It was issued by the band's UK label at the time, Big Cat Records.

This song was one of many to be included in the group's greatest hits album Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement.

The song attracted attention with controversial lyrics that seemed to mock alternative rock superstars the Smashing Pumpkins and the Stone Temple Pilots; Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan expressed his displeasure in magazine interviews[citation needed], while songwriter Stephen Malkmus maintained that his words had been misinterpreted and no insult was intended[citation needed].

An early 1993 demo of the song did not feature the controversial verse; guitarist Spiral Stairs recalled in 2004 that when Malkmus first revealed these new lyrics to his bandmates at the New York City recording sessions for Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, "we almost lost our lunch from laughing so much.

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