The album helped the band develop a national fanbase, as well as garnering a bidding war over the band from several major labels, including Geffen Records, Sub Pop Records and Mojo Records.
Minute Maid | Milwaukee Mile | Mile End | Up to the Minute | The Green Mile | Royal Mile | Three Mile Island accident | Just a Minute | Ten Minute Rule | Revolutions per minute | nautical mile | mile run | Golden Mile | The Green Mile (film) | Miracle Mile | Mile High | mile | Magnificent Mile | Breeders' Cup Mile | Three Mile Island | Stronger Every Minute | Six Mile Run, New Jersey | One-Mile Telescope | 8 Mile (film) | 8 Mile | Wanamaker Mile | Six Mile Creek (Florida) | six mile creek | Single-Minute Exchange of Die | One Minute Please |
The release included stripped-down versions of several tracks from Guilt Show, as well as the song "Action & Action" from the band's second album Something to Write Home About and "Better Half" from their debut album Four Minute Mile.
On 6 May 1954, he acted as pacemaker for Roger Bannister when the latter ran the first sub-four-minute mile at Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford.
In 1997, Karl Paranya '97 became the first (and only) Division III athlete to run a four-minute mile, clocking 3:57.6. The history of Haverford track also includes former team captain Philip Noel-Baker 1908, who later captained Great Britain's 1924 Olympic team upon which the movie Chariots of Fire is based, and became a 1959 Nobel peace prize winner years later.