 Parts of the melody of "All Dressed Up for School" would be reused by Brian Wilson in "I Just Got My Pay", an outtake from 1970's "Sunflower", which was released in 1993 on the .The chords in the opening "a capella" vocal passage would later show up in unreleased versions of "Heroes and Villains", and later in the 1980 single "Goin' On".Musicologist Philip Lambert described the track as "packed with musical invention" and said that the lyrics are "interesting" despite being "unsuitable for release in 1964."