Discography

Here is the discography as it appeared in How To Make Enemies And Irritate People. I put a * before parts that I have added in.

SCREECHING WEASEL (Underdog 1987, licensed to Shigaku Trading, London 1987) 1,000 pressed in U.S., 2,000 pressed in England. Our first LP, it has 27 songs that were mostly written when I was 16 years old and in a drug treatment center in the woods of Maine. It's out of print and it's staying that way due to two important facts: 1. The original bass player wants too much mone and 2. It stinks something awful.

BOOGADABOOGADABOOAGDA (Roadkill 1988/Lookout 1992) This fucking thing has been on way too many record labels. It was original released on a Chicago label called Roadkill which was run by myself, Jughead and a rich kid named Dave Best. 2,000 vinyl copies were initially pressed and sold, and according to Dave, the second pressing only consisted of 176 copies (he needed to fill up extra jackets laying around or something). It was licensed to a British label called Wetspots w/ a cover showing a skinhead paper boy flipping the bird to some old coot. This is a beautiful, full-color album cover but unfortunately only 1,000 LP's were pressed (and we never got paid). We agreed to let Roadkill re-press it, but somehow a guy Dave was working w/ sold the tapes to a huge German company called EFA and 2,000 more copies were pressed (half on vinyl, half on CD). For all I know, they're still pressing them. The record label is listed on the jacked at Nate Starkman and Son or something. Bottom line: it's an illegal, pirated recording and we never saw a dime. The only significant difference between it and the original pressing is that it is the re-mixed version (as was the Wetspots release) and the cover is a disgusting yellow and blue (in contrast to the original black on hot pink cover). I don't own a copy of this version and I hope you don't either. It is now on Lookout, the album cover is now changed to green, the CD and vinyl version have a different weasel head rendition (by the same artist), and the back cover features a photo of the band nude in a bowling alley, which was part of a limited issue (200 copies) "poster" that came w/ the first pressing on Roadkill. Latest word is that it's been pirated yet again, this time by Wetspots' distributor, Southern. (26 songs, LP $8, Cass $7, CD $9ppd from Lookout/P.O. Box 111374/Berkeley CA/94712)

PUNKHOUSE (Limited Potential 1989, 500 hand numbered copies/No Budget 1991, 500 hand numbered copies, no sleeves/Selfless 1993 - still in print) Ok, it originally came out on Limited Potential and was financed by Roadkill. It was the only non-compilation release that Brian Vermin played on, and it was Vapid's first record w/ the band (we called him Sewercap back then, and he was our bassist. I was the second guitarist.) Our cut of the first pressing was a few copies and Mike Potential's bass guitar case. Mike has since gone on to make good dough selling his bands to major labels, but Punkhouse was his first release. I re-pressed it myself in 1991 because so many people were asking about it. I couldn't afford to do covers, but I re-did the lyric sheet and numbered the records on the labels themselves. The latest pressing has a different photo on the cover than the original (though it's from the same session so it's hard to tell). It's a six song EP and available in fine stores everywhere (at least until it goes out of print again).

"Kamala's Too Nice/I Wanna Be A Homosexual" from the WHAT ARE YOU POINTING AT? 10" compilation (Very Small Records, 1989, 1,000 copies - re-pressed on Very Small's CD only comp. entitled FOUR-TWO PUDDING- I don't know how many of those were pressed but both are outta print.) The original versions of those two songs, w/ the same line-up as PUNKHOUSE, recorded in Berkeley along with...

"Slogans" from the THERE'S A FUNGUS AMONGUS 7" comp. on What the Fuck? Records, 1989. This disc was, I believe, limited to 1,000 copies, featured all Chicago bands and was released by Martin Sorrondegy, who has taken photos for most of our album jackets and is not the singer in LOS CRUDOS.

"This Bud's For Me" from the THEY DON'T GET PAID, THEY DON'T GET LAID, BUT BOY DO THEY WORK HARD 12" comp. on Maximum RockNRoll Records, 1989. I have no idea how many were pressed, but it's now out of print. That's fine w/ me; the tune is a joke. The rest of the album sucks just as bad. This was our usual `89 line-up, w/ the addition of a local session musician on lead guitar. He also played on...

"Teenage Slumber Party" from the ACHTUNG CHICAGO 12" comp. on Underdog, 1990. This was the first release on Underdog after we changed it over to a collective (me and Juggy quit soon afterwards). The album stinks. Our song is also on the CD version of "WIGGLE".

MY BRAIN HURTS (Lookout, 1991) This was the album that marked our comeback after a year and a half breakup. It's a 14 song album and some of the best stuff we've done. I went back to my original position as just plain singer (I only played guitar on about a fourth of the songs on BOOGADA and none from our first album) and we did a short tour ending in California, where this was recorded. Vapid moved to second guitar and we added Danny Panic on drums and Dave Naked on bass. It's a fucking great album and is available from Lookout. (see above).

