Lyle Lovett was ranked No. 91 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the 1980s, and both Velvet and the Italian magazine Il Mucchio Selvaggio also cited it as one of the top 100 albums of the decade.
The album by Lyle Lovett was listed as No. 91 on Rolling Stone's countdown of the best albums of the 1980s, and it was also included in Velvet's and Il Mucchio Selvaggio's lists of the top 100 albums of the decade.