3.5 - This album along with "Songs from the Big Chair" by Tears For Fears, released within 4 months of each other, both typify a certain peak-80's aesthetic for me - massive synth-driven soundscapes, somewhat Carribean-inflected rhythms and brass fills, pretentious ambient interludes. Besides "Relax", which remains a "best-of" mainstay for the era, the rest of this record shows a comically cocaine-driven hubris. Why put out a 66-minute record with THREE covers? Admittedly, the vocals on "Born to Run" provide a more refined counterpoint to Springsteen's guttural bellows. But the other covers - "War" and "San Jose" - are quite inconsequential. And why SO MUCH filler - from samples of political speeches, to extended instrumentals that trail off into nowhere? Worth the single confused listen but never again!