Producing "The Month of May" brought a special challenge. "If I wanted," says Michael, "I probably could have mixed the song straight, as a translation of the live sound. But there were too many possibilities in exaggerating the difference between the bumptious verses and gentlemanly choruses." For verses, Charlie's drumming was chopped up, layered, looped, mixed with percussion samples from onetime collaborator Eric Wahl, "with intent to create a kit that sounded twenty feet tall."