Chief songwriters Daniel Ash and David J had begun concentrating strictly on their own material (rather than writing together) on Earth, Sun, Moon.
[citation needed] Because of the popularity of the single in the US, Love and Rockets became the band's best-selling album in America.
They each released two solo albums after the break (with drummer Kevin Haskins working primarily with Ash) before returning as a band to record Hot Trip to Heaven in 1994.
The bonus tracks featured a single remix, three b-sides, all five songs from the aborted Swing!
project was to be an outlet for some of the band's eccentric output, but the material was never released, except for "Bad Monkey", which ended up on the Glittering Darkness EP in 1996.