the blueprint for pop-punk as we know it." Several notable artists and musicians cite Milo Goes to College as a favorite and influence, including Mike Watt of the Minutemen, David Nolte of The Last, and Zach Blair of Hagfish, Only Crime, and Rise Against. Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters opined that "If the Descendents had made Milo Goes to College in 1999, they’d be living in fucking mansions. That's a fucking amazing record." Joey Cape of Lagwagon remarked that the album "was just huge in punk and to me. I don't think there would have been a [Lagwagon] song like 'Angry Days' without that album." Fat Mike of NOFX has cited Milo Goes to College as his favorite record of all time, and said that hearing the song "Kabuki Girl" on Rodney Bingenheimer's Rodney on the ROQ program on KROQ-FM was a significant moment in his youth. Chris Shary, who has done artwork for the Descendents and their successor band, All, since 1998, remarked that "From the minute that I heard the beginning it was like 'this is the music that I have been waiting for. Photographer Glen E. Friedman, who photographed the band during the early 1980s, recalled that "the album had just come out, and coincidentally I had my own little heartbreak as a teenager, and I heard that song 'Hope' and I gotta say that I had never in my life related to a song about love ever before until I heard that song [...] I was just 'Wow, this is fucking heavy. This guy's hurting even more than I am, and this is desperation.' A whole new world opened up of a depth of emotion in music for me." In the decades since its release, many artists have recorded cover versions of songs from Milo Goes to College for other releases, including: "Myage" by Thrillionaire "I'm Not a Loser" by the Voodoo Glow Skulls, Jake & the Stiffs, Manic Hispanic (as a parody version titled "I'm Just a Cholo"), Sublime, and Strung Out. "Parents" by Squatweiler with Asteroid Wilhanna and by Milo Greene "I'm Not a Punk" by the Melting Hopefuls "Catalina" by Black Train Jack and by The Bronx "Suburban Home" by Taking Back Sunday, MxPx, and FIDLAR featuring Brian Rodriguez "Statue of Liberty" by FF "Kabuki Girl" by Frank Phobia and Clem and by Mike Watt + The Secondmissingmen "Hope" by