Nofx, I'm thinking of admiting about them, and not keeping them a guilt pleasure.

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They're one of those bands that I would never bring up (except in a fairly anonymous venue like this) in conversation, but you know what, I have most of their albums and go see them as much as possible. Does this make me lame (or more lame than I admit to be) because of their vast appeal to 16 year old skateboarders?

Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked them a lot when I was a 16 year old skateboarder.

polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 30 November 2002 07:44 (twenty-three years ago)

well, duh.

Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 30 November 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

i would have to say that the decline is pretty freakin good, some other random tracks are catchy and such.

todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not a 16 year old skater and I love some of their stuff (everything I've heard actually).

Come on, get out of that closet.

meirion john lewis (mei), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it makes you pretty lame, but then I kinda like some Pennywise songs.

Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

NoFX >>>>>>>>>>>>> Pennywise

& other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

Time has prove this.

Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

proven*. Hot damn.

Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

if I like Punk in Drublic, what else would I like by these guys

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 02:15 (fourteen years ago)

Why fuck with a good thing?

kkvgz, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 12:53 (fourteen years ago)

this is a kind of music we just pretty much ignore on ILM, and yet I know so many people who grew up with and still enjoy NOFX - same goes with any number of US punk-ish bands.

Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

I always thought they were "icky" - FTR

Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:49 (fourteen years ago)

If you really like that one (which, imho, is the best of their discography) you might like the trio of albums that came directly before it - S&M Airlines, Ribbed, and White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean. After that the band pretty much coasts. The War on Errorism was a latter half career highlight in terms of songs, but the second-grade level political songs can grate.

Their single-song 18-minute EP The Decline is worth hearing once, its just a shame that once they got all of that ambition out of their system they went directly back to being a frustratingly average punk band.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 13:50 (fourteen years ago)

I tour occasionally and crash at the pads of indie dudes, psych folkers, beach beardos, techno snobs and metalheads on a regular basis, and, almost invariably, amid piles of cool records, there is an Epitaph stash. Sometimes it's hidden, in the low rungs of the CD tower, sometimes they're mixed right in with the No Age and the Neokarma, but, for dudes between the ages of 25 and 25, there is almost ALWAYS a NOFX pile.

I like 'em fine. Definitely not 'indefensible' or anything like that. "Liza and Louise" is a great punk tune, and jon is otm about the ones right before Punk In Drublic.

From what I remember, their reality show is also fairly uproarious.

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

Errr, that's 'between the ages of 25 and 35.'

If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:08 (fourteen years ago)

Punk in drublic and heavy petting zoo were my favourites as a lad.

you've got male (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

I hate neo-punk, and I find NOFX and their brethren beyond tolerable. They have hooks and they don't seem like a bunch of crabby navel-gazers.

Indie Pop: Intelligent People's Music (Mount Cleaners), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:33 (fourteen years ago)

http://youtu.be/FabrNBI-Vo0

errant flynn, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

I still listen to them. I'm in my 30s and the last time I tried to skateboard I broke my collarbone.

Jeff, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:55 (twelve years ago)


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