Songfacts®:

• The A-side to this single, "Everybody's Problem," saw Jarvis Cocker unsuccessfully pursue an unashamedly pop direction for the band - to no real avail. However, it seems the other side of this single stuck more to the Pulp formula at the time, albeit a short-lived one. "The B-side was a very genteel song with a lot of harmonies. I wrote all the songs at that time on the guitar, but Simon Hinkler helped a lot. He was good at arranging and adding instruments," noted Cocker in a 1994 interview with Record Collector.
• Simon Hinkler was instrumental in the writing of this song, and his stay in Pulp was positive, albeit brief. He mentored the younger Jarvis Cocker and was involved in the same nascent Sheffield music scene as him. He only was involved with Pulp for a short time in 1983, and later found success of his own as lead guitarist in the goth-rock band The Mission.