Editing But Seriously, Folks... (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Al |last=Campbell |title= ''But Seriously, Folks...'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r21461 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |accessdate=July 9, 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2score = C+<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: W|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=W&bk=70|accessdate=March 21, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
}}
In a contemporary review for ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[Robert Christgau]] wrote that, although Walsh has "a gift for tuneful guitar schlock", most of the album's songs fall "far short of the irreverent shuck-and-jive" of "[[Life's Been Good]]".<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=September 4, 1978|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv9-78.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|location=New York|accessdate=April 29, 2013}}</ref> In a retrospective review, [[AllMusic]]'s Al Campbell said that the album is "Joe Walsh's most insightful and melodic", and "captures a reflective song cycle along the same thematic lines of ''[[Pet Sounds]]'', only for the '70s".<ref name="AM" />

''[[Cash Box]]'' said that the single "Over and Over" "has several distinctive rhythmic breaks, organ backing, swirling guitar work, slip and slide beat and good double-tracked vocals" and praised Walsh's [[slide guitar]] solo.<ref name=cb>{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=October 21, 1978|page=28|newspaper=Cash Box|accessdate=2022-01-01|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1978/CB-1978-10-21.pdf}}</ref>