[1] In January 1986, Blast First and the band's American label, Homestead Records, both released "Flower" as a 12" backed by "Halloween"; the first run of the UK edition was on yellow/orange vinyl.

[1][3] "Flower", "Halloween" and "Satan Is Boring" were all later included on the Geffen Records CD reissue of Sonic Youth's 1985 album Bad Moon Rising.

What made sense in the context of the American underground, where such signifiers formed part of the bands' running commentary on their surroundings, had an equal resonance with Sonic Youth's connections with the Artforum sensibilities of New York galleries.

In the context of Collier Street, it was given short shrift, dismissed as either a piece of New Yorker know-it-all provocation, or the kind of straightforward exploitative misogynist artwork that belonged on a heavy metal album.

A retrospective on Bad Moon Rising by Sputnikmusic gave the "Flower" tracks a mixed review, opining that "Flower" and "Satan Is Boring" "amount to very little beyond vocals or drumming overtop of thick, layered distortion", but praising "Halloween", saying that Gordon's "whispered vocals create a hallucination that is accentuated perfectly with prickling guitar notes and distant-sounding drums".