In retrospect, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome To The Pleasuredome is the ultimate example of '80s production excess, an album where the songs don't even exist except as a framework for Trevor Horn to work out every utterly over the top production idea he ever had. Except, that is, for "Relax." Granted, even "Relax" isn't so much a song as it is a chant over a bass line, but it's an insistent chant that gets stuck in your head immediately, and it's an all-time mother of a bass line. Like the best Gary Glitter hits, there's just something so cheerfully and pointedly simplistic about "Relax" that it's next to impossible not to love. In keeping with ZTT Records' post- Malcolm McLaren philosophy of gleefully exploiting the consumer, "Relax" was released over and over between October 1983 and early 1985 in various combinations of new artwork, mixes and b-sides, but the simple, straightforward US single mix is probably the best of the lot.