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Track List：
01. We Called It America
02. The Quitter
03. First Call
04. My Orphan Year
05. Blasphemy (The Victimless Crime)
06. Creeping Out Sara
07. Eddie, Bruce and Paul
08. Best God In Show
09. Suits and Ladders
10. The Agony of Victory
11. I Am an Alcoholic
12. One Million Coasters

Although they've built their long career on a foundation of jokey, melodic punk rock, California mainstay NOFX have slowly but surely allowed a surprising depth to enter their songwriting. Their 11th album, COASTER, recorded yet again for their own successful Fat Wreck Chords label, certainly has its goofy moments, such as the Tegan & Sara-baiting "Creeping Out Sara" and the Christian-skewering reggae of "Best God in Show," but their sardonic wit is now often used for larger purposes. Songs like the autobiographical "My Orphan Year," about the death of singer Fat Mike's parents, and the gritty street-punk of "We Called it America" display a sharper grasp of adult concerns than NOFX are generally given credit for. No matter how serious they get, however, the music is, as always, exhilarating, top-flight punk reminiscent of '80s SoCal giants like the Descendents and Adolescents.Alternative Press (p.97) - "Solid, creative, urgent albums like COASTER cement the fact that whenever someone gets around to opening a Punk Rock Hall Of Fame, NOFX should be in its inaugural class."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.55) - "'We Called It America' might be the best song the band have written."

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A sequel to their first live album, I HEARD THEY SUCK LIVE, THEY'VE ACTUALLY GOTTEN WORSE represents a kind of victory lap for long-running slob-punks NOFX. They've been together for a seeming eternity in a genre that doesn't always treasure ... Full Descriptionlongevity, evolving into both elder statesman of and political conscience to a scene full of kids. The joke of the title, of course, is that the band sounds as tight and energized as veteran players should sound. The lowbrow anthem "Amy is a Crack Whore" and reggae rave-up "Beat the Meek" sound perfectly at home next to political screeds "Murder the Government" and "Yer Wrong". Really, it all just sounds like NOFX.

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Tracklist
01. 60%
02. USA-holes
03. seeing double at the triple rock
04. we march to the beat of of indifferent drum
05. the marxist brothers
06. the man i killed
07. benny go blowed up
08. leaving jesusland
09. getting high on the down low
10. cool and unusual punishment
11. wolves in wolves' clothing
12. cantando en espanol
13. 100 times fuckeder
14. instant crassic
15. you will lose faith
16. one celled creature
17. doornails
18. 60% (reprise)

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Tracklist

01 Dinosaurs Will Die 02 Linoleum 03 Bob 04 The Separation of Church and Skate 05 Murder the Government 06 Bleeding Heart Disease 07 Bottles To The Ground 08 180 Degrees 09 Party Enema 10 What’s The Matter with Kids Today 11 Reeko 12 Stickin In My Eye 13 All Outta Angst 14 Leave It Alone

15 Green Corn 16 The Longest Line 17 Thank God It’s Monday 18 The Idiots Are Taking Over 19 Don’t Call Me White 20 Day To Daze 21 Soul Doubt 22 Philthy Phil Philanthropist 23 Shut Up Already 24 It’s My Job To Keep Punk Rock Elite 25 Franco Un-American 26 Kill All The White Man 27 Wore Out Soles Of My Party Boots*

