After releasing their second album
Boogadaboogadaboogada! in late 1988, drummer Steve Cheese left the band because he was unwilling to tour and was replaced with Brian McQuade (renamed "Brian Vermin"). The band then went on the "No Showers 'til Gainesville" tour with local band Spongetunnel, which vocalist
Ben Weasel called a "minor disaster" as the two bands argued constantly. Tensions grew within Screeching Weasel at the last show of the tour and, two weeks later, bassist Warren Fish left the band. Fish was replaced by
Dan Schafer (renamed "Sewercap" and later known as "Dan Vapid"), a fan of Screeching Weasel's who had been the singer for various local
hardcore bands. Before starting their next tour, the band decided to record an EP and went to Studio One in
Chicago in April 1989. Mike Potential, founder of the fanzine
Limited Potential, served as producer/engineer and opted to release the EP on his new label Limited Potential Records. The entire EP was recorded without
John Jughead's guitar, due to him being stranded in downstate
Illinois. When Jughead finally made it to the sessions, the other members made him hurry recording his parts and did not notice that his guitar was out of tune with the other guitars on the recordings. Weasel later called Potential a "terrible engineer" and cited the recording quality of the EP, and him writing the lyrics to the songs while drunk, as why
Punkhouse is his least favorite Screeching Weasel release. ==Track listing==