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| NOFXSo Long and Thanks for All the1997 Epitaph 
 Review by: Harvey See others by this writer Only registered users can post comments 
 
Published on October 24th 2001
Ahh, yes...the glory that is NOFX--the motley bunch. The ever imitated group of jimmies going over the hill, but still managing to pump out punk-rock splendor. Love em' or hate em', you gotta admit they are indeed the paradigm and founders of fat-style punk rock; this album displaying the former to the utmost. Actually describing the album is completely futile, cause yours truly assumes that if you're on this site, you probably got and idea who these fellas are and what they sound like. If I'm wrong and your a newbie to music, I'll shoot the shit to give ya a taste of this classic slab of wax. It's an amalgam of distorted guitars, whiney vocals, French lyricism, dope-smokin' reggae jams, alcohol-induced sing-alongs, a trumpeering Mexican, an homage to bing band jazz ala Herb Albert, insanity-laden drumming, Islam and Celibacy, patricide, Ketamine trips, and punk rock declaration. In short: a great way to pop your punk rock cherry, or just reminisce on the punk days of old. This is the paradigm NOFX album, in your reviewer's humble opinion, and is well deserving of the immortal score of 5. Indeed a classic.
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To whoever said that NOFX don't like this album, that is a complete lie. This is Fat Mike's personal favourite. I never thought so many people liked this album, its been my fave for years, but i dont know any Nofx fans to talk too, i always thought Punk in Drublic was a fave after seeing them, but this LP best one so far best nofx album ever best nofx cd^_^ This is defenetly the best nofx album. If people like nofx they have to like this one. I yust think they are fuc**** great!! This is their best album ever!!!! Stop say our opinion, the important it's to listen their Cd. lots of ska not their best but not worst lots of ska not their best but not worst This album is GREAT!! all Dutch People Like it!! (I think) Nofx are god and all of their album are good!!! I believe that even NOFX don't like this album - not great but you can't be great every time in the studio...so long This is a fuckin awesome CD. one of their best. all the songs are great especially the desperations gone, great song. I found it one of the best albums of nofx. They rock to hard !! by krikke182 This is an alright album, but not "classic". There are some good songs on this CD, but too many bad ones. I also hate the sound of this CD. It sounds so fucking generic and processed, which in turn makes it sound poppier. I dunno, you might like it, might not. This album is just a NOFX album , there are no classic songs , excepted for Champs Elysees ( sorry , i'm French , so this song is just pretty cool for me to listen to ) . No classic songs , but all are of a really good quality , from Punk Rock Elite ( fuckin'good lyrics ) to the end , each song tells a story or makes you think , and I think that's what any good punk album should do . So , this is not the best NOFX album , far from it , but it's still NOFX , so it's better than hundreds of other punk records . Pretty cool album. Fun to listen to when skating or snowboarding. my first NOFX full length album. and what great lryics and sound. very good album i dont know why people think that this is a bd album cos it's short. and cos its got ska. maybe nofx wanted to try out different stuff. punk (distorted guitas, whiny lyrics, all that) gets boring n ska is the best way to go. mix the two and you have some good shit Great music except for a couple songs, anyway this album is worth bying for the song "the desperation s gone" alone. 1st NOFX cd I listened to, I love it. Never had ska fitted punk rock so well. This was my first NOFX cd and one of my first punk cd's. I sat there after listening to it, not knowing what to think. It was good but shorter than I expected and it seemed to have these wierd filler songs. Well, I eventually fell in love with this and all their other stuff and through Nofx I was introduced to this wonderful style of music that is Punk Rock. This was my second NOFX album. For some reason most people dislike it. Whether the ska is too much for them or it seemed uninspired to them, i don't know, but i still love it from day one. It's right there with Punk In Drublic for me. Extremely powerful tunes, and often powerful lyrics give this a 9. This album rules.... Reminds me of how cool ska is combined with punk which is what nofx mainly did with this album.... And it has an operation ivy sound on some tracks....... In my opinion this is the second best nofx cd... First punk in drublic. great record, it even gets emotional without getting emo... to me that's a good thing....un comparable to white trash... that's why i'm givin' it a nine... just to clear up this comment: I!C!O!U!L!D!N!"!T! A!G!R!E!E! M!O!R!E!!! H!E!Y!!! W!H!A!T!'