All Music Guide Review
Twenty years is a long time for any band, let alone one that plays jocular warp-speed anthems with titles like "Party Enema" and "Green Corn." Nevertheless, here it is, NOFX's typically self-deprecating Greatest Songs Ever Written: By Us. Entertaining liner notes trace the combo's history in photos, drawings, Xeroxed show bills, and Fat Mike's own scribbled narration; 26 tracks take you from NOFX's first full-lengths in the 1980s through their somewhat surprising, yet still snarky political awakening with 2003's War on Errorism. ("Franco-Unamerican" rhymes "Michael Moore" and "Awful Truth" with "Public Enemy" and "Regan Youth.") As the entire release is an admission of their age, it's no surprise that Greatest Songs Ever's lone new song grapples with the relevancy of playing punk music to quitting drinking and getting old. But the comp also proves the consistency of Fat Mike's songwriting, with highlights including "Linoleum," "What's the Matter With Kids Today," "Thank God It's Monday," and "It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite." While the nonchronological set order is a little trying, and there's nothing from the band's earliest 7"s, Greatest Songs Ever Written: By Us

is still a fun look back at NOFX's colorful career, and a validation of their veteran status. That has to count for something in the Warped Tour parents' tent. - Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide.

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Tracklist
01. The Separation of Church and Skate
02. The Irrationality of Rationality
03. Franco Un-American
04. Idiots are Taking Over
05. She's Nubs
06. Mattersville
07. Decom-posuer
08. Medio-core
09. Anarchy Camp
10. American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters)
11. We Got Two Jealous Agains
12. 13 Stitches
13. Re-gaining Unconciousness
14. Whoops, I OD'd


War on Errorism, NOFX's umpteenth collection of snide skatecore, is a half-great collection of the bratty double-time anthems dominated by Fat Mike's snotty, sarcastic vocals. But while the album bristles with broad political criticism, it also lays out rhetoric that seems to present an isolationist punk rock policy of its own. Included with War on Errorism is the trailer for Unprecedented, a documentary that traces the bizarre events of the 2000 presidential election. This is accompanied by a handwritten op-ed piece by Fat Mike, Smelly, El Hefe, and Melvin, in which the band does a little consciousness raising around the vert ramp. "The U.S. is now the butt of a worldwide joke," they write, in reference to the election hullabaloo. "All everyone keeps saying is 'get over it' or 'that was so two years ago.' Well, we're not getting over it and neither should you." Musically, NOFX fuses its political cynicism with criticism of punk rock itself, and suggests that the best thing for all the kids and the bands might be to close ranks and start their own little hardcore community. &"Irrationality of Rationality" and &"Franco Un-American" -- two of the album's most melodic, catchy songs -- are also two of War on Errorism's most biting commentaries. The first personalizes the trickle-down effect of corporate decision-making over a lockstep hardcore rhythm; the second gets all new wavy as Fat Mike reasons out his own world view, and somehow rhymes "apathy" with "Noam Chomsky." While NOFX makes its politics clear throughout the album, it also has ideas and questions about its own scene. &"Separation of Church and Skate" wonders about the homogeny of punk in the 21st century, and the loss of danger in rock & roll. Later, &"Mattersville" presents the blueprint for a California hardcore retirement community, a neighborhood of punks, where the cops can't come in and there's always beer and cheese. It's a fantasy, an update of Screeching Weasel's &"Punkhouse." But it might also be a reaction to the heady subjects bandied about in War on Errorism's activist moments. In a subdivision surrounded by bands, punks, and skaters, no one would have to worry about bombs, evildoers, and those who put the "mock" back in "democracy" (from the seething &"Re-gaining Unconsciousness"). War on Errorism is long on rhetoric, but it still fires off a few uncontrolled bursts of NOFX humor. &"She's Nubs" is a crass yet sadly hilarious tribute to a handicapped fan; &"Medio-core" channels the Dead Milkmen as it rips on rock & roll's ongoing regurgitation. The songs don't exactly jibe with War on Errorism's more serious sections. But if NOFX suddenly became all serious, America might really have a problem on its hands. Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide.

