The album contains the single "Spoon", which charted in the Top 10 in Germany after being used as the theme song to the German television mini-series Das Messer [de] (1971).

Ege Bamyası has received critical acclaim, praised for skilful fusion of experimental music, electronic sounds, and avant-funk.

Some of those musicians (e.g. Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, The Orb, Bruce Gilbert of Wire, and System 7) participated in the Can tribute remix album Sacrilege (1997).

Hildegard Schmidt, Can's manager, outfitted the studio with fifteen hundred soundproofing seagrass mattresses bought from army barracks at Cologne-Ossendorf.

[6] Irmin Schmidt, previously using two Farfisa organs, acquired a complex effects unit custom-built by Swiss engineer Hermi Hogg and dubbed the "Alpha 77".

Alpha 77 allowed "far greater degrees of spontaneity in the way Schmidt handled his synthesizers", a heavy unit incorporating multiple switches and tape loops.

[8] "Spoon" rapidly climbed the German charts, reaching #6, and sold 300,000 copies,[9] inspiring Can to throw a free concert "to give them a taste of what they had already been brewing up in Weilerswist".

[12] The success of "Spoon" built momentum for Can, and Siggi Loch at United Artists pushed them to come up with a new album under a strict June deadline.

[12] "Spoon", "Vitamin C", and "I'm So Green", previously recorded singles, were added to make up for a shortfall in material, the inclusion which the band hadn't originally planned.

Melody Maker wrote in a contemporary review that "Can are without doubt the most talented and most consistent experimental rock band in Europe, England included.

[28][29] NME deputy editor Ian MacDonald reviewed the album in a less favorable light, writing that Can, "a unique band of intellectuals struggling to make people's music in a prevailing anti-cerebral climate and epitomize a central contradiction of German rock.

"[30] In contemporary review, PopMatters characterized the album as "every bit as compact and tetchy as its predecessor was epic and spacey," calling it "a masterful piece of psychedelic rock fused with tightly wound funk.

"[3] Encyclopedia of Popular Music described Ege Bamyası as a major step in the band's development "from the edgy experimentalism of their earlier albums to the softer ambience of their later work.

[41] In February 1999, NME magazine announced "Can Forgery Series", a Can tribute album set for release in Spring 2000, would feature "I'm So Green" song covered by Beck.

[45] On 1 December 2012, Stephen Malkmus played Ege Bamyası in its entirety at WEEK-END Festival in Cologne, marking the album's 40th anniversary.

[50] In addition to Das Messer (1971), "Spoon" also appeared in the soundtrack to 2002 film Morvern Callar, while "I'm So Green" was used in the 2020 documentary Spaceship Earth.