It is the follow-up to their critically successful albums Dizzy Up the Girl and A Boy Named Goo.

All tracks are written by Johnny Rzeznik, except where noted"Here Is Gone" and "Big Machine" have been the only two songs released from this album as singles and videos have been created for both.

"Big Machine" was occasionally performed live on a smashed Stratocaster guitar that Rzeznik has fondly nicknamed "The Half-Caster".

John Rzeznik wrote this song on the phone while talking to a friend.

According to Rzeznik in 2007, the video for this song cost more to produce than the entire Gutterflower album itself.