Eight Hours Away from Being a Man became a prominent album in the indie rock, emo and Christian underground music scenes.
They had already written and recorded another album, called I Am the Day of Current Taste, which was released several months after their breakup.
Examples of such songs included "Sperm Ridden Burden" (which Lorig said Ford wrote about seeing a child on a bus who was being raised by a single mother[citation needed]) and "O. J. Simpson House Auction" (the news on television when Lorig was looking for the title to the song he was working on[citation needed]).
as being key contributors to the original emo sub-culture and sound of indie rock which existed in the mid to late nineties.
In addition, their unusual guitar parts, abnormal rhythms, and abrupt tempo changes, topped off by Lorig's emotional vocals[citation needed], gained them acclaim[citation needed] and made the band's style almost unable to be labeled[by whom?].