Around this time, group member Sara Dallin contracted meningitis, which delayed the release of the single some months.

[citation needed] When she recovered, London Records decided "Preacher Man" was a better choice for a single and so it was released in December 1990.

Despite being recorded after she left, original member Siobhan Fahey has always liked the song[citation needed] and chose to include it in the setlist.

[6] Caroline Sullivan from Smash Hits felt the song sounded like "everything they did with S/A/W", noting "the chugging beat, same slick strings and the harmonica solo.

In the end Elliott summarized: "Produced by Youth and remixed by Shep Pettibone, it throbs yet sparkles, evocative of the dreamiest, most hypnotic and heady '70s disco raves.

"[8] The accompanying music video for the song featured a man in a tank top tied to a chair in the interrogation room of a prison.