 Lees opined that the group's music had deteriorated along with their charm; he found the LP "dull through repetition" and a "grab-bag", with the title track the most appealing but still a "pretty miserable" performance and lyrically "cluttered to the point of incomprehensibility".The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified "Yesterday and Today" as a gold record, signifying it as a "million seller", on 8 July.The album topped the "Billboard" Top LPs chart in the US on 30 July, displacing Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night".