was a "farewell" album, as Hell wanted to leave music in order to do more writing (although he played some 1985 shows with a band dubbed the Thing).

[10] The compilation includes the original Heartbreakers version of "Love Comes in Spurts"; "I Live My Life" is a cover of the Fats Domino song.

[15] The New York Times determined that "Hell is a poet and lyricist whose work shares certain influences with the Beat writers more than it is influenced directly by them—the nightmare imagery and obsessive loathing that leap from the pages of Lautreamont's Maldoror, Rimbaud's vision of poetry as self-immolation, the word collages of Tristan Tzara and his performing associates in Dada at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire during World War I.

[11] Trouser Press stated: "Neither as mannered as his first LP nor as professional as his second, this collection showcases his most uninhibited singing on retreads, live takes and previously unissued material.

"[13] AllMusic wrote that "the sound quality is consistent for the most part, and the music is rough, raw, and rocking—in other words, classic Richard Hell.