"I See Red" was the second Split Enz song to achieve a top 20 chart position, peaking at #15 in Australia and #43 in the band's native New Zealand.

In the music video, the band members disappear from the performance area at the same moment, leaving only their instruments in place.

Reissued in 1989 to coincide with the release of greatest hits album History Never Repeats - The Best Of Split Enz.

According to Mike Chunn, former Split Enz member and writer of the biography Stranger Than Fiction: The Life And Times Of Split Enz, Bette Midler approached them backstage at a 1980 concert in Los Angeles and expressed her fondness for the song and discussed with the band the idea of recording her own version, though this never materialized.

[7] In 2012, the New Zealand Army Band covered the song as part of their performance for the Arrowtown 150th anniversary celebrations.