Look Forward to Failure

Look Forward to Failure is an EP released on November 10, 1998 by The Ataris on Fat Wreck Chords. This was the first album released to feature fan favorite "San Dimas High School Football Rules", a song that would later appeared on Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits. The band also intended on putting the song "That Special Girl" on Blue Skies, Broken Hearts as well but it didn't make the cut. The song features Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 on backing vocals. The version of "My Hotel Year" that appears on this EP is the electric version and contains an extra verse at the end. The version that ended up on Blue Skies was acoustic and shortened.

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Look Forward to Failure
EP by
The Ataris
ReleasedNovember 10, 1998
RecordedSeptember 14-18, 1998
StudioSilver Cloud Recording, Redondo Beach, CA
Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, CA
GenrePop punk, skate punk
Length14:40
LabelFat Wreck Chords
ProducerBill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton, Joey Cape
The Ataris chronology
Anywhere but Here
(1997)		 Look Forward to Failure
(1998)		 Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits
(1999)

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."San Dimas High School Football Rules"2:45
2."Not a Worry in the World"2:22
3."My So Called Life"2:41
4."My Hotel Year"2:18
5."Between You and Me"2:36
6."That Special Girl" (featuring Mark Hoppus)1:55
Total length:14:40

Band members

Additional personnel
  • Backup vocals were provided by Mark Hoppus and Chad Price.
  • Tracks 2, 3, 4, and 6 were recorded and mixed at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, CO on September 14–18, 1998. They were produced and engineered by Bill Stevenson and Stephen Egerton and mixed by Jason Livermore.
  • Tracks 1 and 5 were recorded at Orange Whip Studios in Santa Barbara, CA. They were produced by Joey Cape and engineered by Angus Cooke.

Trivia
  • The song "My So Called Life" was written by Kris because he had a crush on Claire Danes. He also later wrote a song entitled "Ben Lee", which was about Claire's boyfriend of the same name and how much Kris hated him.
  • The song "My Hotel Year" was inspired by the book Life After God by Douglas Coupland.
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gollark: I know that because someone in my year was suspended after finding that out, because that's always a reasonable way to encourage speaking up about security issues.
gollark: My school apparently had their CCTV camera software available on the internal network with the default password set.
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References
  1. "Look Forward to Failure - The Ataris | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
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