[5] Rew had met Peter Holsapple from American band the dB's during a visit to New York with the Soft Boys the previous year.

The B-side, "Fishing", was described as "pure Bobby Vee schmaltz right down to the crashing waves of acoustic guitars and touchy sentimental chorus."

Another contemporary review in the New York Rocker described the "Stomping All Over the World" single and its two B-sides (Nothing's Going to Change and Fighting Someone's War) as "a very mixed bag of tunes", but "highly recommended."

Deming wrote that Rew has often stood in the shadow of his lead singers (Hitchcock and Katrina Leskanich), and that The Bible of Bop reveals he's always had "the talent and the charisma to be up front.

"[2] Trouser Press wrote that Rew survived the end of the Soft Boys "to take further forays into melodious '60s folk rock and psychedelia."

Though Rew doesn't "pursue weirdness as avidly" as Soft Boys songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, Trouser Press felt that he has "a neat winner" with The Bible of Bop.