Ranked #69 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" Survey., "...As a classic of Def Jam's Rubinned-up metallic phase...`Rock The Bells' is up there with `Walk This Way', `She Watch Channel Zero' and `Rhymin & Stealin'...", 4 Stars-Excellent-"...This Is Elemental Rap... with a Now Obvious Debt to Rock Dynamics..."