Everything Goes Wrong

Mike McHugh recorded and mixed; Wikipedia lists no producer while Stereophile calls him producer and engineer. Consequence of Sound and Polyvinyl say six days in the studio against three for the debut, Exclaim! says eight. They recorded 15 songs and used 13, and Ramone said of the debut that the album was really rushed. Ramone and Goodman wrote separately on acoustic guitars and finished the songs with Koehler. The Stranger notes it runs 36 minutes against 21.5 for the debut, and KEXP calls it the 90 mph drive through the desert compared with the debut's warehouse punk show. A Japanese bonus track is "I'll Return" (3:39).

Metacritic scored it 66. Pitchfork gave 7.8, the Guardian 4 of 5, NME 8 of 10, Spin 8 of 10 and AllMusic 3.5 stars; PopMatters gave 6 of 10 and the A.V. Club a C. Rough Trade ranked it 54th of 2009. It reached 31 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart.