[2] "Listen to Me" has been characterised as gentler than previous Hollies releases, with the Evening Standard describing the song as "a change of style a la Rubber Soul Beatles.

"[3] Tony Hazzard wrote the song after conceiving the lyric "your ears are deaf, your mouth is dumb, your eyes are blind".

[6] According to drummer Bobby Elliott, they were invited to appear on the programme again as the song climbed up the chart but had to decline as Nash was in the USA and could not return in time.

[8] Hazzard's 2022 album Demonstration features a remixed version of his original demo of the song with a newly recorded guitar part by the Hollies' Tony Hicks.

"[12] Chris Welch of Melody Maker considered "Listen to Me" an example of "mysterious currents of influence [coursing] their way through the group scene" that shares "similar sounds and rhythms" to "The Weight", then recently-released as a single by both the Band and Spooky Tooth, and "Sour Milk Sea", a contemporaneous single recorded by Jackie Lomax.