AMG REVIEW: A peculiar, not entirely successful, but often fascinating album, 1983's W.O.M.A.N. (the title is an acronym of the title of the first song, "Without Mentioning Any Names") is a record of two distinct halves. The first half is far superior, a loosely connected suite of songs that range from the title track, a screaming two-minute rocker with a peculiar but perfect voice-and-drums arrangement, to a surreal, spoken word story, "The Driving Beat," to the jangly pop of "Let's Be Sad," and the heavily phased psychedelia of "Every Little Girl Delights The Senses." The album's second half, "Without Girls" through "Whose Blues," is entirely different; recorded in one sitting with a solitary acoustic guitar and supposedly entirely improvised. The songs are in Moore's often fruitful, yearning falsetto mode, but with the exception of "Kids Are Still" (bemused wonderment at the younger generation's fascination with '60s and '70s rock), "How Does It Feel To Feel Good?" and the winsome, almost Jonathan Richman-like "Took My Baby," the songs are a fairly weak lot primarily of interest to hardcore fans. It's worth it for the album's first half, though. The CD release includes four live tracks recorded in 1985, including a new medley of "The Driving Beat" and "Without Mentioning Any Names."

–Stewart Mason, All Music Guide