"Poison Pen Letters" was re-recorded for
Severed Ties, it originally appeared on the demo compilation,
State of Affairs – a collection of tracks by hardcore bands from the five mainland states of Australia. "
Love Is a Battlefield" is a cover of a track by
Pat Benatar. Three tracks contained samples from feature films, however due to copyright restrictions, the then-active label of
Boomtown was forced to remove them. The first few thousand copies printed of the album retained the samples: "I Heart Roberts'" contains one from the film,
Hot Rod, "The Blair Snitch Project" had a sample from
True Romance in its intro, and "Stairway to Hell" contains sound samples from
Hot Rod and
Happy Gilmore. The group's insider joke is in the
initialism, "B.D.K.I.A.F.", which stands for "Big Dick Know It All Fuck"; while "Do You Party?" is a reference to a joke in
Hot Rod. ==Track listing==