[6] Burton has recalled an early moment of realization for the band of the single's success: One day during the song's chart run, three members were at an ice cream parlour when the song came on the shop's radio.
Two teenage girls working at the parlour "went bananas" shouting "OH MY GOD!
[10] It was voted among the best singles in The Province's readers poll for 1980,[11] and the best local single in the Vancouver Sun's readers' poll for the same year;[12] Vancouver Sun critic Fiona McQuarrie likewise named it one of the best local singles of the first half of the year, writing that "Even after hearing it a thousand times on the radio, you still don't hate it—the test of a great song.
"[13] "Too Bad" was included on The Georgia Straight's 2017 list of the best 50 songs to come out of Vancouver.
[16][17] It also appeared on the multi-artist compilations Hitline (1980, K-Tel Records) and Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music Vol.