Greig: "It’s two sets of riffs I had hanging around forever that I thought would eventually become separate songs. Then Derek from Sum 41 suggested I put them together. It was a major breakthough, because the melody and the rest of the song came out amazingly fast after that."
Bill: "It was the first song on Greig’s demo and everybody loved it right away."
Bill: "It’s another uptempo Greig song with an extremely cool guitar riff at the beginning."
Rosie: "And a very nice ending thanks to Bill."
Bill: "You’re welcome."
Greig: "It was an incomplete chunk for the longest time. I had everything up to the chorus and then had the toughest time. If you don’t force yourself to finish a song right then and there it can be a struggle when you return to it. But I love it, because when I finally listened to it again, the chorus just naturally came out."
Bill: "My most heavy-metal guitar lead ever, achieved through smoke and mirrors."
Bill: "This is the only song of mine written when we were still touring the last album. We rocked out on the first part it about a year ago at a soundcheck. I was based on the line `No matter how you explain it, it doesn’t look good from where I’m standing’ and it just went from there. It’s a very Sloan-Weezerish tune."
Greig: "I wrote this when we had just finished our last album with Matt in California, so it was too late to record something new. I phoned home and put it on my answering machine as a whistle with acoustic guitar. I kept re-saving that song for two years until this album … and then I completely forgot about it! Near the end of recording Detox I was sitting around and suddenly thought — Ohmygod, there’s this great song I’ve been saving for years. Now I have the original whistle tune saved on my computer."
Bill: "This is our very first shuffly song …. Hey, Trevor, what’s the technical name for that beat?"
Trevor: "A shuffle."
Bill: "I camehome from pre-production one night and I wanted to write a power ballad, but everything I worked on sounded like Creed. I was complaining to my wife and she said, `Stop, it’s midnight and you’re too stressed out.’ So I watched some TV, then went upstairs, grabbed the guitar and the song came out in a jumble. When Matt picked me up the next morning I was so excited, I played it for him on the guitar and he said, `Hmm. I don’t get it.’ So when I got home that night I worked on a demo until 4 in the morning and when I played that for Matt he said, `This one is great.’ So it was a very satisfying experience.
Bill: "Greig came in with this slow power ballad, which will be our monster second single cross-over hit."
Rosie: "Matt and I had a lot of fun working on the bass part, changing it from something kind of square-sounding to a really cool groove."
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Greig: "A friend of mine had just discovered The Pixies for the first time and it was an awesome thing to observe, because I remember how I felt when I encountered their music in the late ’80s. My friend was going `Wow, where did this amazing band come from?" So I was bitten by the big, got right back into the Pixies and wanted to write a song that was inspired by that spirit."
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Bill: "It is always my dubious honour to have the last song on the record. I don’t have any of my typical slow ballads on Detox, so this is my magnum opus. It’s a musical journey, with a half-time heavy-metal bridge and the a quarter-time stoner rock with slide-guitar coda that is longer than the rest of the song! There are lots of mysterious sounds but I’m afraid.