Nofx

The name of the group comes from the Boston hardcore band Negative FX ^[2] .

Initially, the group consisted of vocalist and bass player Fat Mike (real name is Mike Burkett), drummer Eric Sandin and guitarist Eric Melvin . Since 1991, El Hefe became the second guitarist and trumpeter .

The texts of the group, often sarcastic , are devoted to politics , society , various subcultures , racism , the recording industry and religion .

NOFX has sold over 6 million records worldwide and is one of the most successful independent groups in history ^[3] . The group distributes all of its recordings on its own, not wanting to collaborate with large studios, well-known labels, commercial radio stations.

The desire to put together his own gang arose from Eric Melvin back in 1983. By that time, he had already worked on the guitar in one group, but something was not going well with them. Having met a drummer named Dillon, also disappointed in his team, Eric decided to join forces to create a new project. The drummer brought his acquaintance Mike Burkett, nicknamed "Fat Mike," to play the bassist, and a guy named Steve claimed to be at the microphone. However, this type managed to skip the first few rehearsals, and after that Dillon also disappeared. The seat of the drummer was taken by Mike's friend Eric Sandin, and Melvin and Burkett tried to sing. However, the first of them could not simultaneously play the guitar and yell into the microphone, and therefore the vocal duties were transferred to fat Mike. The trio, called "NoFX", began performing in small clubs in the vicinity of Los Angeles, and soon recorded the first demo. They distributed it in a peculiar way by posting an announcement that whoever sends his tape will receive it back with a record.

After some time, feedback began to come with a request to perform there and there, and in 1985 the group went on their first tour. At the end of the tour, Eric Sandin left for his hometown of Santa Barbara, and Scott Sellers took the place for the drums. With him, the group made another tour and released a couple of seven-inches, “No FX” and “So What If We're on Mystic?”, And then the drummer's vacancy was again free.

Scott Eldal took this post for a couple of weeks, after which Sandin returned to his home team. In the meantime, the group continued to look for a “clean” vocalist, and finally managed to realize their dreams with the help of Dave Allen. However, this guy was not lucky, and a few months later he died in a car accident. I had to sing again to fat Mike, but on the other hand, NoFX was replenished with second guitarist Dave Casillas. Casillas participated in a couple of tours in the States, as well as in the first European tour. When he was in the band, the Liberal Animation and PMRC records were recorded. However, Casillas liked to stick to the bottle more than playing the guitar, which caused him to resign. In 1989, Dave Casillas was replaced by Steve Kidwiller, who made his debut on S&M Airlines , but he did not stay long at NoFX. Two years later, the punk life of Steve was fed up with the order, and the guitarist announced his departure.

This time, the fourth member of the collective Aaron Abeyta, nicknamed El Hefe, who, in addition to the six-string, also played the trumpet. In the early 1990s, when people listened to the mainstream such as Bad Religion and Offspring , NoFX released the anti-commercial disc White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean. Only one song - “Please Play This Song on the Radio” - had a melodic motive, and even that ended in a flood of curses.

The next album, Punk in Drublic , became the most successful in the discography of the group and won gold. In 1996, NoFX paid tribute to fashion by releasing a heavily graded Heavy Petting Zoo record, but the very next year they returned to their punk roots with So Long & Thanks for All the Shoes . Punk rock was also featured on Pump Up the Valuum and Bottles to the Ground , after which the band allowed themselves to experiment with the release of EP The Decline , which consisted of one 18-minute track. Pump Up the Valuum was NoFX 's latest album to be released on Epitaph Records, and later California punks were released on Mike's Fat Wreck Chords label. Having thoroughly rummaged in old films, in 2002 the team released a collection of 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough To Go On Our Other Records , which included only one new song.

In the same year, together with Rancid, the group recorded the split “BYO Split Series Vol. III ”, and a new studio work, The War On Errorism , was released only in 2003. The album had a pronounced political character, and in the sequel, fat Mike organized the Rock Against Bush campaign. The next full-length film was released in 2006, and a year later the second official NoFX artist appeared - They've Actually Gotten Worse Live .

NOFX does not appear on MTV (except for the Brazilian and another Canadian music channel), because MTV launched their video clip without the knowledge of the group itself.

Studio Albums

Live Albums

Mini Albums (EP)

Singles

• 1992 - Liza and Louise
• 1994 - Don't Call Me White
• 1995 - Leave It Alone
• 1995 - HOFX
• 1996 - All of Me
• 1999 - Timmy the Turtle
• 1999 - Louise and Liza
• 2000 - Pods and Gods
• 2000 - Bottles to the Ground
• 2003 - 13 Stitches
• 2012 - My Stepdad's A Cop And My Stepmom's A Domme
• 2012 - Ronnie & Mags
• 2013 - Xmas Has Been X'ed
• 2016 - Sid & Nancy
• 2016 - Oxy Moronic

Splits

• 1988 - Drowning Roses / NOFX
• 2002 - BYO Split Series, Vol. 3
• 2010 - NoFX / The Spits - Split

Collections

• 1992 - Maximum RocknRoll
• 2002 - 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records
• 2004 - The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)
• 2010 - The Longest EP
• 2013 - 30th Anniversary Box Set
• 2014 - Backstage Passport Soundtrack

DVD

• 1994 - Ten Years of Fuckin 'Up
• 2009 - Backstage Passport
• 2012 - The Decline Live
• 2015 - Backstage Passport 2

Clips

• 1988 - Shut Up Already
• 1988 - "Mr. Jones »
• 1989 - S&M Airlines
• 1992 - Stickin 'In My Eye
• 1993 - "Bob"
• 1994 - "Leave It Alone"
• 1996 - “I Wanna be an Alcoholic”
• 2003 - Franco Un-American
• 2006 - Seeing Double At The Triple Rock
• 2009 - Cokie the Clown
• 2010 - “Everything in Moderation (Especially Moderation)”
• 2012 - Xmas Has Been X'ed
• 2016 - Oxy Moronic

• Official NOFX Website
• nofx lyrics
• detailed history of NOFX