The album was released to fulfill a contractual obligation with his record label.

"Duck Rock Cheer" was the sole single released to promote the album.

Neither the album nor the single met with commercial or critical success, though "Eiffel Tower" had earlier been featured on the soundtrack to the 1984 Jerry Schatzberg film No Small Affair.

"[8] Trouser Press wrote that "the title track perverts 'Wild Thing' into a nightmarish but enjoyable mess.

"[7] The Rolling Stone Album Guide called Swamp Thing "a hellishly self-referential mess.