The song was the first single released prior to the band's second album Lullaby in 1988.

— Susan Ottaviano[3]The B-side to the single is a cover of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells", originally became famous as the theme song in popular horror movie The Exorcist.

[2] For the 12" release of the single, "Tubular Bells" and "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls" were mixed together as a fourteen-minute medley by Scott Blackwell and Bob Brockmann.

The album Lullaby also begins with a shorter version of "Tubular Bells", which flows seamlessly into "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls", the second track on the album.

All instruments arranged, programmed, and performed by Book of Love.