This was clearly demonstrated in the next album 'Some Great Reward', released in 1984, that spawned a number of hits including the subversive 'Master And Servant' and 'Blasphemous Rumours'. Spurred on by condemnation from religious groups, the band were also gaining a reputation for being a 'rock 'n' roll' band in the truest sense of the term.

In the climate of the more politically and morally accepting 80's, the darker side of life that had once been confined to the seedy underground world of porn theatres and gay clubs, was rising to the surface and becoming new territory to exploit. Nowhere was this more obvious than in the US, where a once daring music scene seemed to have come to a complete standstill and was being strangled by soft rock and 'disco hell'.