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
Suffer This: A Compilation of Boston's Backwash up all month, crank up Suffer This...Jerkwater's cover of 'The Rose'...could be the soundtrack to Sid Vicious' eulogy"" -- "Boston Phoenix" ""Suffer This employs six bands for the purpose of exposing the teeming, festering underworld of the Boston music scene, and rubbing all its glorious excess in your face."" -- "CMJ New Music Report" Sean Slade - Engineer Suffer This: A Compilation of Boston's Backwash Suffer This: A Compilation of Boston's Backwash was a collaboration of five boston punk\post punk\noise rock bands in the late 1980s. The five bands include The Five, Hullabaloo, Slaughter Shack, Hectic Heyday and Feeding Frenzy.