"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" features a distinctive synthesizer line as primary sound, based on a prominent keyboards arrangement played by Phil Harrison.

Related to that, lead singer and bassist James Warren has said that the song took only 10 or 15 minutes to write, after he sang the first thing to come into his mind while he played both the chords and melody on the piano.

[22] The Korgis recorded a live, acoustic version of "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" in the summer of 2005, which was intended for release on Kollection, but which eventually made its appearance in 2006 on the Unplugged CD.

An alternate version of "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime", with a different second verse, was included as a bonus track on the 1999 CD re-issue of 1980 album Dumb Waiters.

Keyboardist Glenn Tommey and drummer Andy Marsden, both one-time backing musicians for The Korgis, were part of that incarnation of Stackridge.

"[25] Jim Whiteford of The Kilmarnock Standard noted the Korgis had followed their hit "If I Had You" with "another sweet melody which tends to stay close to you... rather like aftershave".

[49] Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "A female voice in the intro is the first variation on the Korgis' 1980 hit, then dub techniques and electronic percussion are used to take it to the jungle grand finale.

"[47] Red Rose Rock FM/Preston/Blackpool head of music Andy Roberts said, "It kind of takes you by surprise, as it starts as a ballad and then becomes jungle, which is a very original way of updating an old hit.

"[45] In his weekly dance column in Record Mirror, James Hamilton, considered it a "sure-fire smash hit attractively warbled junglistic remake".

[52] Tony Cross from Smash Hits gave '(Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime) I Need Your Loving' four out of five, writing, "Proof that pumpin' happy hardcore isn't gonna go away comes with Baby D's return.

[72] In May 2005, Zucchero and Lara Fabian performed and recorded a live version of the song with a full orchestra for the Symphonic Show on French television.

[citation needed] On March 7, 2008, Dutch pop rock band Krezip covered the song for the film Love Is All.

[citation needed] Yazz Marc et Claude Zucchero and Vanessa Carlton Cantamus Girls Choir Krezip