. Recently he found another record label, Honest Don's, I think it's at .
-Eric Melvin of NOFX used to own coffee shop Melvin's (Melvin's, 8205 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, 213-653-6118).
-El Hefe of NOFX owns a night club called Hefe's.
-August 8th was the day hippie Jerry Garcia died and Woodstock was on.
-Jarry Garcia didn't die on August 8th, it is just that Fat Mike thought he did.
-Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) was an anti-communist and Catharine McKinnon and Andrea Dworking were some big feminists (as in The Black And White).
-Fat Mike other than NOFX plays with Me First and the Gimme Gimmes with Spike (Fat's shipping guy), Jake Jackson (No Use For A Name), Joey Cape (Lagwagon), and Dave (RKL).
-Eric Melvin other than NOFX plays with his punk rock karaoke band.
-Malachi Brothers are bad guys from Happy Days show. Each of them crunched the opposite side of Fonz and Pinkie Tuskadaro's car so they would not participate in a derby.
-NOFX stands for NO Fucking straightXedge.
-I don't know about the others but El Hefe and Mike are married (El Hefe has a kid also).
-El Hefe does all the strange vocals like in Kill All The White Man, Johhny Appleseed and Straight Edge.
-Fat Mike has his nickname since college days when he could eat for free so he kept gaining weight.
-Liza & Louise don't exist. It's just that Fat Mike likes lesbians. Still, Lori Meyers does exist.
-Fat Mike likes golf and plays it all the time.
-Song Please Play This Song On The Radio is soundtrack in the movie The Chase.
-Jeff from Jeff Wears Birkenstocks is a hippie who works at Epitaph.
-Cathay De (from The Desperation's Gone) is a punk bar where Mike used to hang when he was young.
-Vincent was originally written by Don McLean.
-Scavenger Type is soundtrack of movie Nirvana.
-Olive Me is a Frank Sinatra song.
-Electricity is originally written by the band OMD.
-In the PC game Xgames Proboarder is the NOFX song All His Suits Are Torn.
Liberal Animation: Animal Liberation
Freedumb: freedom
Piece: Peace (fight for peace, but where's the war)
Mike Rakhabit (his name on SM airlines): My crack habit
Day to daze: day to days
Five feet under: As opposed to 6 feet under; the guy in the song is almost dead.
Professional Crastination: Like Pro. (abbreviation) Crastination or procrastination
You drink, you drive, you spill: Spill, as opposed to kill.
Scream for change: Change in the money sense, not the social change
El Lay: LA......the town.
Gonoherpasyphlaids: Gonnoreah, herpes, syphilis, and aids all in one.
Seymour Butts (drummer on longest line): See more butts.
Soul Doubt: sold out
the Brews: as in hebrews, right?
Hobophobic: as opposed to hoMophobic
Bleeding Heart Disease: combo of bleeding heart liberal and heart disease. The whole song itself, is, of course,a take off on "do ray mi fa so la..."
Drain Bramaged: Brain Damaged
Erik Ghint: Arrogant
Erik Shun: Erection
Izzy Drew Lynn: Is he Drooling
Herb Reathstinks: Her breath stinks
Punk in Drublic: Drunk in Public
P.M.R.C.: The Parental Music Resource Center
Here comes the Neighborhood: A slight take off on "there goes the..."
Mr Jones: The songs about Heroin, the line that goes "without you whats the 'point'" is referring also to the point on a needle
You put your Chocolate in my peanut butter: "there's no justice theres just us" is like justice=just us, a simple play on words.
Professional Crastination: "we're living in a procrastination" That means procrasti-nation; nation as in a country. Living in the land of Procrasti, ya know.
Together on the sand: "I had my fingers up her... country music played on the radio" This is obviously supposed to sound like "I had my fingers up her CUNT... ry music played on the radio"
Whatever Didi Wants: "I wouldn't walk 500 miles when I could fly coach" is a take off on that lame old Proclaimers song.
Bang Gang: take off on "gang bang", as in what homeys do.
In the song my name is Bud. The line my sister's name is Mary Jane and mines Bud. These are allusions to marijuana.
