A-Sides 39 on the Australian Albums Chart, and number 6 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. It contains one song absent from previous albums ("Bleed Together") which appeared on import copies of the "Burden in My Hand" single. The opening track "Nothing to Say" was originally not an A-side. It appeared as the B-side to the band's first single "Hunted Down" on Sub Pop in 1987. In addition, "Get on the Snake" from "Louder Than Love" was released as a promo-only single in 1989. Also, the 1990 Sub Pop single "Room a Thousand Years Wide" does not appear on "A-Sides", nor
A*mazing time remaining determines how many points they get, plus how long each school gets to spend in the maze during round two. During the second round, one contestant from each school would enter the maze and attempt to collect the letters of the answer which are hidden in such places as a garbage can, or behind a mock cactus. Ten points are given for every letter they retrieve inside the maze before their time runs out. Occasionally the maze would include letters that are not part of the answer; if a contestant collected these superfluous letters, they didn't receive any