to receive any royalty payments. Before leaving Chicago, Livermore and King made plans for another recording session later that summer with Giorgini at his Sonic Iguana Studios in Lafayette, Indiana, to work on songs with fuller arrangements. Vapid was forced out of Screeching Weasel shortly after the Beat Off sessions, replaced by Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt for Screeching Weasel's subsequent album How to Make Enemies and Irritate People (1994), recorded two months later. Screeching Weasel broke up after recording the album, and Vapid joined Weasel and Panic in their new band, the Riverdales. Recording By the time of the Surf Goddess sessions, O'Neill had rejoined the Queers on drums. Vapid played on the sessions as a guest guitarist. The recording was produced by Livermore and engineered by Giorgini. Livermore later wrote that they made sure to "[take] full advantage of the overdubs and effects spurned by Ben Weasel on Beat Off", and that the few days they spent recording the EP were "truly enjoyable" in comparison to other Queers recording sessions. According to former Queers guitarist JJ Rassler, the EP's title track dated back to the mid-1980s, one of a number of songs he and King had written together in the lead-up to the Queers' first album, Grow Up (1990). As eventually recorded, the song was co-written by King and Weasel, one of several songs (also including "Fuck the World" and "Like a Parasite") that the two collaborated on and recorded versions of with their respective bands. Screeching Weasel recorded their version of "Surf Goddess" first, releasing it on How to Make Enemies and Irritate People. The two bands' versions have different musical structures and verses, with only the pre-chorus and chorus in common. The Queers' cover version of Tommy James and the Shondells' 1967 single "Mirage" was originally recorded and released on Beat Off, and was re-recorded for Surf Goddess. They also covered the Undertones' 1979 single "Get Over You" for the EP; this recording was also included on a 1996 Undertones tribute album titled Here Comes the Summer. The EP was rounded out with an original song, "Quit Talkin. Lookout!'s Chris Appelgren created the artwork for the release, which featured the "Queers cat", a mascot he had created for the band based on old Felix the Cat images. Reception Surf Goddess was released as both a 7-inch record and a compact disc. Reviewing it for AllMusic, critic