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After much deliberation I think I preferred the EP 'Never Trust A Hippie' they released before the album... ouch

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NOFX live videos there ^^

[QUOTE=DBoon's Ghost]Just to reiterate on my earlier point, in regards to their success as a band as well as Fat Mike's success with Fat Wreck, it skewers perception.

Example being. Punk and it's morals stem from struggle both socially and economically. Fat Mike would like you to believe otherwise.

So, in effect, the fact that he got rich off punk, coupled with NOFX's meager beginnings as a slapstick band in the vein of Dead Milkmen, it annoys me when he tries to relate to the plights we as common folk endure, and it's worse that he pushes his own agenda on the youth that look so much up to them.

It's a dangerous combination. I would be more comfy with them as a band if they just shut up and play.[/QUOTE]
nofx didn't start off as a slapstick band. they've had political songs as well as joke songs from the very beginning.

I agree that their songs seem far too preachy now, and they did it earlier too (namely liberal animation). But they've always been politically vocal.
They shouldn't have to change that just because a large part of his fan base is now younger teens.

I can't think of any songs in which he is trying to relate to the plights of the common folk.

My very favorite part in the decline is near the end, before the trumpets come in, when it's the guitar riff with the same drum beat over and over, and then the cymbals are played and there's the crowd noise.

I was just lookin' at some old pictures. Fat Mike used to be a skinny muthafu[size=2]c[/size]ka.

[QUOTE=Drop The Baby]yeah it's true[/QUOTE]
But he was "fat" for a little while and during this time he gained the prefix "Fat", which has stuck ever since, despite him not being obese or particularly overweight for a long time.

He got the nickname 'Fat' during the NOFX tour he went on after attending college. He said that while he was still not particularly fat, the fact that he had still put a lot of weight on meant that people began calling him by this nickname.