The second album with BYO Records by Edmonton's SNFU and the record has received generally positive reviews since its initial release. In 1986, MMR described the material on the album as "much stronger than the tunes on their debut LP". In a retrospective review, critic Vincent Jeffries wrote for AllMusic that the record is "[c]onsidered by many to be the band's finest release" and that it "deservedly ranks high on many all-time Punk lists." But as SNFU biographer Chris Walter suggests, the album's thin and experimental sound also alienated some listeners, as the band itself would later express mixed feelings about the album's post-production mastering. Well, those are the official opinions and I don't say that it's thin and uninspired and there are some good songs on it, but the Bums is somehow too soft, you know what I mean? It doesn't hit me like the year before and so I still consider their first album is the best. Well, what do I know anyway? Fact is, it's a little different, and that usually can't harm, right?
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