[4] The songs on A Picture of Nectar explore a variety of musical genres, including jazz, country, calypso, rock and roll and neo-psychedelia.

The Latin jazz instrumental "The Landlady" is performed in concert as both a segment of the longer piece "Punch You in the Eye" and as a separate song.

The short instrumental, "Faht", written by drummer Jon Fishman, has only been performed live twelve times, the last in 1995.

[8] After its vinyl reissue in 2014, A Picture of Nectar charted on the Billboard 200 for the first time (22 years after its release), peaking at number 110.

[1] In an April 2, 1992, review, Billboard magazine raved that A Picture of Nectar "...should be required on all college listening lists.