[2] Encouraged by Peter Karroll and John Zazula of Megaforce Records, they decided to cut a live album to have new material when their contract with Epitaph expired.

[2] They interspersed stage banter and crowd noise from a show in The Starfish Room with an identical set list, while recording the instrumental tracks and vocals in the studio.

Guitarist Brent Belke later noted that the band overdubbed sitar into the song "Reality Is a Ride on the Bus" "just to see if anyone was paying attention.

Shortly before its release, founding guitarist Brent Belke and longtime drummer Dave Rees quit.

Writing a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Vincent Jeffries calls the album "less [of a] self-indulgent 'best-of' compilation" than a document that "captures the zealous insanity of SNFU in their element.