(A promo-only sampler released for the box set at the time did include it.)

Lyrically, it's kind of playful, dealing with what I see in popular culture which is, basically, a waste of creative potential and a willingness on the part of the public to be a party to that, to a lost belief in popular culture more than their own lives.

"[2] "Pop Song" was recorded at London's Marcus Studios at the end of the summer of 1989, with Steve Nye producing.

"Pop Song" and its B-side "A Brief Conversation Ending in Divorce" were pretty much finished by the time pianist John Taylor came in.

"[3] The two instrumental B-sides, "A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce" and "The Stigma Of Childhood (Kin)" were later appended as bonus tracks on the remastered version of Sylvian's 1985 album Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities.