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| How to Make Enemies and Irritate People | ||||
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 Original Lookout cover | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 23, 1994[1] | |||
| Recorded | June 1994 | |||
| Studio | Dan Panic's basement in Chicago | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 27:56 | |||
| Label | Lookout, Asian Man, Recess | |||
| Producer | Mass Giorgini and Ben Weasel | |||
| Screeching Weasel chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Punk Planet | Favorable[3] |
How to Make Enemies and Irritate People is the seventh studio album by the Chicago-based punk rock band Screeching Weasel. Planned as the group's final album, it was released in September 1994 on CD, vinyl, and cassette through Lookout Records. Shortly before recording the album, bassist/backing vocalist Dan Vapid left the band and, as a result, Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt was recruited to play on the album.
Screeching Weasel broke up the day recording finished[4] and shut down their post office box soon after. During the break-up, vocalist Ben Weasel, Vapid and drummer Dan Panic went on to form the more Ramones-influenced band the Riverdales while guitarist John Jughead took time off from music to write and direct plays.[5] The band would reunite in 1996 with Vapid back on bass for the Bark Like a Dog album on Fat Wreck Chords.
After the band removed its catalog from Lookout due to unpaid royalties, the album was re-released by Asian Man Records in 2005 and was again reissued on vinyl in 2013 by Recess Records featuring new artwork.[6] The new artwork, illustrated by Riccardo Bucchioni, depicts the Screeching Weasel mascot punching a tree as numerous figures wielding flaming torches approach from the shadows - a visual allusion to the aftermath of the infamous 2011 SXSW incident in which Ben Weasel was involved in an onstage physical altercation.
- ^ "How to Make Enemies and Irritate People - Screeching Weasel | Release Info". AllMusic.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Dandy, Will (November–December 1994). "Record Reviews". Punk Planet (4): 66.
- ^ Screeching Weasel - Kill the Musicians liner notes. Retrieved 2016-07-07
- ^ Screeching Weasel - Thank You Very Little liner notes. Retrieved 2016-07-07
- ^ "Screeching Weasel-How To Make Enemies and Irritate People LP!!".