Before Everything & After

Studio album by MxPx

Released

September 16, 2003

Genre

Pop punk, punk rock

Length

47:04

Label

A&M

Producer

Ron Fair
Dave Jerden

MxPx chronology

Ten Years and Running
(2002)

Before Everything & After
(2003)

Panic
(2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Before Everything & After is the 2003 release from Christian Punk band MxPx, released on A&M Records. The album achieved the band's highest ever chart position on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 51.^[2]

1 Track listing
2 Trivia
3 Credits
4 Charts
5 References

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Mike Herrera.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Before"	0:20
2.	"Play It Loud"	3:18
3.	"Well Adjusted"	3:39
4.	"It's Alright" (featuring Benji Madden of Good Charlotte)	3:01
5.	"Brokenhearted" (Featuring Kris Roe of The Ataris)	2:10
6.	"First Day of the Rest of Our Lives"	3:01
7.	"Everything Sucks (When You're Gone)"	2:57
8.	"Quit Your Life"	3:38
9.	"More Everything"	2:50
10.	"Kings of Hollywood" (Featuring Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory)	3:41
11.	"The Capitol"	2:50
12.	"On the Outs" (Featuring Benji Madden of Good Charlotte)	3:11
13.	"Don't Walk Away"	3:59
14.	"You Make Me, Me"	3:06
15.	"You're Not Alone" (Featuring Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory)	3:40
16.	"After"	1:43
17.	"Family Affair" (Japanese Bonus Track)	3:57

Trivia

"Play It Loud" was featured on the SSX3 soundtrack and the Hilary Duff movie Raise Your Voice.
The album cover is a possible tribute to the cover of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers, which does not show hands. Another possible tribute is to the cover of Chocolate and Cheese by Ween.
Portions of the Japanese bonus track "Family Affair" appear on the track "Before" although "Family Affair" was not released on the U.S. version of the record.
"First Day of the Rest of Our Lives" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie A Cinderella Story
There is a backwards message toward the end of the song "It's Alright." When reversed there is a guy saying "And then one night, I just jumped off."
"Well Adjusted" was featured in a pepsi commercial

Credits

Mike Herrera - bass guitar, Vocals
Tom Wisniewski - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Guitar (Acoustic)
Yuri Ruley- Cymbals, Drums, Percussion
Jordan Pundik (New Found Glory)- Backup Vocals
Benji Madden (Good Charlotte)- Backup Vocals
Kris Roe (The Ataris)- Backup Vocals
Ron Fair - Executive Producer
Dave Jerden - Producer, Mixing
Steve Duda - Keyboards
Phil Shenale - Keyboards, String Arrangements
Brian Hall - Guitar Technician
Annette Cisneros - Engineer
George Marino - Mastering
Tom Lord-Alge - Mixing
Chris Lord-Alge - Mixing
Ben Grosse - Mixing
Elan Trujillo - Assistant
F. Scott Schafer - Photography
Marc Rhea - Studio Technician

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2003	The Billboard 200^[2]	51

References

MxPx

Mike Herrera • Tom Wisniewski • Yuri Ruley • Chris Wilson Andy Husted

Studio albums	Pokinatcha (1994) • Teenage Politics (1995) • Life In General (1996) • Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo (1998) • The Ever Passing Moment (2000) • Before Everything & After (2003) • Panic (2005) • Secret Weapon (2007) • On the Cover II (2009) • Punk Rawk Christmas (2009) • Plans Within Plans (2012)

EPs	On the Cover (1995) • Move to Bremerton (1996) • Small Town Minds (1997) • The Broken Bones (2000) • The Renaissance (2001) • The AC/EP (2004) • Left Coast Punk EP (2009)

Compilations	Let It Happen (1998) • Ten Years and Running (2002) • Let's Rock (2006) • The Ultimate Collection (2008)

Live albums	At the Show (1999)

Video	It Came from Bremerton (VHS, 2000) • B-Movie (DVD, 2004) • Triple Threat (DVD, 2009)

Singles	"Chick Magnet" • "Responsibility" • "Heard That Sound"

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