Originally formed as a side project for Pixies bassist Kim Deal, the Breeders quickly became her primary recording outlet.

A sample from "I Just Wanna Get Along" was used in another track by the Prodigy called "World's on Fire" from the Invaders Must Die album.

[12] It is also considered "wildly", "willingly" experimental,[14][19] sporting art rock textures, "pure", "twisted" pop, and Hawaiian surf music.

Dubbed one of its "most enduring masterpieces",[9] it's been praised for "perfectly encapsulat[ing] all that was great and wonderful" about the genre's explosion in that era.

[8] In a retrospective review of it 20 years on, Stereogum's Tom Breihan called it "a warm, homemade, deeply and consciously odd" record.