Though the subject of "Renaissance Fair" might make it seem as though the song is looking back to the past, the b-side is, as Bruce Eder has called it, "a perfect synthesis of the group's original electric-folk sound evolved into a new, more contemporary form of music and songwriting, almost hippie-folk music."

Though the subject of "Renaissance Fair" might make it seem as though the song is looking back to the past, the b-side is, as Bruce Eder has called it, "a perfect synthesis of the group's original electric-folk sound evolved into a new, more contemporary form of music and songwriting, almost hippie-folk music."