Mind Your Own Business

No source we read confirms the writers of "Mind Your Own Business"; Wikipedia credits the band collectively, and Bethan Peters co-wrote most lyrics with Julz Sale. furious.com describes it as a sarcastic take on a nerdy former partner, and PopMatters's Rob Horning wrote that it confronts a negligent partner with complaints, threats and insults, in overlapping non-harmonized voices. He called it the bracing opening song on the disc and a veritable paradigm for Erase Errata's sound. Ros Allen named it her favorite Delta 5 song: everything just gelled so well on it. John Peel played it, and it is on the Rough Trade compilation Wanna Buy a Bridge? (1981). Peel sessions of February 4 and September 2, 1980 did not include it.

The song was used in an episode of Sex Education in January 2019, in the BBC's The A Word in 2020 and in Apple's Privacy on iPhone advertisement in May 2021, and in the documentary Queen of Chess (2026). Chicks on Speed, Le Shok, R. Stevie Moore, Pigface, Dum Dum Girls and Mike D 5D have covered it, and the 2009 remixes are by Man Ray, Monnei Lamar and Deerhoof.

We found no chart entry and no setlist.fm data. We hold two uploads of the song, both titled "Mind Your Own Business", and cannot say how they differ; presumably the single version and a reissue or compilation transfer.