience with the Human League.

Susan Ann Sulley had adopted a "Supermodel" style of a very short dress and bouffant blonde hair.

[2] On its release, Gary Crossing of Record Mirror was critical of "Soundtrack to a Generation", describing it as one of "three poor songs flung together with some irritating groans and Mickey Mouse impersonations thrown in".

[3] Edwin Pouncey of New Musical Express considered it "mediocre twaddle" which "sounds like something they've sampled from the soundtrack of a John Carpenter movie which has then been sanitised for the dancefloor".

[4] David Stubbs of Melody Maker felt the song was "one of the duller, more dolorous tracks" from Romantic?