The 7" vinyl EP featured 4 songs that were recorded by Sonic Youth's engineer Wharton Tiers and is now exceedingly rare.
Rael's liner notes to the Acorn CD re-release allude to XTC, James Brown, and Pussy Galore as primary musical influences.
Early 4-track and live demos of Mommyheads songs were released in 1991 or 1992 as the Simple Machines cassette Swiss Army Knife.
This collection of home made songs, written and recorded primarily by Adam Cohen, were eccentric but highly original and musically complex.
Adam Elk released a solo album called Labello, and is now a successful composer for television commercials.
Jeff Palmer joined Sub Pop band Sunny Day Real Estate and Granfaloon Bus.
Dan Fisherman became a computer programmer for a small San Francisco computer company and teaches mathematics, philosophy and recording for the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, New York Mommyheads songs have been covered on record by Jenny Toomey, Andrew Bird ("Needmore, PA" on Antidote) and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin ("Accident" and "Cora," the latter on the EP Someone Still Loves You Michael Holt).
Following the death of original drummer, Jan Kotik, The Mommyheads re-united for a tribute show in New York City.
In the spring of 2010, the band released a remastered version of Flying Suit containing three bonus tracks recorded during the same era.
[2] The Mommyheads are featured in a 2010 Time Warner Cable television ad for the company's broadband internet offerings.
In 2018, The Mommyheads released Soundtrack to the World's End, an album with several songs about the quickly approaching time of social, ecological, and economic crisis.
It was the 14th most added LP in College Radio in mid-Feb 2020 and was called "their masterpiece" by Big Takeover Magazine in Spring 2020.
This is the band's highest college radio ranking with famous rock critic Bill Kopp proclaiming, "Intelligent, literate rock doesn’t get much more intelligent – or literate, for that matter – than The Mommyheads, and now, thirty-plus years after their debut, they’re making some of the best music of their career."
One Eyed Band was released in late Nov 2024 and Hit a Career Peak of #10 on College and Community Radio in the US and made it on a bunch of Year End Top 10 Lists .
The band toured The West Coast in the Fall to long time fans in Oct 2024 (pre-"Flying Suit" "Yellow Tape"/singles tracks) (appears only on the live Thirsty Ears compilation.)