[6] According to the band, Don Smith had made blatantly racist comments very early in the recording sessions that had incensed Hawkins.

"Motel 30" and "Eating the Rich" definitely benefitted from Smith's influence, while earworms in "Pistol" and "Gamble" became staples on local radio.

[11] "City Full of Cowards" was released as a CD single, with the non-album B-sides "Bit" and "Crying Like a Postcard".

He is the subject of the song "Life Imitates Art", and is referenced in the lyrics to "Pistol" alongside Joe Strummer, Black Flag and Billy Bragg.

The band's manager at the time knew Bergmann and arranged the cameo: "So we met Art when he came in to do that with Hallucigenia and we just became friends.

That’s where the Lowest Of The Low used to hang out til all hours of the night, all the time, so I pulled most of the stuff that’s in that spoken word off the graffiti in the bathroom there.