"Something" sets the lyrics of the band's early 80's original song to the music and arrangement of The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Never Understand." "P.S.Y." has lyrics sung on the album version that are hardly ever heard during live performances, making it a more of a jam song.
Parents Just Don't Understand | ...But the Little Girls Understand | You Just Don't Understand | The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall | Never Understand | Losers, Kings and Things We Don't Understand |
Novelist Mickey Spillane, who began his career in comics and worked at Funnies, Inc., recalled in 2006 that, "Our boss, Lloyd Jacquet, a dead ringer for Douglas MacArthur (corncob pipe and all), was a wonderful man, but could never understand living among wildcat writers and artists. All of us were pretty much freelance people, so firing us would have been a useless gesture".
The Shys' new album "You'll Never Understand This Band The Way That I Do" was released on July 22, 2008, on local Echo Park Indie label Aeronaut Records.