 ‘The Golden Idol’ sounded heavily influenced by Bob Dylan's mid-'60s poetic approach, while ‘Killing Time’ was a put-down of unimaginative average people.” The singer fired back at his critics in the song “Eddie the Eunuch,” a bitter diatribe against certain snide elements in the press who he believed had it in for him.Although "Surreal Thing" made the country Top 10, it barely dented the "Billboard" 100, and the single “It’s Never Gonna Be the Same Again” made no impact.In his AllMusic review of the LP, William Ruhlmann praises the single and “Bad Love Story,” but argues that the “spotty quality of the songwriting” was not helped by “arrangements and performances that sometimes seemed like run-throughs and, particularly, Kristofferson's rough vocals, which were often inept.” Kristofferson biographer Stephen Miller also laments the quality of Kristofferson’s singing on the album, writing that his vocals “sounded more like a stressed foghorn than ever.” 

"All songs by Kris Kristofferson"