Overview
Not all the tracks featured on this EP are the industrial style of the first track. "IZ-US" features mellow synth tones with jazz style drums. Each mix of "Come to Daddy" is completely different, the "Little Lord Faulteroy mix" is a calm track with bizarre vocal samples that ends up resembling nothing like the original track and the "Mummy mix" is, in a way, a remix of the song "To Cure a Weakling Child" from Richard D. James Album. The other tracks also have their own style, most notably "Flim", an upbeat song similar in mood to the track "Xtal" from Selected Ambient Works 85–92, possessing a cheerful melody and Aphex Twin's signature complex polyrhythms. The song "Funny Little Man" features, at the end, a PlainTalk voice states "I would like to fuck you up the bunghole, and then I will sneak into your room and cut your cock off, and stuff it in my mouth, and chew them up with my little pearlies." The end of "Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix)" features samples from one of his earliest works, Isoprophlex.
Though Aphex Twin rarely uses vocals in his work, six of Come to Daddy's eight tracks feature vocals.
Come to Daddy's packaging features stark black letters against a white background. All the information, tracklistings and lyrics are printed the same way, and only two images are present, both photographed by Stefan DeBatselier and digitally altered by Chris Cunningham, using James' face on children. James has used his likeness as the artwork on five of his releases: The ...I Care Because You Do and Richard D. James Album albums, the Donkey Rhubarb and Come to Daddy EPs and the Windowlicker single.
The cover of the out-of-print second CD, with its white lettering against an orange background, makes reference to the fact that "To Cure A Weakling Child" had been used in a television advertisement for Orange. The advertisement used an edit of the album version; a radically different remix appears on the EP.
"Come to Daddy, Pappy Mix" is heard twice in the film 8mm starring Nicolas Cage, the music video can be seen in part on a television screen in Dino Velvet's office and the vinyl record can be seen on a turntable in Machine's room. It is also is heard in the movie CKY2K during a skateboarding montage along with camera work that corresponds to the beats of the song. The song is also in the German film Curiosity & the Cat, the Xbox 360 driving game Project Gotham Racing 3, and the PlayStation 3 racing game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.
"Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" was used as the fourth song on the soundtrack to the film Pi.
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