!S! W!R!O!N!G! W!I!T!H! M!Y! C!O!M!P!U!T!E!R!?!?! Shit!! that took a long time i hate when people use exclamation marks where they're not supposed to be. it makes them look so gay. oh, and this a great album This is far from this bands best. i wouldn't call nofx rockstars. NOFX have become rock stars now. Real lazy rock stars. They do make good music, this isn't their best, but they've made some great albums in the past. Second best NOFX cd ever to the decline. Heavy Petting zoo rock's and is fuckin great too. I don't want to hear about how this album isn't punk. It may be over produced, but it is still fast, rock'n music. i love NOFX, therefore i love this album as much as any other NOFX album, enough said :) woops i gave it a 6 OK so some people suck at life, like lots of the people that commented here... NOFX isnt punk, ok dude whatever you say. NOFX is punk to the fullest, maybe now always in their music but definitley in attitude. This album isnt their best work, White Trash, 2 Heebs, and a bean is my favorite tied with Punk in Drublic. And NOFX has had their songs played on the radio by the way, whoever said they didnt. Bottles to the Ground and Dinosaurs must die most recently. I agree with the dude 2 posts down...NOFX is not the most-punk oriented band in the world, nor is this album. But then again, not many bands are anymore. I don't care It's all good music, Punk or not. I actually like Heavy Petting Zoo the most too, (to the guy at the bottom). I think that album is their best. All bands need to evolve. I wouldn't say this abum is punk as fuck. I don't think its even that good, I wouldn't say NOFX is the punkest band in the world either contrary to some peoples thughts. But the whole Old-school vs. new school thing has been said a million times already. To the guy below me: Punk isn't always going to stay how you want it to. Punk, like many other types of music has to evolve with time. It can't always be old-school you know. This is not punk as it's supposed to be! This is some smooth over-produced shit that reminds me more of blink 182 and the new JEW-album than real punk. What happened to the rawness punk is supposed to contain. Fuck new-school, old-school rocks!! just because you like something doesn't mean you have to give it a ten. does anyone review something they don't think is perfect? What can I say? NOFX is great. But yet... they seem only like a band for getting IN to punk. After you've gone and listened around, it gets a little harder to pop a NOFX record into the stereo. I really do like the music, but it just seems like I have to force myself to listen to it sometimes. Also, I would agree with Coldjuly that White Trash, 2 Heebs, 1 Bean (originally 2 Kikes and a Spic) is their best. Once again people are using words like "classic" or "masterpiece" to desribe boring shit albums like this one from arguably the most overated band in music(and this sure as shit is not punk this cd rocks this was the worst review ever best nofx album hands down Not a bad album. Not my favorite from NOFX, but it's still high quality. heh. its all about doing it for the fuck of it... .... doing not thinking.. sensation, not reflection When i first bought this album, it was the first NOFX album i had ever heard. That was a few years ago. Since then, I've purchased Punk in Drublic, and I enjoy them more and more each time I listen to them. This album is a great, raw, punk-rock album laced with stupid, yet funny humor, but the music still holds true to punk sound and punk attitude, unlike Blink, which is just a stupid pop band with distorted guitars. I think this is a great album, and I think the guy a few comments below me, who says they're not a punk band is wrong. 10 points for NOFX. Good album..."White trash, Two heebs and a bean" rules..their best one. Great record. And yes, I do consider this to be a "punk" album. This and the decline are two of the best albums they done!! in my opinion altough all there albums are good yes (even there older stuff) they never seem to fail. They may not be Gods of punk or anything, but they are one of better and long lasting ones around... but so long thats for the shoes a very nice diverse cd and its always been around my cd player! Good album, I actaully grew tired of it after a while, I wouldn't say it's their best, but it's good indeed. i love this cd. it was one of the first i bought. before that i just listened to his. This cd is really good. but for all of you who hate ska, it does have some ska. I love ska so i like the ska songs. this cd makes me happy. so does boy sets fire. One of my favorite NOFX album. Fat Mike's are fucking when he's serious. Also, the guitar the guitar playing is awesome. The best songs are Kids of the K-Hole, 180 degrees and All outta angst. considering that they're a novelty comedy, band they still make a lot of shitty music.. i'd like them a lot better without all the stupid immature blink 182 style jokes. obviously they were doing stupid immature jokes long before blink 182, but the jokes are just as bad or worse. i like nofx more serious songs, or at least the ones that are't incredibly stupid (my vagina, to name one).. they have a good sound, but truthfully, at least half of their songs can't be called punk rock. and pretty much every band on fat wreckc chords sucks anyway. most of them aren't even punk, but since most people on this site have lost site of what punk really is, i guess thats just the way it goes... It's a great album indeed, but I actually enjoy Heavy Petting Zoo the most. I think I'm the only one on earth that does so, but eh, ya know. |