Champs Elysees is a street in Paris with all the expensive stores, pubs and shit.
Quart In Session is a take-off of "court in session" (like the American court system).
Greediocracy is a combination of greed and democracy.
Stranger than fishin is a rip off of Bad Religion's Stranger than fiction.
Dying Degree is Die And Agree.
The song Punk Guy can be broken down as follows---
"crazier then GG" is talking about GG Allin, who was pretty fucking crazy.
"more PC then Ian" is about Ian MacKaye, the guy who's credited with starting the sXe movement
"got colored teeth like Johnny" is Johnny Rotton
"exudes a Vicious disposition" is reffering to Sid Vicious from Sex Pistols
"his hair sticks out like Colins did" one of the singers from Dag nasty
"he jumps similar to Springa" Springa was the guy from SSD. He jumped.
"got a face like Charles Bronson" not sure about this one, though I think they might be talking about Charles Bronson. Charles Bronson is this actor guy, with a narrow 4head, a mustache, and "bullet proof" hair. he was in a ton of movies. He has an unforgetable face, and voice.
Bren sez: The title of the song "My Name is Bud" is a takeoff of the song by PRIMUS "My name is mud" which is about drugs too !! Plus everybody knows the references.."my sisters name is Mary Jane and mine's BUD!! Mines bud!!
Jonathan talking about Drug Free America In the song "drug free america" there is a line that goes "say nope to dope and ugh to drugs"..this is a take off on a commericial that was around in the early 80s with that fucker crime dog mcgruff..i think thats who did the commericial...anywho that was there slogan ("say nope to dope and ugh to drugs") and that what nofx was making fun of..
Eric talking more about the Brews A "shicksa" is kind of a nasty word meaning along the lines of a stupid girl who is good for only a one night stand, usually reffered to Irish and Polish girls. Oh yeah and Jews are allowed to leave their house on the sabbath, they just can't work. (Lucky Us!) Of course I doubt if any Jews still follow that rule.
Marcus thinking about placebos A placebo is like a pill you take to compare to another pill (like a sugar pill to a valuum or somthin). So hes a saying you take two placebos and call him lame, yet you are still looking at me the same way as you did before, but you think your sight towards him has changed. So all together hes saying you see what you wanna see.
Brian explaining Dying Degree It's basically from the perspective of someone who's getting older in life and reflecting on their achievements. When they are only able to find the "coupons cut, cigarettes smoked down to the butt" they become disillusioned and feel that their life has not been very meaningful. People can get caught up in everyday expenses ("no more eating crumbs") and don't have the chance to live a really fulfilling life. Basically, these people's lives come down to simply putting off death as long as they can ("the rightful owner of one deluxe cemetary plot") and worrying about things that don't matter once you're gone (the "paisley satin lined" is a reference to a fancy, decorated coffin, which Fat Mike feels is pretty worthless once you're dead). Basically, the song is saying don't waste your life by being overly concerned with unimportant things, and make sure you have meaningful experiences to look back on later in life.
Fat Tony thinks he found some puns too: In the Decline, when Mike talks about "one more pill to kill the pain" he's referring to the painkillers (a sort of anti-depressive pills)...which he uses, as says into an interview..... The song "We threw gasoline on the fire and now we have stumps for arms and no eyebrows" talks about NOFX themslves...they didn't wanted to be on MTV not to get burned as Green Day or Offspring "never though the furnace was gonna burn us"..... but since they became famous in someway they got burned the same "looks like we burned ourselves alive"..... In the part "remember the good old days, remember the sound" Mike paints an ideal picture of the old time, which represents how persons idealize their past... but Mike is realistic and destroys the ideal picture with that "remember the sweet Mustiness underground... I don't feel the need for reliving...some things are better off dead" .....GREAT!!!!!! Into the song Take Two Placebos and Call Me Lame Mike talks to the persons who judge him.....he tells them to try first how does it feel living as he does (Take two placebos; walk some in my shoes) only after you do this you can judge him (then you can call me lame; and tell me to fuck off)...."my humongous hat won't fit your gigantic head" means that everybody has his personal point of view, which often doesn't fit with the other's one......
