However, in a few European countries, the Netherlands, Austria, Yugoslavia and Greece, "Touch Me, Touch Me" was released with the B-side "Nose for Trouble", taken from the band's debut album Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.

This led writers Ken Howard and Alain Blaikley to become "aware of the fast movement in the pop business again" and that "their previously successful beat-driven style was worn out".

[4] Reviewing for Record Mirror, Peter Jones described "Touch Me, Touch Me" as the band's "sixth hit in a row" and "a change of approach, too, but the same instant impact, with good lyrics and a commercial driving beat".

[5] In Melody Maker, the song was described as "not such a smash as "Bend It", but it contains all the usual Dave Dee ingredients, i.e. a somewhat suggestive title, a drum beat that sounds like an asthmatic dog barking, soaring harmonies and a full stop at the end that sounds as if the recording engineer had been shot through the head and fallen off his controls".

[6] However, Penny Valentine for Disc was less impressed, writing that "this record just goes to prove that every so often a golden goose can lay a dud egg" and that it lacks "that certain hit something".