Discussing "Know It All", guitarist Sean Dewey explained that it was "constructive criticism, towards people who are involved in the whole scene and they like certain bands at certain times.

Trashed was also released in the same year as Green Day's Dookie, Bad Religion’s Stranger than Fiction, NOFX's Punk in Drublic, and The Offspring's Smash, which are all widely considered to be the most important and successful albums of the 1990s California punk scene era.

New York melodic hardcore punk band After the Fall has a song called "1994", which mentions Trashed and other albums released that year.

Trashed includes a cover of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" on track 10.

In the center of the trash is a photograph of the Lagwagon members wearing soccer uniforms with their band logo on the shirts.