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Tracklist
Disc one - counting sheep
01 Pimps And Hookers
02 All Of Me
03 We Threw Gasoline on the Fire...
04 Drugs Are Good
05 Lower
06 Forming
07 Electricity
08 Lazy
09 The Plan
10 Timmy The Turtle
11 Punk Song
12 See Her Pee
13 Zyclone B Bathhouse
14 Last Caress
15 Bath Of Least Resistance
16 We Ain't Shit
17 San Francisco Fat
18 Vincent
19 Pump Up The Valium
20 Pods And Gods
21 Eat The Meek (Dub Mix)

Disc two - catching zzz's
01 Fun Things To Fuck
02 Juice Head
03 Three on Speed
04 New Happy Birthday Song?
05 Talking 'Bout Yo Mama
06 Party Enema
07 Can't Get The Stink Out
08 Go To Work Wasted
09 Fuck The Kids
10 Whoa On The Whoas
11 Puke On Cops
12 I Gotta Pee
13 Totally Fucked
14 Fuck The Kids
15 Fuck The Kids II
16 I'm Telling Tim
17 Reagan Sucks
18 Posuer
19 My Name's Bud
20 Two On Glue
21 Please Stop Fucking My Mom
22 Murder The Government
23 Stranger The Fishin'
24 Eric Melvin vs. PCP
25 Always Hate Hippies

45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records has to be one of the longest, and greatest, album titles of all time. However, for you pedants out there, it's also far from accurate. These songs may not have been up to NOFX album standards, but all, bar one, were considered worthy for release on 7" singles, EPs, or compilations. And that one exception is a new song. All told, this comes close to bringing together much of the group's vinyl-only releases and tough to find numbers from indie compilations. Close, but obviously not all, as Fat Mike chose to deliberately omit songs so as not to wreck the "coolness" value of owning the originals. Of course, all 47 (to be precise) of these songs could have fit onto a single CD, but again, Mike wisely decided that was a bit much to handle in one sitting, and tossed them onto two discs. So what do you get? The Europe-only single "Drugs Are Good," "Thalidomide Child," the bonus track from their 1984 demo tape, most of the Fuck the Kids and Suffer EPs, the Fat Club-only "Zyclone B Bathhouse," their offerings to Epitaph's Punk-O-Rama compilation series, 1994's "We Ain't Shitty," and a very cool dub mix of "Eat the Meek." There's also a clutch of whacked covers, from the Germs' "Forming" and the Misfits' "Last Caress," both from tribute comps, to Don McLean's "Vincent" and the hilarious take on OMD's "Electricity." And so on, and on. Of course, NOFX's hardcore fans have all of these already, but it's a boon for the rest of the group's followers, even if, as Fat Mike insists, some of these are true throwaways. As usual, the singing bassist also plays compere and, across the copious CD booklet, gives the songs' histories, background, and lyrics. Oh yeah, the new song rocks as well. - Jo-Ann Greene, All Music Guide.

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Tracklist
1. And Now For Something Completely Similar
2. Take Two Placebos and Call Me Lame
3. What's the Matter With Parents Today?
4. Dinosaurs Will Die
5. Thank God It's Monday
6. Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't)
7. Louise
8. Stranger Than Fishin
9. Pharmacist's Daughter
10. Bottles to the Ground
11. Total Bummer
12. My Vagina
13. Herojuana
14. Theme From a NOFX Album 

PUMP UP THE VALUUM is just one more episode in NoFx's perfectly arrested development. The band begins its umpteenth album with a perfect introduction, "And Now For Something ... Full DescriptionCompletely Similar," a play on the old Monty Python line; NoFx's greatest asset lies in its ability to stick to its guns and avoid the pressure to mature, or even mutate.

On PUMP UP THE VALUUM, Fat Mike and the gang are still writing brilliantly bratty two-minute punk rants about authority figures, the system, and anything else that comes to mind. This is basic punk, and NoFx is refreshing and fun in its familiarity. The playful lyrics perfectly traverse that dental floss-thin tightrope between painfully silly and overbearingly clever. The seemingly spontaneous call and response of the joyfully pointless "Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't)"--"no clam eyes to cry clam tears"--is perfect pop-punk anarchy. NoFx won't and shouldn't ever grow up; it'd be a shame if the band ever stopped singing about women and drugs and inertia and sexual frustration, and its ilk, in its own singularly wide-eyed way.

