Ranked #11 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums"-"...Raging with Metallic Distress and Great Songs...", 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the sound is rough...but most of ZEN ARCADE is genuinely listenable....one of the great American punk albums...", "...Explodes the Established Boundaries of the Hardcore Genre...", Ranked #33 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the '80s Survey., "Twice as fast and twice as wide as their peers' best work, ZEN ARCADE cracked the genre's sonic palette open.", "...Plausibly captures the sound of a heart breaking, such is the ferocity of the performances. Songwriters Grant Hart and Bob Mould push each other to the extremes of evisceration...", Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century