 Eight different mixes of "Cell 151" were produced and played back to management at Charisma.Hackett found the experience unpleasant and compared it to an audition for winning the support of a label.Hackett looked back on the album and rated "Highly Strung" as a fragmented album, "possibly falling into two halves of the song type and the blowing type", with "Camino Royale" being an example song that had more drive.