Built around a prominent keyboard riff, the song was a commercial success throughout Western Europe, reaching the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

[1] The music to "Narcotic" was written by Liquido singer and keyboardist Wolfgang Schrodl, who wrote it in 1996 in his Heidelberg home when he was 21 years old.

[5] Singer and guitarist Tim Eiermann, whose origins lied in grindcore, said "The harder stuff definitely wouldn't have been a hit.

The single was not even released in the United Kingdom, and Schrodl was told it was because the market for continental European music there is too small and because the song would not receive much radio play due to the drug references in the lyrics.

It was clear to me early on that 'Narcotic' would shape the entire perception of the band for an indefinite period of time and would be hard to top, and of course I wasn't very happy about it.

[13] In 2019, the song was covered by German DJ duo YouNotUs alongside Dutch songwriter Janieck, and Schrodl received credit under the alias Senex.