People" were included on their second compilation album Loads (1995). "Tart Tart" and "24 Hour Party People" featured on the band's fourth compilation album The Platinum Collection (2005). "Olive Oil" and "24 Hour Party People" were included on their fifth compilation album Double Double Good: The Best of Happy Mondays (2012). Reception Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. AllMusic reviewer Ned Raggett said Cale managed to "capture the cluttering mess" of Happy Mondays' "approach well enough". Sounds writer Ron Rom said that the album was "full of bitter disdain and sardonic, esoteric arrogance," with Cale's "unremarkable production" doing "little to cut through the gloom". He added that the band "hit hard, [...] and they rarely miss", topped by "[s]cruffy council estate vocals" from Shaun Ryder. The Observer John Savage called the album the "finest flowering to date" from any Manchester act. Melody Maker reviewer Paul Mathur said Ryder's lyrics are a "source of haphazardly magical beauty, mixing bluntness and oblique suggestion with a certain shuffled cliche". Record Mirror writer Nancy Culp, on the other hand, said the lyrics "come across as the most bleak and hopeless this side of a Cure record". She added that "putting aside the fact that you feel like wrenching the damn record off after three tracks," it had "something curiously addictive" to it. Andy Darling of City Limits felt the songs would sound "great live", however, "on record it fails". For Trouser Press, Doug Brod and Michael Krugman called the album "unimaginative", stating it is "often unlistenable", with "no apparent flourishes" from Cale. Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) peaked at number four on the Independent Albums Chart in the UK. "Tart Tart" peaked at number 13 on the Independent Single Chart, while "24 Hour Party People" reached number ten. 10,000 copies of the album were pressed in total, though only 3,500 of them were sold within six months of its release. By this point, the Railway Children moved to Virgin Records and Miaow had broken up. Despite this, Wilson saw no commercial potential in Happy Mondays. At the end of 1987, the album had signed 5,000 copies. While the band had success in the press, it did not translate to sales, as Ryder explained: "I thought that [the positive