[2][3] Slaves on Dope had previously released an independent demo in 1994 titled Sober which managed to sell 5,000 copies.

[4][1] The band then went on to tour Canada five times after its release, and created enough of a buzz to eventually start playing shows in the United States.

[7] The album had a more melodic sound than their major label debut, 2000's Inches from the Mainline, utilizing almost no screaming-style vocals like on that release.

In a 2003 interview shortly after the release of their next album Metafour, vocalist Jason Rockman claimed that it was a return to the sound of One Good Turn Deserves Another.

"[8] To promote One Good Turn Deserves Another, music videos were shot in Montreal for the singles "I'll Never Feel" and "Light on Your Feet".

"[3] In his August 1997 review, Kevin Siu of Canadian publication The McGill Daily Culture wrote, "If techno a la The Prodigy/Chemical Brothers is indeed 1997's rock 'n' roll Zeitgeist, then Beaconsfield's Slaves On Dope are an endangered species.