Screeching Weasel - How To Make Enemies And Irritate People

The album that was supposed to be the end. Released in September 1994 on Lookout! Records, How To Make Enemies And Irritate People was planned from the outset as Screeching Weasel's final record, recorded over just a handful of days in drummer Dan Panic's basement in Chicago with engineer Mass Giorgini. When it was done, the band broke up the same day they finished recording.

The circumstances surrounding the album are the stuff of punk legend. Bassist Dan Vapid had departed before sessions began, and his replacement was none other than Mike Dirnt of Green Day, who flew in to lay down bass tracks and at one point had to leave mid-session to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman with his day job. The result is one of the most Ramones-influenced records in the Screeching Weasel catalog, a lean, relentless 13-track blast that pointed directly toward the Riverdales project Ben Weasel, Vapid, and Panic would form in the band's wake.

As it turned out, it was not the end. The band reunited in 1996 and have continued in various forms ever since. But How To Make Enemies And Irritate People remains one of their finest hours, now presented in a 30th anniversary remix by Mike Kennerty and remaster by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering.

Limited to just 200 copies on green vinyl, this one is for the serious collectors.