The Ever Passing Moment by MxPx

The Ever Passing Moment, MxPx's fifth album, hit shelves on May 16, 2000, on A&M, with Jerry Finn behind the board. The Bremerton, Washington band, together since starting out as Magnified Plaid in 1992, had bassist and singer Mike Herrera, drummer Yuri Ruley and guitarist Tom Wisniewski, and here they sharpen every pop-punk hook to a point. Herrera has said he was chasing Elvis Costello's This Year's Model while writing these songs, and you can hear it in the tighter melodies and the wiry, nervous snap under the buzzsaw guitars.

"Responsibility" turned into a modest radio hit, and the record won the band real critical respect plus a support slot on the Conspiracy of One tour behind the Offspring and Cypress Hill. One fun footnote: that's Dave Grohl hollering the count-in at the top of "The Next Big Thing".

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