[11] "Sammy Hagar Weekend" is about teenage troublemakers in Anaheim; it was added to album when the band realized they had too many serious songs.

[15] The Orlando Sentinel wrote that "guitarists Dix Deanney and Mike Martt set the stylistic tone on the album's opening tracks with ringing, rhythmic layers of electric guitars that initially recall the impact of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers.

"[1] The Gazette determined that, "rather than be locked in by the limited ambition that pervades the college-indie-band mindset, Thelonious Monster makes the sarcastic digs stick by cranking up music that is at times as good as Stones and Beatles-influenced rock gets when set firmly in a late-'80s context.

"[18] The New Haven Register noted that "the guitars are turned up, the rock 'n' roll is as straight forward as a sledgehammer and odd harmonies run rampant.

"[20] with Additional musicians: Tree, Flea, Peter Case, John Doe, Sondra Christianson, Keith Morris, Buck Clarke