The début single was only pressed to one thousand 7" vinyl copies in 1995, on the band's own garden shed label "Sci-Fi Hi-Fi Records".

Paul Draper explained in the liner notes to Kleptomania that the song was recorded in a day along with four other songs in a self-financed session in "the cheapest studio we could find in the back of the Melody Maker".

[1] "Take It Easy Chicken" was the group's traditional closing song during live performances and was regularly extended, a nine-minute version recorded at Barrowlands, Glasgow was included as a b-side to "Negative" in 1998.

A live version of "Drastic Sturgeon" included as a b-side to "She Makes My Nose Bleed" in 1997.

An acoustic version of "Moronica" was featured on the "Wide Open Space" single in 1996.