The fan favorite “Cruel Summer” starts off the album on an all-too-familiar note. It holds up as a single, but it just isn’t representative of the other material to follow. If anything, it is the Bananarama sound of old. “Rough Justice” is the sound of Bananarama being totally revamped; as the first Bananarama song that really made me drop everything, sit up and listen, “Rough Justice” finds the female trio getting serious for a change. It has an important message about child abuse, features great instrumentation and ends up being the best track on the album. The child theme continues with the magical closing ballad, “Through A Child’s Eyes.” 
Recently re-released after being out of print for far too long, Bananarama now includes the forgotten single “The Wild Life” from the movie of the same name. This is an added bonus to an already superlative package. Also to be found is the passable yet overlong song about drug abuse, “Hot Line To Heaven,” and the single about meeting their matinee idol Robert DeNiro for the first time, “Robert DeNiro’s Waiting.” Another favorite of mine is the peppy throwback tribute to the girl groups of a bygone era, “Dream Baby.”
The two songs that could possibly be labeled as filler are the primitive sounding “King Of The Jungle” and the over-the-top “State I’m In,” which can only be described as the theme to Girls Gone Wild. It’s no wonder that one of the girls, Siobhan Fahey, would grow tired of performing such lightweight and forgettable pop fare and move on to bigger and better things in forming the far more substantial duo Shakespeare’s Sister. It also didn’t hurt when she married musical genius, David A. Stewart of Eurythmics fame.
After Siobhan left, Keren and Sarah would attempt to continue on without her, but things went pretty much downhill from that point on. With the possible exception of their No. 1 hit “Venus” in 1986, this is as good as it ever got for Bananarama.