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Change Today?
''Change Today?'' is the third studio album by the American rock band T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty), released in 1984 through Enigma Records. It was the band's first album with singer/guitarist Joe Wood and drummer Mitch Dean, replacing founding members Jack Grisham and Todd Barnes who had left the band in late 1983. The album was recorded using money loaned to T.S.O.L. by the Dead Kennedys, and found the new incarnation of the band moving away from the hardcore punk associations of the original lineup in favor of a traditional rock and gothic rock sound. ''Change Today?'' was reissued in 1999 through the Enigma subsidiary Restless Records, adding four tracks from the recording sessions that had been left off the original album.
==Background and recording==
On their 1983 album ''Beneath the Shadows'', T.S.O.L. had moved away from hardcore punk, adding keyboards to their lineup and shifting in a gothic rock direction in the vein of The Damned and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Though the album received positive reviews from critics, it was largely rejected by their hardcore fanbase.〔〔 In late 1983 singer Jack Grisham, drummer Todd Barnes, and keyboardist Greg Kuehn all left the band.〔Blush, pp. 95–96.〕 Grisham cited increased violence and police presence at shows, as well as audiences looking to him for instruction, as factors in his departure.〔Blush, p. 95.〕
Guitarist Ron Emory and bassist Mike Roche continued on as T.S.O.L., assembling a new lineup in February 1984 that included drummer Mitch Dean, formerly of The Joneses, and singer/guitarist Joe Wood (Wood later married Grisham's sister).〔〔 The Dead Kennedys loaned the group their van to tour the United States.〔 They began to write new material that reflected the growing British gothic rock genre they admired, coming up with 20–30 songs.〔〔 However, they faced a lack of interest from record labels in financing a recording session.〔 The Dead Kennedys again assisted the band, loaning them money for studio time.〔
Over the course of four nights at Mad Dog Studio in Venice, California T.S.O.L. recorded their new songs with recording engineer Stuart Schanwetter and producer Chris Grayson.〔 The tracks were mastered by Eddy Schreyer, and the band chose ten to comprise ''Change Today?'', which was picked up for release by Enigma Records.〔〔 The group toured constantly in the two months leading up to its release, playing nine of the album's ten songs in their set.〔 "We would leave out 'Flowers by the Door, recalled Dean, "because we thought it was weak and it just barely made it onto the album. Once the record was released it became the most popular song from ''Change Today?'', which goes to show that sometimes the artists are too close to the music and basically don't know shit."〔 They continued to tour in support of the album for almost two years on small budgets, making –25 a night and staying at friends' houses or packing the entire band and crew into a single hotel room.〔
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