[1] AllMusic also said that "Sweet Revenge" lifted it's melody from the Grass Roots' song "Things I Should Have Said".

[1] The website called the song "Pony Express" "a strange amalgam of '60s out-of-the-garage/heading-toward-stadiums riff rock", saying that it borrowed it's melody from Deep Purple's "Highway Star", and said that "Ain't It the Truth" was a piano boogie, comparing it to "Jumpin' Jack Flash".

[1] AllMusic says that "Rot Gut" sounds like "Joe Perry emulating Jeff Beck".

[1] "Below the Belt" contains keyboard and flute instrumentation played by Gabe Magno; AllMusic compared the song to the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years from Home", and called "Cannon Balls" a "heavy vocal progressive rocker".

[1] AllMusic described the Call of the Wild album as "Ted Nugent going through another mutation, but shows him as more diverse and adventurous than he sometimes gets credit for".