Everything Sucks by Descendents

Everything Sucks, the Descendents' fifth studio album, came out on Epitaph on September 24, 1996, and it's the sound of Milo Aukerman walking back into the room. He'd left after 1987's All to chase a career in biochemistry, and bassist Karl Alvarez, guitarist Stephen Egerton and drummer Bill Stevenson carried on under the name All with a string of other singers. When Milo came back, they simply ran both bands at once.

With Stevenson producing, the reunion doesn't go soft: this is a return to the snotty, speed-freak hardcore of the Fat EP and Milo Goes to College, all bratty hooks and blurred tempos. "I'm the One" and "When I Get Old" were the singles, both short, sharp and catchy as a cold. No Descendents record had charted before; this one got to No. 132 on the Billboard 200, and afterward Milo went back to the lab.

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