Original song Larry Flick from
Billboard magazine wrote, "
Dance act is making quick club inroads with this delightfully retro romp. A chunky, midtempo groove is dressed in snakey
funk guitar licks, bright horn thrushes, and pulses of strings. Radio viability comes from the song's traditional structure and a contagious hook. Bolstered by prerelease interest on European import, cool track has the makings of a multiformat hit. Not to be missed." A reviewer from
Lennox Herald described it as "confident sassy
soul with good hook and chorus."
James Hamilton from
Music Week's
RM Dance Update commented that "the soulful John Reed led Glaswegians get really classy with this Seventies-style chantingly harmonized joyful swirling and soaring brassy jiggler".
Marc Kinchen remix Scottish
Aberdeen Press and Journal called the song "infectious".
AllMusic editor John Bush deemed it a
deep-house hit and a
house anthem.
Larry Flick from
Billboard stated that "Push The Feeling On" "is one of those records that simply will not go away." He noted
Marc "M.K." Kinchen's "sinewy rhythms" of the remix. In his weekly UK chart commentary,
James Masterton said, "With hindsight it is easy to see why, as it is one of those dance hits to rank alongside the
Source's '
You Got The Love' and
Robin S's '
Show Me Love' - a simple but insistent rhythm upon which is built layer after layer of production to reach a rousing climax... watch it go Top 3." In September 1994, Ben Turner from
Melody Maker stated, "Proof that, on its day, pure "house" is still the saviour of contemporary music." Pan-European magazine
Music & Media wrote, "Third time lucky for the Brits who finally score a hit at home with the MK Dub Revisited Edit. In fact they're the creators of that "canned vibraphone" sound as popularised by Robin S."
James Hamilton from
Music Week's
RM Dance Update described it as "a bouncily honking and jolting infectious 121.8bpm beefy strider that chops up Jon Reed's vocal into almost continuously looped gibberish lacking any quotable
hook".
Iestyn George from
NME commented, "Curious reissue of this 1994 favourite, faithfully deconstructed by Mark Kinchen, retaining the garage-friendly sparkle of the original with neatly layered vocal samples and sparse, skipping rhythms. Pruning the track's soulier overtones, this proves that less can, indeed, be more." The remix was present on many retrospective top ranking lists of the best dance singles of the 90s, including
Mixmag's "The 100 Best Dance Singles of All Time",
MTV's "The 100 Biggest 90's Dance Anthems of All Time" and
Vibe's "Before EDM: 30 Dance Tracks from the '90s That Changed the Game". The success of "Push the Feeling On" and its follow-up "
Surrender Your Love" also earned the group an award at the 1996 Dance d'Or Awards in France. ==Music video==