Critical Response
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Mojo | (favourable) |
| PopMatters | (favourable) |
| Q | |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Rolling Stone | (favourable) |
| Uncut | (favourable) |
The album was praised highly by critics.
In 1989, it was listed at number 48 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s (despite having panned the album in a 1987 review). The staff at Pitchfork placed the album at 15 on their November 2002 list of the "Top 100 Albums of the 1980s"; Dominique Leone felt that Rundgren's production added warmth to the band's "clever-but-distant" songs. Slant Magazine listed the album at 67 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".
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