You Made Me Realise

After the Ecstasy sessions, Alan McGee signed the band to Creation. They made the EP in January 1988 at a small studio in Walthamstow that McGee provided, finishing in under a week and producing it themselves. It was released on 8 August 1988 and entered the UK indie chart at number two. A title track single limited to 1,000 copies reached 107 on the UK singles chart and five on the indie chart.

Shields sings lead on the first three songs and Butcher on the last two. Shields wrote the songs, with the words of Drive It All Over Me credited to Butcher and Ó Cíosóig. The title track became known for the noise section in its middle. In concert the band repeated a single chord from it for as long as they could bear, usually about 15 minutes. Shields told Rolling Stone that a friend, Bill Carey, lent him a Fender Jazzmaster for the record and that the whammy bar was set up so he could make the strings shiver on Thorn.

Mark Richardson of Pitchfork called the EP "a perennial on any list of the greatest EPs of all time" in 2012. Alexis Petridis put the title track second in his 2023 ranking of the band's songs and ranked Thorn and Drive It All Over Me as well. Mercury reissued the EP in 1989 as a bundle with Feed Me with Your Kiss, without the band's consent.