With very little transition time, the second Stü Art album picks up where the first (Stü Art) left off. As those sessions ended, Mike and Jim had just started composing pieces with slightly more traditional song structure and more integrated instrumentation. Men Attempt Trans-Atlantic Swimming Feat furthers those explorations and results in a modest evolution. The album's title refers to an "event" that occurred at the same time this album was being recorded, where a French swimmer named Guy Delage claimed to have swum across the Atlantic Ocean. That theme was picked up in the homage to this individual, "Guy Delage". Interestingly, Jim was aware of the proper pronunciation of Mr. Delage's first name prior to recording. "I Wanna Records" was a point of early pride in the Stü Art catalog. The song lyrics listed numerous small independent record labels with whom the band was familiar, including the label that was the title of the song. I Wanna Records was a Dayton label that released material by bands including: the Obvious, Guided by Voices, and more. As with the first album, Men Attempt Trans-Atlantic Swimming Feat was not duplicated and distributed until the compilation Fly me a....