[5][1] "The League of Bald-Headed Men", identified by Simon Reynolds as a "diatribe against gerontocracy", has a vaguely similar riff to Led Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop", although Smith stated that he had never heard the band's music.

The first disc followed the original CD album track order, while the second added B-sides, demos, alternate versions and radio sessions.

AllMusic's Ned Raggett called it "a winner and a half" and "one of the band's most playful yet sharp-edged releases", picking out "Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room" as a highlight.

[9] Jim Sullivan for The Boston Globe called it "10 tracks of caustic wit set to backing music that swirls one moment and grinds the next".

[21] Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post stated "the album continues the swaggeringly uncompromising and hopelessly unmarketable mix of Craig Scanlon's scratchy guitar, bassist Stephen Hanley and drummer Simon Wolstencroft's loping thump, and Smith's caustic and cryptic, cut-up and spit-out poetry.