Glass Houses (album) the back cover shows Joel looking through the hole that the rock made in the glass. This alludes to the adage that "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". In 2004, the pop-culture journalist and rock critic Chuck Klosterman praised the album in an essay on Joel titled "Every Dog Must Have His Every Day, Every Drunk Must Have His Drink" from his book "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" (the title of the essay refers to a line from the "Glass Houses" song "Don't Ask Me Why"). In particular, Klosterman praised some of the more obscure tracks from the album
Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do Ray Love and produced by Brad Shapiro and Steve Alaimo for Wright's recording, which was released as a 7" single in 1968 by Alston Records—it was Wright's first release under that label. The B-side for the single was "Sweet Lovin' Daddy". "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do" peaked at number thirty-three on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, and at number fifteen on the US Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles. The song's theme was unpopular with the feminist movement, according to Andrew Hamilton from AllMusic. Dusty Springfield recorded a cover version "Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do" for her