The Chameleons - A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days (Statik)

Not Lori and the Chameleons but a Manchester skinchange. This morbid ditty takes its own title at face value and proceeds to unleash the kind of down mood that could have the entire nation slashing its wrists were it to be played on daytime radio. (Max Bell, No 1, June 18, 1983)

The Chameleons - Tears (Geffen)

So-so jangly guitar effort, sweetly backed by some layered synth and anchored around a simple drum beat. Would do good business on the preposterously named US 'Rock - Disco' circuit. (Jim Reid, Record Mirror, June 28, 1986)

The Chameleons - In Shreds / Nostalgia (Statik)

Indie heroes from Manchester make a renewed attempt at chart status with the help of a Steve Lillywhite produced hard hitting rocker - all sounds a bit dated to me. "Nostalgia" is definitely the better of the two A-sides. (Diane Cross, Record Mirror, February 9, 1985)

Listeners to the John Peel Show just lurve The Chameleons - but then they would, wouldn't they? For the group sound sort of like an aggressive Cure and sing about holes in their heads. This is/was the first ever Chameleons single, re-released by "popular demand". And four years on, "In Shreds" sounds exactly like it did in the first place: sort of like an aggressive Cure . . . I just love it to death. But then I would, wouldn't I? (Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, February 14, 1985)

This was presumably named after the state you're in once you've sat through it. Starting off like The Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant", it tumbles headlong into a crazed cross between U2 and The Psychedelic Furs. The singer yelps frantically about "machinery" while the rest of the band race each other to the end of the song. I wouldn't like to get stuck in a lift with these boys. (Stuart Husband, No 1, March 2, 1985)