Rolling Stone (p.85) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] captures the perfectly turned punk-pop bravado, the bleeding-heart letters-in-a-bottle, and the proud junk food."

Rolling Stone (11/91) - Ranked #15 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The 80's" survey.

Rolling Stone (9/19/02, p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The great teenage f***-up record of the Eighties..."

Q (6/93, p.120) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...It was Westerberg's most mature songwriting so far, and his band's tightest playing. The boyish tomfoolery is still there....Best of all is 'Unsatisfied,' a yearning evocation of adolescent dissatisfaction..."

Q (10/95, p.46) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...LET IT BE is their finest work. No American alternative act made a better album in 1984..."

Uncut (1/03, p.97) - Included in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year"

Uncut (12/02, p.162) - "...One of the most awesome wedges of wild and dangerous rock 'n' roll ever committed to disc..."

Vibe (12/99, p.158) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Q (Magazine) (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he quantum leap in Westerberg's self-confidence in delivering such emotionally bruised material as 'Unsatisfied' and 'Answering Machine' ensures the record's indelible impact."

Mojo (Publisher) (10/02, p.115) - "...A classic of the decade..."

NME (Magazine) (4/23/93, p.30) - 8 out of 10 - "...LET IT BE [is] elegiac, quietly tragic [and] romantically bombed-out....Healthy cynicism still lingers, albeit wiser and more weary..."

Record Collector (magazine) (p.88) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "The songs are breathless paeans to romance and dissatisfaction, and deserve to be discovered by generations to come."