It was voted number 658 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000).
The guitar part of "Taurus" is said to have influenced Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page in writing "Stairway to Heaven".
[5] Led Zeppelin opened for Spirit on an American tour in 1968, and also borrowed from "Fresh Garbage" in live performances of the song 'As Long as I Have You'.
In 2017, Audio Fidelity reissued the album as a numbered limited edition hybrid SACD.
This edition was remastered from the original 1968 stereo master tapes, which had not been commercially available since the LP release was discontinued in the 1970s.