[2] The cover depicts the band mascot Eddie's point of view as he flies a time machine.

[3] According to artist Derek Riggs, this is because the band did not want to reveal the mascot in his new cyborg guise until the album was released a few weeks later.

[3] As with the Somewhere in Time album sleeve,[4] the single cover also features the TARDIS from the BBC series Doctor Who.

[5] American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams covered "Wasted Years" in 2013 for the soundtrack to the sixth season of the television series Californication.

The cover received a negative review from Spin, which called it "neutered" and said "the alt-folk champ’s vocal performance is as maudlin as the lyrics are now revealed to be, liberated as they are from their original badass trappings.