The album was released in 1992 and compiles eight remastered versions of cuts from the band's debut, A Day at the Bay, with previously unreleased songs from the sessions.

A music video was filmed for "Box o' Gods".

In 1993, shortly after Pistolbuttsa'twinkle was sold out and deleted, Tlot Tlot reissued the album as Pistolbuttsatwinkle'atwinkle, with new cover art and a re-ordered track list incorporating five tracks originally from Day at the Bay, but left off the original CD release.

The name of the track "Sunny Delirious" would, in the 2010s, be used as the name of Sunny Delirious Pty Ltd, the company owning the trademark to Merril Bainbridge's online maternity wear store Peachymama.

[1] Tlot Tlot are the only known pop group to write a song - "The Bonebass Suttee“ on this album - about the practice of Sati.