My Way or the Highway (Tuscadero album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]
Robert Christgau	[11]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[12]
Knoxville News Sentinel	[13]
San Francisco Examiner	[14]

The Washington Post thought that "the band's appeal does get lost in the ornate production of a few of these tracks, notably the over-orchestrated 'Dr. Doom' and the anti-super model 'Paper Dolls', which rides its funky sax sound to the six-minute mark."^[15] Robert Christgau praised the "songcraft as end-in-itself."^[11] Newsday noted that the album "abandons some of the kitsch of its previous effort for stern, often angry lyrics."^[16]

Tulsa World called the album "fun, gritty pop," noting Farris's "reverence for the Pretenders/Blondie ethos."^[17] Entertainment Weekly opined that "sonic departures like the slinky antifashion anthem 'Paper Dolls' and the flamboyantly James Bondish 'Dr. Doom' neatly transcend alt-guitar-rock limitations."^[12] The Dayton Daily News wrote: "Meaty hooks and solid crunch back up songs that mostly pick on campus rock-band preptiles who overindulge in, um, passably clever pop-cultural strip mining."^[18]

AllMusic wrote that the "heady concoction of fizzy pop hooks, teen melodrama, slamming punk, and misfit glee makes My Way or the Highway an intoxicating punk-pop rush."^[10]