10 Things You Didn't Know About Does This Look Infected by Sum 41

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10 Things You Didn't Know About Does This Look Infected by Sum 41

Did you know that Sum 41 front-man Deryck Whibley "hates" the band's second full-length album? Or why the punk rock band made a tough decision to stop drinking while on tour? Or which song from the album is more relevant today than ever before?

1. Stevo the Zombie

Drummer Steve Jocz, is affectionately known as "Stevo" No, he's not the same Steve-O from Jackass Although we hear he is quite a character in his own right. Take the album cover for example, where he can be seen wearing the zombie mask with fake blood pouring down his face. A photograph which was created months before a title was decided upon.

Speaking of which... The album cover has always reminded me of the popular John Travolta and Nicholas Cage film from the 90s.
(I want to take his face-- off)

3. Deryck Whibley "Hates" the Album

Ok, so hate is a strong word. But front-man Deryck Whibley has confessed that he is quite unhappy with the way the album was mixed.

"I've always, always hated the way this album sounds. I hated it in the studio and it still bothers me. The demo I made myself at home sounded better than the final mix... And it’s not anybody’s fault necessarily. I don’t think I knew enough of how to explain what I wanted to the mixer... I wouldn’t redo anything. It’s all there. It just needs to be mixed right." - Sum 41's Deryck Whibley looks back..., Deryck Whibley; AZCentral, April 29, 2018

4. Party Poopers

Normally people associate punk rock tours with a party animal atmosphere. However, the band stopped drinking and staying up late while on tour promoting All Killer, No Filler to record their second album.
In 2008, Stevo told MTV: "When we realized the recording time was coming up, we actually stopped partying... That made touring a whole different world... It's strange to spend the last two months on the road and go, 'Well, it looks like I'm going to bed early again, and I'll be up all day,' because, usually, you don't really have much to do until the show... So if you drink all night, you'll sleep all day until you're about to go on. And that occupies, like, 18 hours of the day. Then you only have to be up for one." Steve Jocz, - D'Angelo, Joe. "Sum 41: Testing Their Metal (Part 2)". MTV. April 8, 2008.

5. War in Iraq

"Still Waiting" is an anti-war song.

"“Still Waiting” was all about George W. Bush and going into Iraq and what a disaster it was gonna be. It was an anti-war, anti-Bush song... And I didn’t explain it. I didn’t talk about it in interviews... In those days, there was so much focus on our humor and our drummer at that time... He was always the joking guy. So that became the focus of our interviews. We never really spoke about the music. And a lot of those themes I was trying to talk about, they never really came across." - Deryck Whibley; Sum 41's Deryck Whibley looks back..., AZCentral, April 29, 2018

7. Anna Nicole Smith

Speaking of diss tracks... "A.N.I.C." or "A**hole" depending on which version of the album you're looking at, is a tribute to Anna Nicole Smith.
The former Playboy Playmate received a lot of attention in the early 00s for her notorious marriage to a wealthy senior citizen who she was often accused of marrying just for his money. The band stopped performing the song following her drug overdose in 2007. However, as of 2012, the band seem to have returned to including the song in their sets.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_This_Look_Infected%3F

D'Angelo, Joe. "Sum 41: Testing Their Metal (Part 2)". MTV. April 8, 2008. - https://web.archive.org/web/20080408214754/http://www.mtv.com/bands/s/sum_41/news_feature_080202/index3.jhtml
Sum 41's Deryck Whibley looks back..., AZCentral, April 29, 2018 - https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2018/04/19/sum-41-deryck-whibley-interview-does-look-infected-anniversary-tour/530458002/

Sum 41 Sober Up On 'Does This Look Infected?, Wiederhorn, Jon, MTV, (Nov 14, 2002) - https://www.mtv.com/news/81tfiy/sum-41-sober-up-on-does-this-look-infected

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007437/Supreme-Court-rules-estate-Anna-Nicole-Smith-brings-end-fight-late-husbands-fortune.html

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