The B-side, "Strange Invitation", is a re-recorded version of "Jack-Ass", played on acoustic guitar and strings and forecasts the style Beck would later use on Sea Change in 2002.

Insane Clown Posse sampled this song for their 1999 single "Another Love Song", from their album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, but the sample was cleared with Bob Dylan, the writer of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", rather than Beck.

[3] The track is used in an episode of the Chris Morris radio show Blue Jam.

Later, Beck's character sees a show girl atop a pile of coal that turns into a peacock.

At the end of the work shift, the miners emerge into a fully colored world.