I love the album.
Dave Kushner said that for Contraband they wrote like 50 songs and picked the best 12 or whatever, for Libertad they just recorded the first 14 songs they wrote and just went with it. He said it was a mistake, probably was.
I think the reason for the flop was that Contraband was the one of the hardest rock record of the decade if, not the hardest. Libertad is quite poprock ish.
I think the first half of the album is excellent Let It Roll-American Man. Then its hit and miss. A few harder songs. A la Do It For The Kids, Dirty Little Thing, Sucker Train Blues in there and it would have been better received.