I seriously doubt Meat is consulted much if at all when re-issues or compilations are done. For one thing he's too busy making new stuff and doing shows to spend precious time on an 80's album re-issue. Especially if the stories are correct that what Frank Farian did with the tracks did not sit well with Meat (purely rumor and speculation) but I always found it interesting that when played live (and most of the songs were at some point) they had much more rock style arrangements as one would expect. I believe the live versions are likely more what the album was expected to sound like.
It has that seriously 80's sound and I haven't given it a spin in years.
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