Reviewing the album for
NME,
Paul Morley characterised
Alles ist gut as "slimy, steamy sex music", an evocation of "the rubbing, juices, pounding, striving, belching, stickiness ... the smells, the rhythms, the passions, the secretions, the darkness, the tears of S.E.X." It was ranked the eighth best album of 1981 by
NME.
Simon Reynolds, in
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 (2006), notes the influence the album had on Morley's later marketing and image for
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, a band signed to Morley's label
ZTT Records.
Trouser Press observed that "typical
funk rhythms are replaced by
industrial pulses (trains, etc.)" and noted the more
pop-oriented vocal styles on the album. ==Track listing==