"...it’s not just another great old album celebrating an anniversary, and la di da, let’s all genuflect and savor an old favorite like the sentiment of The Beatles “Your Mother Should Know.” Even 40 years on, and even with the Troubles subdued by 1998’s Good Friday Belfast Agreement—assuming Brexit doesn’t blithely and bizarrely scotch it—Inflammable Material is a one of kind type of record in its lasting power, so violently exciting and yet so catchy, and so mind-blowing in capturing in mere musical form the emotional onslaught of day to day disgust with the Northern Irish stalemate as it existed then (and had for centuries), that it’s impossible to forget the LP even decades after first hearing it. Indeed, while SLF would themselves likewise evolve tremendously out of punk, almost uncannily in the same manner as the Clash had before them, on subsequent major label-distributed LPs, and remain to this day a valiant band, Inflammable Material was the only one of its kind even SLF would attempt. The statement had been made."

- Rock And Roll Globe