说这张专辑划时代，是因为作为日后著名的独立厂牌４ＡＤ开山之作的ＢＵＲＮＩＮＧ　ＢＬＵＥ　ＳＯＵＬ开启了独立之声的大门．ＴＨＥ　ＴＨＥ名字怪，其实只是ＭＡＴＴ　ＪＯＨＮＳＯＮ一人乐队，ＭＡＴＴ是个怪才．发行这张专辑时他才１９岁．

Infected was The The's second album (if one excludes Burning Blue Soul and The Pornography Of Despair, which was never officially released), released in 1986.
It is reputed that the album used 67 different musicians and 3 producers. The money lavished on it and its companion full-length video seemed at the time to be extravagant for an obscure band.[citation needed]
Many of the tracks carried on with Johnson's main topics of his feeling of alienation from society as all whole and the melancholy that this generates in young males. However around this time Johnson was becoming aware of "World Issues" or the culture clash between the West and Islam. The song "Sweet Bird of Truth" is about a pilot trying to save his plane whilst flying over Arabia and was released just prior to Reagan's 1986 Bombing of Libya.
It included the UK hit singles:
"Heartland" - reached No. 29 (UK) in August 1986
"Infected" - reached No. 48 (UK) in October 1986
"Slow Train to Dawn" - reached No. 64 (UK) in January 1987; Matt Johnson's vocals accompanied by Neneh Cherry
"Sweet Bird of Truth" - reached No. 55 (UK) in May 1987; Matt Johnson's vocals accompanied by Anna Domino
In 2000 Q magazine placed Infected at number 99 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

1979年乐队成立于英国，实际上是歌手兼词曲作者Matt Johnson的代号，Matt Johnson是一个多才多艺的艺术家，从流行舞曲到乡村音乐都有涉及，他从小就接受摇滚乐的熏陶，在11岁时就组建过乐队，在1979年他于合成器乐手Keith Laws组建了The The 的雏形并在4AD公司旗下发表了处女作，后转签Epic公司。(

这是传奇乐队The The离开4AD加盟Epic后的首张专辑，Matt Johnson摒弃了在4AD的Gothic Rock风格，而变成当时最为风光的New Wave，只有在同名歌曲Soul Mining中能找到些许4AD的影子，同时这也是The The后来转向后朋的暗示。这张专辑后The The脱离了地下的身份，一跃成为英伦炙手可热的乐队。这张专辑作为The The销量最好的专辑，被不停的再版再再版，经典性可见一斑了……

1979年乐队成立于英国，实际上是歌手兼词曲作者Matt Johnson的代号，Matt Johnson是一个多才多艺的艺术家，从流行舞曲到乡村音乐都有涉及，他从小就接受摇滚乐的熏陶，在11岁时就组建过乐队，在1979年他于合成器乐手Keith Laws组建了The The 的雏形并在4AD公司旗下发表了处女作，后转签Epic公司