Out of the five tracks included on this EP, four had already been previously released on the band's first three albums while the other would end up on their fourth album Mother's Milk in tribute to Hillel Slovak, the band's original guitarist who died of a heroin overdose and plays guitar on the track.

[2] The only "new" track at the time of release was a cover of the song "Fire" by Jimi Hendrix, which was recorded during the sessions for The Uplift Mofo Party Plan and included in a different mix as the B-side to "Fight Like a Brave".

Clunn told the band's UK record company EMI, which organised the shoot, that the films had fallen out of his pocket and been run over by a lorry.

I got a phone call about half six the next morning asking me to do it again... Fortunately, both the band and EMI bought the story.

"[3] Clunn said another idea for the shoot was to replicate the cover of Please Please Me, where the Beatles are looking down over the stairwell inside EMI's London headquarters in Manchester Square.