Wood and Dean carried on for a few more years with other members, but Strange Love was a commercial disappointment and the band was eventually dropped from Enigma.

In 1999 founding members Roche, Jack Grisham, Ron Emory, and Todd Barnes would win back legal rights to the name "T.S.O.L."

[2][3] They were replaced by singer/guitarist Joe Wood and drummer Mitch Dean, and over the course of three studio albums and a live album between 1984 and 1988 the band moved away from the original lineup's hardcore punk sound in favor of gothic rock, hard rock, and glam metal.

[2][3] "At this point we wondered if we should change the name [of the band]", said Dean, "We had eaten, shit, pissed, and bled T.S.O.L.

had turned its attention to all-night parties and women in skin-tight dresses and high heels.

"[6] Strange Love ultimately became the final studio album by the hard rock/glam metal incarnation of T.S.O.L.

A compilation album, Hell and Back Together: 1984–1990, was released in 1992, but the band was dropped from Enigma Records' roster and dissolved soon after.