Everything Sucks (Descendents album)

Everything Sucks
The album's cover marked the return of the band's Milo character, last used on their 1985 album I Don't Want to Grow Up.
Studio album by
Descendents
ReleasedSeptember 24, 1996 (1996-09-24)
RecordedJune–July 1996
StudioThe Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado
Genre
Length30:35
LabelEpitaph (E-86481)
ProducerBill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton
Descendents chronology
Somery
(1991) 		Everything Sucks
(1996) 		Sessions
(1997)
Singles from Everything Sucks
  1. "I'm the One"
    Released: January 12, 1997
  2. "When I Get Old"
    Released: June 6, 1997

Everything Sucks is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band Descendents, released on September 24, 1996, through Epitaph Records. It was their first album of new studio material since 1987's All, after which singer Milo Aukerman had left the band to pursue a career in biochemistry. The remaining members (bassist Karl Alvarez, guitarist Stephen Egerton, and drummer Bill Stevenson) had changed the band's name to All and released eight albums between 1988 and 1995 with singers Dave Smalley, Scott Reynolds, and Chad Price. When Aukerman decided to return to music the group chose to operate as two acts simultaneously, playing with Aukerman as the Descendents and with Price as All. It is considered a return to the band's angrier hardcore punk such as the Fat EP and Milo Goes to College.[2]

Everything Sucks was the first Descendents release to chart, reaching #132 on the Billboard 200 and #4 on Top Heatseekers, supported by the singles "I'm the One" and "When I Get Old". Aukerman returned to his biochemistry career following the album's supporting tours, reuniting with them again in 2004 for Cool to Be You, and again in 2010 for live performances.

  1. ^ Shteamer, Hank (June 17, 2016). "Descendents on the Virtues of Becoming Punk 'Codgers'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Bray, Ryan (12 July 2016). "Everything Sucks marked the return of an older, angrier Descendents". The A.V. Club. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
  3. ^ "Everything Sucks – Descendents". Apple Music. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
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