"Rolling Stone" writer Tom Moon considered that covering "such diverse works" as Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad", the Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man", Afrika Bambaataa's "Renegades of Funk" and Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" was very bold, but that the band took things further, and excecuted each with "the roaring, fearless spirit" that he thought had been missing in action since these songs were new.