Writing in Observer Music Monthly, Tony Heyman commented on the title of the album, claiming "regardless of their level of education, the Stereophonics clearly have no performing qualities whatsoever.

If they are suggesting a connection between formal education and musical ability, they must be four [sic] illiterate morons who were expelled from playschool for being too thick."

Heyman launched a rant against the group, referring to the album as "musical excrement, scooped unhygienically from a poorly-maintained squat toilet in an area without adequate sanitation."

He suggested that if it wasn't laminated, the CD insert booklet could be distributed to third-world communities as toilet paper.

• Manchester United and England forward Wayne Rooney has the album's name tattooed in a design on his right forearm.