Its vocalist and songwriter, Ron House, went on to found the much more successful band Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments.
[3][4] They released another full-length, Naked At The Buy Sell & Trade, in 1986, followed by their third such album, Sum Things Up, in 1987.
[5] In 2000, a compilation album of 50 of the band's songs from their entire career, entitled Length of Growth, 1981-1989, was released on the Old 3C label.
[6] Robert Christgau awarded two of Great Plains' studio albums B+ grades, and the other (Sum Things Up) an A−.
[7] Len Righi described Sum Things Up as "an oddball combination of punk, pop, psychedelia, folk and garage rock" and said that the band's records had improved consistently in quality over their history.