Friday Evening NOFX
(Rudy Rucker is a guestblogger. His latest novel, Hylozoic, describes a postsingular world in which everything is alive.)
Guestblog brings you a special Friday evening music treat!
A playlist of NOFX videos! Yaaaar.
Best album of late? Easy. It's NOFX and Rancid, BYO Split Series Vol III. My two favorite punk bands playing each other's songs!
the latest
latest episodes
The Brews is still their best song ever.
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I've always been partial to Lori Meyers or Scavenger Type.
Although their newer tunes are still kickass...
Ahhhh NOFX, memories of being a drunken punk teenager!
Green Corn is still my personal favorite...
WMBR run by students at MIT might like them, to play and interview, etc. The station has an Internet radio feed.
One of the first punk 7"s I bought was NOFX's debut EP. I'm thinking '85-'86.
Groovealicious. N0FX
Thanx Rudy! FYI, they have a new release out! :)
Punx are a Hot Topic for a blog post.
-- MrJM
I kid, I love Fat Mike and co.
Or you could listen to actual punk.
@Humanpower, only took 11 posts for a "my music is better than yurz". Nicely done.
That said, the whole "actual punk" thing is comparably amusing to listening to the regressives try to prove who is the "actual conservative" while fellating the ghost of Reagan.
@SHANE, hahaha
stoked to find this playlist on boingboing, and not just a NOFX playlist, a sick one!
rock and roll
@12
yeah but in this case his music probably is better. nofx is pretty dull stuff
I've always loved NOFX, thanks for the post!
@Humanpower:
The "actual punk" you're talking about is dead, it has all been done, and in todays context is pretty pointless, in other words stop living in the past.
Awesome! This post caused me to buy the new album from iTunes.
And that is why it's called COASTER oddharmonix
And the Brooklyn Bridge wants to sell you a mathematician.
The album isn't new, It's been out for 6 years now.
Druggggs are good and when you do them people think that you're cool.
..Country Music plays on the Radio so i turned it off...
NOFX still rocking me
Ah, the old "real" vs. "fake" punk debate. Admittedly, I'm not a fan of pep rally punk like NOFX and Rancid, but I appreciate that people take an interest in music. I'll bet that some NOFX fans would be hyper-critical of a Celine Dion post.
Still, I prefer all the pop-punk that inspired these guys. I've seen NOFX live, way back when, and thought they were boring. It's not any kind of referendum on their musical abilities; just a matter of taste. But I can tell you that it's very similar musically to what a lot of friends of mine were making at the time, and that most of them were in pop-punk bands in the hopes of becoming famous and screwing teenage girls. At least a few of them succeeded.
As for "real" vs. "fake," I think it's a fair argument. Punk is a word of such stylistic convenience that many young people will just assume that nothing aside from Rancid is punk. Since punk's halcyon days, many would-be punks have gravitated to noise, grindcore, post-rock, doom metal, emo. So, while many other styles of music are derived of and inspired by "punk," we now use the word exclusively to define the music of Green Day and NOFX.
If a band is too aggressive, they're called something else, or they're never talked about. And if they sound like a radio-friendly late-career Descendants knockoff, they're "punk." I have known too many bluegrass and jazz musicians who played in "punk" bands throughout the '90s to take the designations seriously anymore.
Just saw Joey Cape from Lagwagon on his acoustic tour and he ends the show with linoleum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRrpKTIlG8
So Long ... was the first punk album I ever heard (not counting Green Day or the offspring which I first heard as a wee boy). NOFX were one of favorite bands when I was young and angsty and just needed something fast to skateboard to but having reached my mid-twenties the only 'punk' music I listen to these days is Propagandhi because a) they just keep getting shre-tter and b) they are a band of convictions which I respect and for the most part agree with. This is the first live footage of Nofx though and am a little surprised that I find them so boring now. Shame really because they did write some pretty memorable new-skool punk music.
As for the 'real v fake' punk music debate, i'd say that real punk is nearly dead if not already dead. it is probably happening in some basements across the world but nothing substantial.
awwww!!! that is totally one of my fave albums of all time too :D sounds sooo wrong at first then after a few listens you realize its the best thing EVER ! :)
punk was always a spirit rather than a musical style. noise is the modern incarnation of that spirit although it predates punk by about a half century