Recorded in two days[6] around February to September 2002[7] on a low budget, the rushed schedule left the band discontent and ceasing to call it their debut album.

[8][9] The photograph on the cover of this album was shot by Adeet Deshmukh in Chicago's Pick Me Up Café located at 3408 N. Clark Street.

After the release, he left the band, and Andy Hurley would join as the current drummer and record the follow-up album Take This to Your Grave (2003).

[12] Songs from Evening Out were played by the band in their early shows to a small local audience before they received mainstream attention.

"Calm Before the Storm" was later re-recorded with additions to the arrangement, including backing vocals (screaming) from bassist Pete Wentz, for the follow-up album Take This to Your Grave later that year.

Different recordings of "Switchblades and Infidelity", "Growing Up" and "Moving Pictures" were released on the band's Project Rocket / Fall Out Boy split EP.

Many reviewers, including AllMusic, consider Take This to Your Grave as Fall Out Boy's first album, possibly due to Evening Out with Your Girlfriend being a mini-LP and not a full-length release, or unknown.

Also, in the lyric booklet of Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits, the band begins with the making of Take This to Your Grave, completely omitting Evening Out with Your Girlfriend.