[4] The next two singles, a cover of the Small Faces "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" and "I Can't Wait" also flopped.

[2] Reviewing the album for Record Mirror, Bev Briggs wrote "Three things to get your name in lights – expertise, exploitation or experimentation.

"[3] Reviewing retrospectively for AllMusic, Dave Thompson described The Jolt as "one of the few bands who not only straddled the divide between classic punk and that more specialist sound, they were also the only ones who could give label- (and genre-) mates a run for their money."

But that "by the time of their self-titled debut album, however, the Jolt were already consigned to dwell in the Jam's lengthening shadow, a fate that the band themselves seemed to encourage.

The B-side to Jolt's final single, "Maybe Tonight," the song was written for the band by the Jam man himself.

Noisy, exuberant, eminently danceable and absolutely exhilarating, Jolt is the sound of mod at its most potently creative, a record that could have been made in 1965, but was certainly remixed in 1978, to take into account all that had happened since then.