The album is something of a sister album to The Singular Adventures of The Style Council, the band's 1989 singles compilation, The album cover is a photograph showing all four members taken in 1987, an outtake from the photo session producing the US album cover to The Cost of Loving.
Today, the album is generally seen as a turning point in the band's career, giving to the sounds later explored on Confessions of a Pop Group and Modernism: A New Decade, whilst the start of the band's declining commercial and critical success.
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The initial British pressings of the album were conceived and issued as two 12" EPs in a gatefold sleeve (designed by Simon Halfon with ideas from Paul Weller).
Carry On Loving | Low-cost carrier | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (television documentary series) | Loving Annabelle | Cost of living | A Talent for Loving | Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price | Tender Loving Care | I'll Still Be Loving You | I Hate Myself for Loving You | Cost-effectiveness analysis | COST | Consider the Cost (Steve Camp album) | Consider the Cost | Baby I Need Your Loving | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace | You've Lost That Loving Feeling | Whole-life cost | Variable cost | Total cost of ownership | The Problem of Social Cost | The Cost of Loving | The Cost of Love | The Cost of Freedom | Since I've Been Loving You | On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society | Oliver Loving | Loving You's a Dirty Job But Somebody's Gotta Do It | Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It | Loving You (Matt Cardle and Melanie C song) |