Song descriptions:
Spin :: (first single) Jason: The lyrics and chorus for this were actually written when I was 16. I first played it for [producer] Ron [Aniello] while he was cooking a steak, and he said he didn't like it. I tried to write a bridge and just couldn't, but I kept working on it. When I finally brought the song back to him, he loved it. I was going through some negative things back then, but I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'd met Ron, I was making music and I was starting to figure out where I was going. I started getting excited because I realized I didn't have to regret everything that had happened to me in the past. I could tell good things were starting to happen.
Wash :: Jason: "You wash over me like the rain/ You wash over me like the sunshine" - the truth is, you can't have one without the other. You can't truly know happiness without having experienced sadness. A lot of the guitar sounds I got on this record came about by experimentation, which was very cool. I turned all these frequency distortion pedals up at the same time and started playing these harmonics and weird wah-wah things, and some crazy stuff just came out of it. I went back into the studio later and tried to duplicate it, but I couldn't.
Stanley Climbfall :: Jason: We decided to call the album "Stanley Climbfall" because the phrase seems to sum up how this is an action record. It's about movement. The character of Stanley Climbfall represents "stand, climb, fall." And that, to me, is life. You're gonna be up, you're gonna be down, you're gonna be everywhere in between.