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Tracklisting:

1. It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite 2. Kids of the K-Hole 3. Murder the Government 4. Monosyllabic Girl 5. 180 Degrees 6. All His Suits Are Torn 7. All Outta Angst 8. I'm Telling Tim

9. Champs Elysées 10. Dad's Bad News 11. Kill Rock Stars 12. Eat the Meek 13. Desperation's Gone 14. Flossing a Dead Horse 15. Quart in Session 16. Falling in Love

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes is the seventh album by the punk rock band NOFX, released on November 11, 1997.
Overview

The band often finds themselves bombarded by footwear while performing live, as it is common practice of punk rock fans to throw shoes lost by crowd surfers on stage. From this, and the title of the fourth book of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, comes the record's title.

The album was recorded at San Francisco's Motor Studios in August 1997 and was produced by Fat Mike and regular Fat Wreck Chords producer Ryan Greene. The liner notes for the album claim it is 'arguably their third best album' (up to that point). Also therein the standard practice of including a photograph of each band member has been mocked, with members of other punk bands standing in for the four NOFX members:
Fat Mike is replaced by Serge Verkhovsky, bassist in Limp,
El Hefe is replaced by Otis Bartholomeu, vocalist and guitarist in Fluf,
Eric Melvin (listed as just "Melvin") is replaced by 'Little John', roadie for Swingin' Utters,
Erik Sandin (listed as "Smelly") is replaced by Chuck Platt, bassist in Good Riddance.

Track 9, "Champs Elysées", is a cover version of the track "Les Champs-Elysées" by Joe Dassin. [2]

The final track, "Falling in Love", is reportedly a love song about a friend of Fat Mike and his friend's wife together in a plane in rapid decent, destined to crash. The track has a 'hidden ending' that starts at timecode 4:15. It is a recording of a segment from Howard Stern's radio show in which the host's DJ begins to play the track "Drugs are Good", from the band's HOFX EP. He clearly dislikes the track and stops it after 36 seconds, effectively labelling it as disco before going on to rename the band 'No Talent'. The first pressing of the cd contains an extended bonus track: 8 min instrumental immediately after this radio show segment, that ends with a 10 seconds acoustic song "Congratulations, you made it through the song, I bet you never thought anyone could play something so wrong".

On the CD it bears the Warning "Unlawful Duplication May be Hazardous to your Health!". This warning might be a parody of Bad Religion albums because some Bad Religion albums (e.g Suffer, No Control, etc.) carry this warning.

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Tracklist
01. hobophobic (scared of bums)
02. philthy phil philanthropist
03. freedom lika shopping cart
04. bleeding heart disease
05. hot dog in a hallway
06. release the hostages
07. liza
08. what's the matter with kids today?
09. love story
10. the black and white
11. whatever didi wants
12. august 8th
13. drop the world

Not for the faint of heart, the ninth release from the punk-ska band NOFX features lead vocalist and bassist Fat Mike snarling his way through one irreverent track after another, refusing to take anything, including himself, completely seriously. Despite the group's LA hardcore roots, HEAVY PETTING ZOO is listener-friendly. NOFX are a group of competent musicians not afraid to add harmonizing vocals and the occasional catchy melody to their thrashing, high-speed guitar and drum work. No matter how sneeringly angry the band's approach to a topic, there is always an element of tongue-in-cheek humor next to the thought-provoking messages of the lyrics. Discussing the corrupting influence of money on "Bleeding Heart Disease," Fat Mike sounds furious, singing "how money polluted [his] mind"; yet the song continues as a parody of the sweet Broadway tune, "Doe A Deer," including the lines, "Fo-dder for corporations/Sew-ing our lips together/La -- such a nice place to get shot."

