''Everything Sucks'' is

Reel Big Fish Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Orange County, California. The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold-certified album ''Turn the Radio Off''. Soon af ...

's first full-length studio album. It was recorded at Sound Art Studios in 1994 and 1995, and released in 1995 on Reel Big Fish's independent label Piss Off Records. The album was engineered by John Gregorius. An EP version of the album was released by

Mojo Records Mojo Records was a California-based record label founded in 1995 by producer Jay Rifkin. It became a joint venture with Universal Records in 1996 and then sold to the Zomba Group in 2001, who placed it under their subsidiary Jive Records.

after Reel Big Fish released ''

Turn the Radio Off ''Turn the Radio Off'' is the second full-length album by ska punk band Reel Big Fish. It was released in the U.S. in 1996 on Mojo Records. The single " Sell Out" both received extensive radio airplay and had mainstream success during 1997. "Se ...

'' in 1996. The full album was re-released by Mojo in January 2000, with a slightly altered track list, and the music video for the song "Everything Sucks", able to be viewed through a computer's CD-ROM drive. The original album is long out of print, and highly sought after by Reel Big Fish fans. The original release features an alternate version of "S.R." and refers to bands such as The

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, and Sublime; it is not included on the Mojo release. Most of the songs on this record could be classified as "

lo-fi Lo-fi (also typeset as lofi or low-fi; short for low fidelity) is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate choice. The ...

"; they were recorded when Reel Big Fish was still maturing as a band (some members were still in high school). The majority of the tracks were rerecorded for ''

'', '' Why Do They Rock So Hard'', and '' Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps For Free''. "Spin The Globe" had been recorded earlier, on their demo '' In The Good Old Days...'', and a few other songs were rerecorded from their 1994 demos '' Buy This!'' and ''Return of the Mullet''. The only songs from this album that have not yet appeared on any other Reel Big Fish album are "Boyfriend," "Fo' Head," "Jig," "Go Away" and "Super Hero #5." The song on ''Turn The Radio Off'' entitled "Everything Sucks" was named after this album. The child on the album cover is bassist Matt Wong's younger sister.

Track listing

All songs written by Aaron Barrett, except where noted. #"I'm Cool" – 1:43 #"Join the Club" (Barrett,

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) – 3:11 #"Call You" – 3:04 #"Hate You" – 3:27 #"I'll Never Be" (Barrett, Andrew Gonzales, Adam Polakoff) – 4:05 #"Boyfriend" (Dada Oboe, Issac Guzman) – 3:49 #"Fo' Head" – 2:04 #"Trendy" (Barrett, Matt Wong) – 3:25 #"Skatanic" (Barrett, Gonzales, Werts, Wong) – 3:13 #"Why Do All Girls Think They're Fat?" – 2:21 #"Say 'Ten'" – 2:22 #"I Want Your Girlfriend to Be My Girlfriend Too" – 3:17 #"Jig" – 1:37 #"Go Away" – 1:16 #"

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" – 3:40 #"Snoop Dog, Baby" (Barrett, Gonzales, Werts) – 3:32 #"Big Fuckin' Star" – 3:12 #"Fuck Yourself" – 2:45 #"Spin the Globe" – 4:21 #"I'm Her Man" – 3:48 #"Super Hero #5" – 3:30 Track 19 is a hidden track on the 1995 version. It is only listed on the 2000 re-issue. Tracks 20 and 21 are only included in the 2000 re-issue.

EP Version

#Join the Club #I'll Never Be #

#Why Do All Girls Think They're Fat? #Call You #Go Away

Personnel

;Reel Big Fish *Aaron Barrett –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

*Matt Wong – bass * Andrew Gonzales –

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

s *Dan Regan –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* Robert Quimby – trombone *Adam Polakoff –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

;Production *Zack Shutt – executive producer *Patrick McDowell – A&R *Adam Redner – art direction, design *John Gregorious – engineer, mixing *Kristine Ripley – art direction, design *

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– photography

References

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