This single was recorded a couple of months after the It mini-LP was released. It was intended to spark some interest in the band after the relative commercial failure of It. Tony Perrin, the band's manager, encouraged Jarvis Cocker to write a catchy pop song: a commercial song "like 'Wham" was the way Jarvis later facetiously described it. From early on Jarvis felt the whole idea was a mistake and only went along with it half-heartedly. The level of indifference is indicated by the fact that the vocals on Everybody's Problem were originally only intended as a guide vocal with Jarvis noticeably fluffing the words in one place. Not surprisingly, when released, the single sunk without trace. This incarnation of the band split up soon afterwards. Today, the tracks on Everybody's Problem are among the hardest to find of all those in Pulp's back catalogue. They did appear on early reissues of It in 1994 but were quickly removed due to legal issues over who actually had rights to them. They can now only be found on a couple of obscure compilation albums released by Cherry Red. The original single is a hard-to-find collector's item.