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Tracklist
01. linoleum
02. you're bleeding
03. moron brothers
04. punk guy
05. bob
06. life o'reilly
07. you drink, you drive, you spill
08. nothing but a nightmare (sorta)
09. east bay
10. soul doubt
11. kill all the white man
12. beer bong
13. six pack girls
14. together on the sand
15. nowhere
16. the brews
17. buggley eyes

So, we book three nights at the Roxy in Hollywood for a live album. The first night we get totally wasted. It was hella fun. We listen to the tape the next day. It sucks hard. Total disaster. The next night we get a little drunk and it turned out the best. We used some of the jokes from each night, but the music was pretty much all from the second night. Alright, this is getting totally boring. This came out on fat. That's all. -NOFX-

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Though NOFX have stuck closely to their powerhouse hard-and-fast pop-punk sensibility since their inception in 1983, their focus, chemistry, and songwriting skills improved steadily over the years, and '94's PUNK IN DRUBLIC is arguably their ... Full Descriptionfinest moment. If not for their in-your-face punk aesthetic, NOFX would qualify as a fine power-pop band. A knack for harmonies and deft, melodic hooks (which are seemingly tossed out left and right throughout the album) are no small part of the band's success, as the anthemic chorus of "The Cause" and the ringing refrain and "da-na-na-na" bridge of "Leave It Alone" prove.

But NOFX rocks like nobody's business to boot. Near-speed-metal drumming, walls of crunching guitars, and fierce, power-chord-driven structures keep things churning and frothing throughout. The band's usual zany humor is in full force here, as on their ode to linoleum ("Linoleum"); but their goofy satire also reaches into thought-provoking territory with songs about race issues--"Don't Call Me White" and "The Brews," a tune about an orthodox Jewish gang. Witty, catchy, and full of gutsy punch, PUNK IN DRUBLIC eventually went gold, and solidified NOFX's place in the front ranks of the pop-punk movement.

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Tracklist
01. live your life
02. my friends
03. six pack girls
04. bang gang
05. hit it
06. hold it back
07. id
08. cops and donuts
09. iron man
10. shitting bricks
11. mom rules
12. on my mind
13. white bread
14. lager in the dark
15. too mixed up
16. drain bramaged
17. bob turkee
18. no problems
19. memories
20. beast within
21. instrumental
22. ant attack

Maximum Rocknroll is an album by NOFX that compiles early singles and demo songs. It was released in 1992 by Mystic Records without the band's consent. Maximum Rocknroll was released as an LP, CD, and cassette. The cassette album was given a different title, E is for Everything, though the track listing was identical to the other formats. E is for Everything is currently out of print.

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Tracklist
01. green corn
02. the moron brothers
03. shower days
04. food, sex and ewe
05. just the flu
06. el lay
07. new boobs
08. cheese
09. where's my slice?
10. together on the sand
11. brain constipation
12. gonoherpasyphlaids
13. i don't want you around
14. the malachi crunch


Review
Before NOFX became the fathers of humorous but hard-edged punk rock, they were just four pretty obnoxious Californians with a penchant for fast music and dirty jokes. Ribbed isn't exactly the group's breakthrough into content filled rock, but their typically hard-edged punk has enough dirty humor that anyone with their mind in the gutter should at least get few smirks over the course of the record. Besides the sophomoric gross out of "The Moron Brothers" and the double-entendre ridden "Together on the Sand," none of these songs have even made it into the later live shows of the band, and the reason is pretty obvious. Among tracks about not showering and fake boobs, the group runs through their typical gamut of punk styles, but there is nothing as immediately catchy or edgy as their later work and more often than not the songs are far from memorable high speed rants about nothing. NOFX completeists may feel a need to place this record in their collections, but the odds are, in light of the band's much more impressive later work, that it will rarely merit listening and, when it does, will probably be more for reminiscing than for actual enjoyment. NOFX are a great punk rock band, but Ribbed is a rocky start that falls way to short way too often. - Peter J. D'Angelo, All Music Guide.

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