How to Make Enemies and Irritate People is the seventh studio album by the Chicago-based punk rock band Screeching Weasel. Planned as the group's final album, it was released in August 1994 on CD, vinyl and cassette through Lookout Records. Shortly before recording the album, bassist/backing vocalist Dan Vapid left the band and, as a result, Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt was recruited to play on the album. Screeching Weasel broke up the day recording finished and shut down their post office box soon after. During the break-up, vocalist Ben Weasel, Vapid and drummer Dan Panic went on to form the more Ramones-influenced band the Riverdales while guitarist John Jughead took time off from music to write and direct plays. The band would reunite in 1996 with Vapid back on bass for the Bark Like a Dog album on Fat Wreck Chords. After the band removed its catalog from Lookout due to unpaid royalties, the album was re-released by Asian Man Records in 2005 and was again reissued on vinyl in 2013 by Recess Records featuring new artwork. The new artwork, illustrated by Riccardo Bucchioni, depicts the Screeching Weasel mascot punching a tree as numerous figures wielding flaming torches approach from the shadows - a visual allusion to the aftermath of the infamous 2011 SXSW incident in which Ben Weasel was involved in an onstage physical altercation. Background Shortly after the release of their sixth studio album Anthem for a New Tomorrow in 1993, the group embarked on what would be its final tour until 2000. The group played the final show of the tour on November 2, 1993 and decided to break up one year from that date. However, bassist Dan Vapid left the band in Spring 1994. Although they knew Screeching Weasel was "pretty much over", the other members of the band wanted to record one more album of songs they had been working on since the release of Anthem for a New Tomorrow. As a replacement for Vapid, the group recruited Mike Dirnt, bassist for the Berkeley, California-based punk rock band Green Day, to play bass on the album. Dirnt was "short on time", however, as Green Day had just released their album Dookie at the time and were experiencing mainstream success. Recording The album was recorded 6 days from June 14 to 16, then from June 22 to 24, in drummer Dan Panic's basement at his