Is This What You Want? superstar backing musicians, saying, "they're always talkin' about who's on the album and not the album itself." Writing in "ZigZag" in July 1974, Andy Childs advised the magazine's readers: "it's worth its weight in gold, so if it's absent from your collection, add it to your shopping list of second-hand records." Greenfield and Childs both recognised Harrison's "Sour Milk Sea" as a highlight of the album. Richie Unterberger of AllMusic offers a less favourable opinion of "Is This What You Want?", describing Lomax as "a passable but unarresting singer and songwriter". Unterberger identifies the best moments as the "Beatlesque" songs
This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! "The Twilight Zone" and the Super Bowl XXII. On "Preaching to the Perverted," Clint Mansell sings "So we steal, so what? So far so good, we're Robin Hoods." "Wise Up! Sucker" contains a "sharp, mocking backing vocal" from Miles Hunt of The Wonder Stuff. One of the songs which "really taps into the heart of PWEI’s science-fiction obsession," "Inject Me" features a breakbeat and "murky" beginning, With its "shady" and "creepy" sustained narrative, it starts with what appears to be a "first-person reverie of some slacker junkie," with the song's introductory lyrics whispered by Mansell, whose voice becomes more paranoid