FORCED EXPOSURE # 11 Winter 87
CAVEMEN - Yeah...

...cool, partially Spot-produced debut by a TX quartet that rambles down the rocky road with a real nice gait. This sixtiesism is not formalist, but kneaded into a dough a eighties-style hard strum guitar smoot, covers of "Gloria" and "Human Fly" show them to be both engagingly dumb and relatively hep, so why don't you tank up?
BYRON


SOUND CHOICE- April 1987
THE CAVEMEN:...yeah
These young 'uns are punk rock, the way it used to be before saturation set in. The Cavemen have a back beat and originality. They're musically different and the mixing and producing does not do this album justice. It sounds like the tone was too low or they recorded the record in their closet. Good job boys, a valiant attempt, but try a different engineer next time or something.--Eric Sontag

BUZZ- Vol. 111, Issue #16, December 1986
THE CAVEMEN- ...yeah
And yet another band from Austin, Texas...
While that would excite most people, you'd better play the record first before you get your hopes up. This is a very plain sounding garage band that does not excite at all.
Side one sort of sits like a lump of grease in your throat; it doesn't do anything, it just sits there. By the time I got to the cover of Them's "Gloria", this baby was ready for skeet practice. After getting through "Gloria", ...yeah was plain garbage. Side two gets progressively worse, plain, sloppy, plain. The Cavemen are not breaking any new ground. If anything, they've retarded the Austin music scene sound. If you treasure the Cramp's "Human Fly", save yourself the aggravation of listening to this cow flop.--Howard Glassman


GOLDMINE- March 13, 1987-
They're really rockin' in Austin- At the scene vinyl survey, Part 2-
by Jeff Tamarkin

CAVEMEN
Minor but harmless garage band doesn't add anything to the psych-punk thing but their loose 'n' lazy approach is admirable and fans of trash-rock with a poppy but hard edge will wanna check it out. LP....yeah.