I first heard No Pocky for Kitty around '93 or so, while hanging out at the pool at my ex's house. (It was the house he grew up in. Nothing that extravagant ... "hanging out at the pool" sounds very fancy!) I was immediately taken with the punk energy and melodicism, both which reminded me of the very early Green Day stuff (I was a big fan of 39/Smooth; a skater friend had made me a dub of it my freshman year of college and it was probably the first exposure I had to any sort of pop-punk music). Superchunk then led me to the Chapel Hill indie scene ... Zen Frisbee, Pipe, Jennyanykind, Archers of Loaf ... I'm not sure I would have heard of any of them without first getting so into that 'chunk record. It also made me aware of Merge Records, still one of my favorite labels. Seeing what they did to put the Chapel Hill scene on the map was a big inspiration for me starting my own label back in 2000. I feel like the whole thing came full circle when I met Jerry Kee around 2000 or so. He engineered the very first Superchunk album and now I'm super stoked to be making the next Good Graces album with him. No Pocky remains one of my favorite albums and was truly life changing for me! – Kim Ware (of Kim Ware and the Good Graces; cofounder of Kimono My House)