The album was included in Robert Dimery's "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". In 1999, Jon Savage reflected in "Mojo": ""Safe as Milk" remains a towering achievement: an avant-garde pop masterpiece from the time when they had only just started to make them. Along with the first couple of Love and Mothers' albums and "The Velvet Underground and Nico", "Safe as Milk" had a huge impact in the UK, largely thanks to radio play by John Peel; don't forget that it was hardly possible to get any actual San Franciscan albums until the end of 1967."