PERVO-DEVO (Shred of Dignity, 1991) This is a three song EP that was recorded at the M.B.H. sessions. Includes a new version of "I Wanna Be A Homosexual", an original about creepy girls and a Patsy Cline cover. Came w/ the last issue of my old fanzine, Teen Punks In Heat. I believe 2500 copies were originally pressed. 450 copies were repressed in 1992 and quickly sold out. The re-release is identical to the original, only the label name changed from Shred of Dignity to Outpunk.

WIGGLE (Lookout, 1992) This 14 song album actually came out in January of 1993, but it was SUPPOSED to be released in November of `92 and that's the way the copyrights read. We traded in Dave Naked for Johnny Personality of The Vindictives, and overall, the playing and production is much better than on MY BRAIN HURTS. There are some problems though; On the initial vinyl pressing, there are some totally annoying cymbal hisses (it's since been remixed for vinyl), but more importantly, the album just doesn't work. I like a lot of the songs, but it doesn't grab ya and shake the piss outta ya like it should. The vocals in particular are horrible, and there's entirely too much instrumental fucking around. That aside, there are some good tunes on the album, they just don't all fit together so well. The CD Has three extra tracks. (see Lookout info above)

SNAPPY ANSWERS TO STUPID QUESTIONS (Selfless, 1992) A five song live recording of our on-air performance at WFMU in New Jersey during our January `92 tour. My voice is shot and the sound quality ain't so great. The EP was limited to 1500 copies and is sold out.

HAPPY, HORNY, GAY AND SASSY (Selfless, 1992) A one-sided, three song EP that was from the same session as the above disc. It was just as lame, and limited to 300 copies. Naturally, it's out of print. The cool thing about it is the graphic blowjob scene that we got from Matt at Outpunk.

RAMONES (Selfless, 1992) It was Screeching Weasel covering the entire first Ramones LP. Some people hate it, some people like it. I'm ambivalent. It's nothing special, but it did really bring the band together at a time when we felt were were running out of gas; we had a blast recording the thing. It was limited to 1700 copies (1400 black vinyl, 300 white) and 300 were re-pressed in 1993 w/ silk screened covers. Way outta print.

SCREECHING WEASEL/PINK LINCONS (VML Records, 1993) This was a split EP w/ us and the Lincolns. One of our songs is on the CD version of "WIGGLE" ("Going Home"). The other is pretty decent. The Lincolns' side rocks. Limited to 1500, it's long gone.

RADIO BLAST (Underdog, 1993) A two song EP featuring a coupla outtakes from the "WIGGLE" sessions. This one got mixed reviews, but I think it's pretty solid, and the artwork is fucking great. The first pressing was limited to 2,000 copies and was re-pressed on burgundy vinyl.OUT OF PRINT!

"Soap Opera" from the FALLEN UPON DEAF EARS 10" EP (Skullduggery, 1994) Featured a bunch of bands, including Nausea, Dogfight, and The Vindictives and sold for only $3 ppd. OUT OF PRINT!

"Chicago" from the CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED album (Grass, 1994). A really lousy double CD put out by a Dutch East offshoot. You can find our tune on the Born Against/Screeching Weasel split (CD version only).

YOU BROKE MY FUCKING HEART EP (Lookout, 1993) Four songs, easily our best EP $4 ppd from Lookout.

ANTHEM FOR A NEW TOMMOROW (Lookout, 1993) An 18 song album. Vapid's back on bass and I'm back on second guitar. Personally, I think this is one of best things we've done. (LP/CD/cass from Lookout)

SCREECHING WEASEL/BORN AGAINST EP (Lookout, 1994) A split EP w/ each band taking each other's lyrics and writing music for it. The B.A> side is better and it's really more of a novelty item than anything else. The CD version includes our version of "Chicago" and B.A. doing the Jeffersons theme song (EP, $4ppd, CDEP $6 ppd from Lookout).

"Celena" from the IT'S A PUNK THING, YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND 12" (Shakefork). An okay tune on a record full of local bands. OUT OF PRINT!

"My Friends Are Getting Famous" from the PUNK USA comp. (CD/Cass/LP from Lookout). A 15 band comp. put together by yours truly. Also features the Queers, Jawbreaker, Moral Cruz, Pink Lincolns, face to face, the Vindictives, etc.

"SUZANNE IS GETTING MARRIED B/W WAITING FOR SUSIE EP (Lookout, 1994). A 2 song single commemorating the marriage of Maximum RocknRoll's Suzzanne Bartchy and AK Distribution's Ramsey Kanaan. The B-Side is a tune that got voted of Wiggle and was re-done w/ our last lineup.

HOW TO MAKE ENEMIES AND IRRITATE PEOPLE (Lookout, 1994) Same prices as the rest of [their] Lookout albums.

KILL THE MUSICIANS (Lookout, 1995) Compilation of some of the out of print Weasel stuff as well as some outtakes and live stuff. It was original y going to be available on CD only - now we don't' know. We're still sorting out what will be on this album so it should be released in late `94 or early `95.