New Blood (Blood, Sweat & Tears album) song, "Time Remembered" was recorded for this album but was not included. It later appeared on the compilation, "The Very Best of Blood, Sweat and Tears: What Goes Up!". "New Blood" was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Wounded Bird label. Writing for Allmusic, critic Ross Boissoneau wrote of the album "The band vocals on "Touch Me" and the arrangement of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" are among the highlights, but then there's Bob Dylan's "Down in the Flood" and Steve Katz's "Velvet". Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Snow Queen" almost makes up for it, with sensational solos from Dave
What Went Down you heard the compulsive title-track, aghast that these desert rock goliaths could be the same band that sounded like frivolous disco pixies just two years ago. Opening their fourth album, Yannis roaring “When I see a man I see a lion!” over its Stooges-meets-Queens fuzz throttle, it sounds like a defining statement, an arrival. They’ve mastered math rock, destroyed disco and flattened funk, now they measure hard rock in their hands like a medicine ball, and find it a comfortable weight." Ian Cohen of "Pitchfork" gave the album a generally positive review noting that, "What Went Down is the latest