[2] Despite a lack of commercial success, the Paley Brothers achieved an underground cult following through their performances at CBGB[2] while also touring extensively, opening for acts ranging from Shaun Cassidy to the Patti Smith Group.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine described them as "perhaps the greatest example of a band that, by nearly every measure, should've been stars.

The album was then reissued in a 12-song version, deleting one song from the original album and adding two more from the EP plus a single recorded by the Paley Brothers and the Ramones, another Sire Records group—a cover of the Ritchie Valens song "Come On Let's Go", which was also included on the Ramones' Rock 'n' Roll High School soundtrack.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1978 and Rock 'n' Roll High School in 1979.

Andy went on the road with Patti Smith's band and got into production work; I went and sailed around the world.