Recording Everything Sucks

Everything Sucks was recorded in June and July 1996 at The Blasting Room , a studio built and run by Stevenson in Fort Collins, Colorado . Original Descendents members Tony Lombardo and Frank Navetta made appearances on the album: Navetta wrote the song “Doghouse” and both he and Lombardo played on it, marking the first recording by the original Descendents lineup of Aukerman, Lombardo, Navetta, and Stevenson since Milo Goes to College in 1982. Lombardo also played on “Eunuch Boy”, a song he and Aukerman had written fifteen years earlier. According to Aukerman: ” ‘Eunuch Boy’ is the first song I ever wrote, really. When we formed, Tony Lombardo, the original bass player said, ‘Dude- you need to write some songs,’ and I had never written a song before so I just wrote down some words and brought it to him. He made the music for it.” Lombardo also wrote and played on “Gotta”, which was left off of the album but released as a B-side on the ” When I Get Old ” single. Chad Price sang backing vocals on the album, while Stevenson and Egerton produced and engineered it.