For the 1985 US release,the album was remixed and strings were added to "When Blood Runs Cold". The US version omitted "Fresh Flesh" and replaced it with "S.F. &T.",the B-side of the "Murder Style" 12" single.[6]
Background
In 1985,singer Stiv Bators spoke on the album's musical direction,saying:"When we first got together it was a nice mixture of our different personalities. We didn't know what we were supposed to sound like,so we more or less discovered ourselves. On the second album we discovered various different styles we could do,but not in a unified direction. Now we have finally settled in a direction."[7]
Initially,the band felt very stimulated playing,writing and recording together. Their first two self-produced albums went "really,really well," according to guitarist Brian James,but Method to Our Madness was more of a struggle. Furthermore,the band's record company,I.R.S.,wanted to use an outside producer,because the band was "losing its dynamic a bit," said James in 2007.[8]
AllMusic's Bill Cassel wrote that The Method to Our Madness sounds more like a debut album,with the band "bursting with energy" and with a much rawer production than on their first two albums. He noted that "the aggression level stays pretty high,dipping only for a couple of ballads."[1] Ira Robbins of Trouser Press described the album as a cross between The Stooges' Raw Power and Billy Idol's Rebel Yell. He called it "the band's least distinctive - but most popular-sounding - record."[13] In his Encyclopedia of Popular Music,Colin Larkin felt that the album "revealed a band treading water with stifled heavy rock routines."[11]
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