[2] The song was initially recorded in 1986 and featured on the soundtrack to the film Dudes, starring Jon Cryer.

This version can also be found as a track on the 1997 alternate & live cut compilation album Kettle Whistle.

The single was re-released on April 18, 2009, to help promote the Jane's Addiction box set A Cabinet of Curiosities, released the same month.

[7] As a means to make the official, unedited version available to fans, Jane's Addiction released the "videomentary" Soul Kiss on Valentine's Day 1989.

The first video for the song was created without the band's knowledge, involvement or input by Andrew Doucette in September 1988 from existing performance footage provided to him by Warner Bros. Records.