Recording, Themes, and Releases
The Fat EP was recorded in March 1981 at Music Lab studios in Hollywood with producer Spot, and was released later that year through New Alliance Records. "Weinerschnitzel", titled after the fast-food chain, is the shortest song on the EP at ten seconds, with Lombardo playing the role of the restaurant's counterman while Aukerman shouts his food order at him. The sixteen-second "I Like Food" also takes food as its topic, with Aukerman shouting out the names of various foodstuffs. "Mr. Bass" tells the story of a bass being caught during a fishing trip onboard the Orca and being mounted on the fisherman's wall.
Following its initial release on New Alliance, the EP was reissued in several versions and as part of compilation albums over the next ten years. In 1985 New Alliance re-released it as part of the Bonus Fat compilation, pairing it with the tracks from "Ride the Wild" / "It's a Hectic World" and "Global Probing" from a New Alliance/SST Records compilation titled Chunks. In 1987 New Alliance was sold to SST, who re-released Bonus Fat on EP, cassette, and compact disc. In 1988 it was paired with the band's debut album Milo Goes to College as Two Things at Once. "My Dad Sucks", "I Like Food", and "Weinerschnitzel" were also included on the 1991 career retrospective Somery.
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