(Gone, Gone)" did not chart in the UK, though it did attract positive reception from music critics.

", an early version of "Babies" was recorded, but it was passed over for single release at the time.

He suggested we go and talk to Geoff [Travis] and Jeanette [Lee, from Rough Trade] who agreed to help us even though we'd signed a five-album deal.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that the song demonstrated "the band's knack for creating terrific pop singles [that] prevents them from being too pretentious.

"[4] Stuart Maconie of Select Magazine named the song, alongside the band's other Gift Records singles, as "funny, endearing and sometimes slightly nightmarish.

"[5] All songs written and composed by Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Steve Mackey, Nick Banks and Candida Doyle.