Who came up with the name Phantom Planet?
Alex Greenwald: I brought the name to the band and asked if it was cool if we used it. I still keep a really messy room and I ll find the most random things on the floor or under my bed that people leave over and forget, I guess because my room is so messy. I found a laser pen that year. Anyway, I found this CD, it was Neil Norman s Science Fiction s Greatest Hits, and it was these disco versions of all these sci-fi songs. The one song that I really liked and the band really liked was called “Phantom Planet,” but the funny part about that is that there were no numbers on the back of the album and I counted wrong. So the song we actually liked was called “Godzilla.” We thought the name represented us at the time, [because] we all did the band pretty much full time, skipped out on school and lost friends cause of it and were being like ghosts. Obviously you ve done a lot of growing since your debut album Phantom Planet is Missing, how do you think you ve matured musically? AG: I kind of
