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Change Today?

Change Today?
T.S.O.L. - Change Today? cover.jpg
Studio album by T.S.O.L.
Released 1984
Recorded 1984 at Mad Dog Studio, Venice, California
Genre Punk rock, gothic rock
Length 29:49
Label Enigma
Producer T.S.O.L., Chris Grayson
T.S.O.L. chronology
Beneath the Shadows
(1983)Beneath the Shadows1983
Change Today?
(1984)
Revenge
(1986)Revenge1986

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.

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. Grisham cited increased violence and police presence at shows, as well as audiences looking to him for instruction, as factors in his departure.

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.


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