Yeah, and then the mood is broken by dumb lyrics". Music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a C+ rating, stating "there are little problems like lyrics that reduce serious politics to rhetoric, singing that makes rhetoric sound lurid, and the way the manic eccentricity of this duo's live performance turns to silliness on record" "Rolling Stone" also gave the album a negative review, referring to the album as "absolutely puerile" and Alan Vega's vocals as "nothing but arrogance and wholesale insensibility". In 2013, "Rolling Stone" magazine placed "Suicide" on their list of the best 500 albums of all time at 441. Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed the album at number 39 on their list of best albums of the 1970s. Online music database AllMusic gave the album four and a half stars out of five, opining that the album was "Proof that punk was more about attitude than a raw, guitar-driven sound, Suicide's self-titled debut set the duo apart from the rest of the style's self-proclaimed outsiders." "Spin" gave the album a ten out of ten rating, describing the album as "beyond classic" and that "no one has ever come close to replicating its monolithic vibe." The album was influential in the development of many musical genres, including post-punk, synthpop and industrial rock. Tony Fletcher wrote in "All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927–77" stated would "in its own way", become as influential as other acclaimed punk albums such as "Horses", "Ramones" and "Marquee Moon". in 2017 Henry Rollins, singer for Black Flag and Rollins Band, described the song "Frankie Teardrop" as "the single most intense song I've ever heard in my life". Songs from the album have been featured in various forms of media since the album's initial release. Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder contacted Red Star to get the rights for the song "Frankie Teardrop" for his film "In a Year of 13 Moons". The song is featured during a party scene. "Cheree" was used by director Edo Bertoglio for his film "Downtown 81", a film shot in the early 1980s but not completed until 1999. Several music artists and groups have covered songs from "Suicide". The American group the Fleshtones recorded a cover of "Rocket U.S.A." for their debut album "Blast Off!".