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Milo Goes to College

Milo Goes to College
A grey album cover has the band name "Descendents" in large, bold, capital letters across the top. Across the bottom, in smaller capital letters, is the title "Milo Goes to College". In the center of the cover is a line drawing caricature of singer Milo Aukerman, illustrated from the shoulders up wearing a collared shirt and tie. His neck is slender and curves out as it heads upward, ending at the rims of a pair of rectangular glasses. The top of his head is not drawn, but his hair is represented by a series of short vertical lines above the glasses. His eyes and nostrils are represented by small black dots, and his mouth by a horizontal line drawn across the neck.
The Milo character drawn by Jeff Atkinson for the cover became a mascot for the band, and was reinterpreted by other artists on several later releases.
Studio album by the Descendents
Released 1982 (1982)
Recorded June 1982
Studio Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
Genre Melodic hardcore, hardcore punk, punk rock
Length 22:10
Label New Alliance (NAR-012)
Producer Spot
Descendents chronology
Fat EP
(1981)		 Milo Goes to College
(1982)		 I Don't Want to Grow Up
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau A−
Rolling Stone (favorable)
Punknews.org 4.5/5 stars
Sputnikmusic 4.5/5 stars
Tiny Mix Tapes (favorable)

Milo Goes to College is the first full-length album by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released in 1982 through New Alliance Records. Its title referred to singer Milo Aukerman's decision to leave the band to attend college, and its cover illustration introduced a caricature of him that would go on to become the band's mascot. It was the Descendents' last record with founding guitarist Frank Navetta, who quit the band during the hiatus that followed its release.

The album's mix of fast and aggressive hardcore punk with melody and cheeky love songs led to it being considered one of the most significant albums of the early 1980s southern California hardcore movement. In the decades since its release it has received positive reviews and been counted among the most noteworthy punk albums by several publications. Milo Goes to College has been cited as influential and a favorite by several notable artists and musicians.

The Descendents' 1981 Fat EP had established the band's presence in the southern California hardcore punk movement with its short, fast, aggressive songs. While still short and fast, the songs the band wrote for their first full-length album were also melodic, described by singer Milo Aukerman as melodic hardcore. "I think with those songs we were expanding beyond the kind of fast-fast-fast-fast thing", he later recalled. "There are some of the similar coffee-driven songs, but I know that melodically there was actually an attempt at singing and making more pop-flavored music. Obviously we all really loved that, growing up with The Beatles and stuff." Drummer Bill Stevenson reflected that "By the time we recorded Milo Goes to College the pendulum swung somewhere maybe in the middle. There's a lot of melodic and pop elements to it, but it also has that [sense of] bitter resentment."


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