's work called it "oddball...approximated southern funk via Peter Buck's chiming Rickenbacker chords".

[6][7] Cash Box said that "a fully rocking chorus and a typically steady and murky verse give this cut superior pop character as well as giving mainstream listeners a taste of what college radio has known about for years.

The video features band members frolicking in hay fields, throwing popcorn at each other at a drive-in movie, and big insects.

"We used the new-to-us 'blue screen' process," Buck explained to MTV UK in 2001, during An Hour with R.E.M.

It was subsequently included as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of their earlier EP Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood.