[6] The Wrong People remained out-of-print for many years until 2010, when it was given its first CD and digital download release by Cherry Red Records, containing nine bonus tracks.

[12] Upon its release, Derrin Schlesinger of Smash Hits said, "Although the lyrics sound a mite gloomy and doomy, the music soon whisks one up into much better spirits.

Reviewer Simon Williams described it as "chock-full of frisky rhythms, perverted guitar licks and the kind of emotional lyrical openness which terrified passing psychiatrists".

Furniture's 1986 cult classic, The Wrong People, fused new wave, jazz, blues, post-punk, alt-rock, and about a dozen other genres with some of the most poetic lyrics ever written.

Yet for all its literary qualities – its evocation of the mundane, compromise, opportunity and transience of real life – The Wrong People is a theatre of the visceral, a melodrama and gorgeous sax-soaked 1980s pop all at once.