Editing Descendents (section)

===Second reformation, ''Everything Sucks'', and third hiatus (1995–2003)===
In 1995 Aukerman expressed a desire to return to recording and performing, so the band members decided to work with him as the Descendents while continuing to work with Price as All, in order to "make room for Milo without pushing Chad out."<ref name="FAQ"/> Stevenson explained that the arrangement did not cause any resentment between the two singers: "[I]t's all totally good, it's just that when we are playing, Milo couldn't be All's singer, cause Chad is All's singer. So, we decided that we could be Descendents with Milo, and All with Chad. It's not really a reunion, we've been together the whole time."<ref name="FAQ"/> Aukerman described his decision to rejoin the band as "really just my re-entry into the song writing, I had been away for so long and I just wanted to make music which is what I love to do."<ref name="FAQ"/>

''Everything Sucks'' was recorded in June and July 1996 at [[The Blasting Room]], a studio built and run by Stevenson in [[Fort Collins, Colorado]].<ref name="Everything Sucks">{{cite AV media notes |title=Everything Sucks |others=Descendents |year=1996 |type=CD liner |publisher=[[Epitaph Records]] |id=86418-2 |location=[[Los Angeles, California]]}}</ref> Original Descendents members Tony Lombardo and Frank Navetta made appearances on the album: Navetta wrote the song "Doghouse" and both he and Lombardo played on it, marking the first recording by the original Descendents lineup of Aukerman, Lombardo, Navetta, and Stevenson since ''[[Milo Goes to College]]'' in 1982.<ref name="Everything Sucks"/> Lombardo also played on "Eunuch Boy", a song he and Aukerman had written fifteen years earlier. According to Aukerman: {{" '}}Eunuch Boy' is the first song I ever wrote, really. When we formed, Tony Lombardo, the original bass player said, 'Dude- you need to write some songs,' and I had never written a song before so I just wrote down some words and brought it to him. He made the music for it."<ref name="FAQ"/> Lombardo also wrote and played on "Gotta", which was left off of the album but released as a [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] on the "[[When I Get Old]]" single. Chad Price sang backing vocals on the album, while Stevenson and Egerton produced and engineered it.<ref name="Everything Sucks"/>

All had previously been signed to major label [[Interscope Records]] for 1995's ''[[Pummel (album)|Pummel]]'', but were dissatisfied with the experience.<ref name="Steininger">{{cite web |last=Steininger |first=Alex |title=Interview with Bill Stevenson |publisher=In Music We Trust |date=August 1998 |url=http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/11h01.html |access-date=February 13, 2010}}</ref> Both All and the Descendents signed to [[Epitaph Records]], who released ''Everything Sucks'', the subsequent All albums ''[[Mass Nerder]]'' (1998) and ''[[Problematic (All album)|Problematic]]'' (2000), and the All/Descendents double live album ''[[Live Plus One]]'' (2001). It was rumored that Epitaph would not sign All without getting the Descendents as well,<ref name="Raggett5">{{cite web |last=Raggett |first=Ned |title=Review: ''Everything Sucks'' |website=[[AllMusic]] |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r240874|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=February 13, 2010}}</ref> but Stevenson explained that the arrangement was made because Epitaph head [[Brett Gurewitz]] would allow both bands to make albums at their discretion:

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When we signed with Epitaph it was for both bands. It was a thing of knowing Brett forever, and so I just sat down and said, "Well, we want to make records!" At the time we were leaving Interscope. We weren't happy with Interscope at all. So we sat down and told them we wanted to make both All and Descendents records whenever we want, at our choosing. Brett and I worked out a deal like that, so it was really flexible and we could basically do whatever we wanted.<ref name="Steininger"/>
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The Descendents supported ''Everything Sucks'' with a series of tours from September 1996 to August 1997 covering the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe, touring with [[Swingin' Utters]], [[the Bouncing Souls]], [[the Suicide Machines]], [[Shades Apart]], [[Guttermouth]], [[Less Than Jake]], [[Handsome (band)|Handsome]], [[Electric Frankenstein]], [[Social Distortion]], [[Pennywise (band)|Pennywise]], [[H2O (American band)|H<sub>2</sub>O]], and others.<ref name="Tours">{{cite web |title=Show Archive |publisher=Descendents |work=descendentsonline.com |url=http://www.descendentsonline.com/archive/shows/ |access-date=February 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207044805/http://www.descendentsonline.com/archive/shows/ |archive-date=February 7, 2010  }}</ref> Music videos were filmed for "[[I'm the One (Descendents song)|I'm the One]]" and "[[When I Get Old]]", and both songs were released as singles in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title = I'm the One|publisher = [[MTV]]|work = mtv.com|url = http://www.mtv.com/videos/descendents/307179/im-the-one.jhtml#artist=770|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090807143653/http://www.mtv.com/videos/descendents/307179/im-the-one.jhtml#artist=770|url-status = dead|archive-date = August 7, 2009|access-date = January 31, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = When I Get Old|publisher = [[Epitaph Records]]|url = http://www.epitaph.com/videos/player/596|access-date = January 31, 2010|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100108051619/http://www.epitaph.com/videos/player/596|archive-date = January 8, 2010|df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = I'm the One|publisher = [[Epitaph Records]]|url = http://www.epitaph.com/artists/album/64/Im_The_One|access-date = January 31, 2010|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090221112207/http://www.epitaph.com/artists/album/64/Im_The_One|archive-date = February 21, 2009|df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = When I Get Old|publisher = [[Epitaph Records]]|url = http://www.epitaph.com/artists/album/65/When_I_Get_Old|access-date = January 31, 2010|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090418035045/http://www.epitaph.com/artists/album/65/When_I_Get_Old|archive-date = April 18, 2009|df = mdy-all}}</ref>