[5] The album was remastered and reissued by Rhino Entertainment on April 22, 2008, with 13 additional tracks and liner notes by Peter Jesperson.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, on October 22, 2021, Rhino Entertainment released a deluxe edition of the newly remastered album.

[6] In a 1982 Trouser Press review, Robert Payes described the "I'm in Trouble" single, which was taken from the album, as "(p)ower pop with the emphasis on power, roaring guitars and energy galore.

"[10] In The Boston Phoenix, Milo Miles said that "One of the gratifying twists of Sorry, Ma, Forgot To Take Out the Trash is that the Replacements are uninterested in (though not unaware of) adolescence and garage rock as pervasive, self-referential pop mythologies.

"[11] Retrospectively, AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine considered Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash to be "one of the best LPs the entire scene produced in the early '80s.