I thought having the music of my childhood in there would be a good way of doing that. A lot of the lyrics are about childhood and I thought it would be a fun thing to focus on those points lyrically, about how a lot of the shit in your childhood fucks up your ability to later be an adult. I wanted to make a good ska punk record again. This more so than any other record, we all contributed, we did it all ourselves, we’re all on every song doing things. I told them I had a bunch of songs and was just going to make another bedroom EP, and they were all like, “Why would you do that? Why don’t we just do it?” and I was like, “But then you’ll have to learn all these songs, and we’ll have to record it.” And they were still saying, “Fuck yeah! Let’s just do it.” Which was the opposite reaction I had received in the past, and it felt great. One night, I went out to see Laura play and a bunch of the BTMI and ASOB guys were there. So I had all these songs just fucking sitting there and I couldn’t get past them.
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I was planning on putting out a series of seven-inch singles after Scrambles, but that became overly complicated and I never did anything. Why did you decide to put out this mini-album/longish EP thing instead of including the best of these tracks on the next LP? Stylistically, the songs could have fit on either record. This record always seemed like the logical bridging of the gap between Scrambles and Vacation. This was also the first Quote Unquote Records release.
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I didn’t have to figure out how to play the songs live with other people, it was more “I may not ever play live with other people again.” So that led to the production of this record being the way that it was. I realized it was working somehow, and it led to being able to experiment more wildly. This is too crazy” and I started doing iPod solo touring for the first time.
It was a combination of moving to Queens and never having people come visit me, and also the fact that when this record came out, people in the band sort of started saying, “Whoa I can’t tour and play in this band. But I don’t feel negatively about it.ĭid the fact that you moved to a remote area of Queens, isolated from your friends and family, during the period of writing and recording this record kind of influence your decision to turn further inward and rely only on yourself for the production? But there are also songs on there that we have never played live, that maybe would have been better as b-sides. I think it has a lot of really weird stuff on it.
This was definitely, for me, taking drum machines and home programming as far as I could take it. “I got so tired of discussing my future that I started avoiding the people I love,” he sings on the new single “Nausea.” Stuck between the past and future sometimes, the present is a shitty sandwich.Īlmost ten years to the day since the release of Bomb’s debut Album Minus Band, and only a few days prior to the release of We Cool? on SideOneDummy Records, I asked Jeff to take a look into the past and rank the BTMI! catalog in order of his personal preference, before his present catches up to his future and maybe we find out what the hell is actually gonna happen to this guy anyway? The related anxiety of what’s on the horizon is also omnipresent in the album’s 12 songs. Jeff’s forthcoming solo full-length debut, We Cool?, has a pervasive theme of fear and self-consciousness that his best days are behind him.
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