AllMusic said that opening song "Vacuum Boots" sets up the album's "gritty, swaggering R&B-influenced rock, delivered with remarkable assurance and attitude." "B.S.A." is an electric blues song which "[swaggers] like mad." "(David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six" is, as the name suggests, a tribute to David Bowie and has been described as "such a nice way to mix up the album." "Dawn" was later re-recorded on the band's first and only album with TVT Records, Strung Out in Heaven (1998). The Village Voice characterized "Mary, Please" as "trippy with partially dejected yet sincere lyricism" and "filled with meticulously placed tambourine and cymbals." "Straight Up and Down", which "blisters with energy," appears twice on the album as two different takes of varying length on tracks 6 and 18. The long version of "Straight Up and Down", in particular, clearly indicates two of the band's biggest '60s influences, as by the final minutes of the song, the vocals mimic both the "Woo-woo!" backing vocals from the Rolling Stones' song "Sympathy for the Devil" and the "Na-na-na-na!" vocals from The Beatles' song "Hey Jude"; Ankeny described the song as an "epic finale." Release Take It from the Man! was released on CD and double LP on May 28, 1996, by independent record label Bomp! Records as their second release on the label, and was the first of three albums that the band released that year, followed by Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request and Thank God for Mental Illness. The album was not a commercial success. In 2006, Tee Pee Records released two different anniversary double LP editions in the United States; the standard edition was printed on black vinyl while the special edition was printed on translucent blue and green vinyl. On June 25, 2007, Newcombe's A Records released a remastered CD edition in the UK, who also issued the translucent blue and orange double LP edition in the same country on August 16, 2010, and a remastered CD edition in the US on February 16, 2012. The packaging of Take It from the Man! prominently features the Union Jack, reflecting the British influence on the album, and the American flag reflecting the band's home nation. Thrasher wrote an essay on his preference for analog recording over digital recording in the liner notes. After a Vendetta Mag journalist told Newcombe he "especially loved" the essay, Newcombe stated "I really like