Gui explaining Dueling Retards The first song of The P.M.R.C. Can Suck On This (that I have recently found in a store, lucky!!!), which is named Dueling Retards comes from the film A Quiet Week-End of Frightness or something like that where a mongol child plays his banjo quietly when some boys disturb him and he starts playing faster (this song's real name is Duel Banjo). but Fuzz said: The Duelling Retards pun isn't quite right. It's a take on Duelling Banjos from the film Deliverance. The kid is playing the banjo and one of the guys decides to join in. Then it just gets faster cos the kid is testing the old guy.
Bren sez: I heard from a punk friends of mine the the Cathay de grande was not only the spot where Fat Mike used to hang out but one day a goofy looking kid wearing short-shorts and a baseball cap sauntered (slowly walked) in and they started having a conversation about some bands they liked. This wannabee punk introduced himself as Eric Melvin. The two became fast friends and one day they decided to get a band together.....(you know what happens next !!)
Cornholio explaining The Malachi Crunch The Malachi Crunch is from Happy Days when the Fonz falls in love with Pinky Tuscadero who is a demolition derby driver and who arch nemisies are the Malachi brothers, whos signature is the Malachi crunch which they injure Pinky with. Then the Fonz beets both of them and asks Pinky to marry him and then realizes he can't marry her because he needs to be his own man.
Wargh explaining Kids From The K-Hole Well in the song Kids Of The K-Hole, what Fat Mike talks about is where you "are" when you take a drug named special K. People who go in raves take that kind of drug. The K-hole is the name of the buzz you have when you take that drug. That's why he says 18 hours holiday and somewhere between north eden and south utopia he makes alusion to being stoned by the special K drug. Also when he says Mrs. Kitty ketamine that's because ketamine is the main chemical product used to create the drug. and
Baylowpunk added: you probably already know that but the drug special k has the active ingredient ketamine (pronounced like cat a mean) because special k is a cat tranquilized primarily used on large cats like tigers and lions..... and
Mark said: Basicaly, I've had alot of inschool suspension/detention lately, and I read Aldus Huxley's Brave New World, and in that book, they refer to 'the perfect drug' (NIN pun), soma, people would take 'half a gramme' leisurely, but when they had time, or needed to escape reality, they would take "an 18-hour holiday" probably 2 grammes of soma. While they were on this holiday, they would have the euphoria dream, like while on coke. Soma was supposedly like cocaine, but scientificaly better. It was widely accepted to go out and have and ice cream sundae with half a gramme in it, and to take a half gramme tablet when you were feeling depressed. This book was written in the 1930's and did a fairly accurate prodiction of the future.
Zach talking about the visual pun in The Decline On the cover of The Decline there is a boy flying a plane. This boy appears to be the same boy who is playing with a toy plane in the movie Pink Floyd: The Wall. Ironically, the boy and his toy plane first appear nearly 18 minutes into the movie, which also is almost the exact running time of The Decline. Play The Decline to the first 18 minutes of The Wall and you'll see what happens! I asked NOFX about this on their official website in the Q&A section, but I don't expect them to answer it (you know how those guys are). I figured instead of using lyrical puns (as they do on most albums), this time they decided to do a visual pun (which apparently makes fun of the pink floyd/wizard of oz connection).
Jake found some more puns in The Decline Another interesting pun in The Decline is that when it starts talking about the unfair drug laws (Jerry spent some time in Michigan...), the time is at 4:20. 4:20 is supposed to be the time when you smoke weed, as well as being an internationally know pseudonym for marijuana.
Bleak explaining serotonin from The Decline I doubt all NOFX fans have advanced biology knowledge, so I think an explanation about the serotonin the band refers to is appropriate. Serotonin is an hormone that the body produces, and a friend of mine told me that recent studies shows that this hormone regulates suicide pulsions. I know this information isn't reliable, but I decided to write about it anyways, might always be useful. You can pretty much guess from the text(...one bullet, one empty head) that it's about suicide, but it's just nice to get a comfirmation.
IbeKento added: What that guy said about seratonin is kinda right, but heres a better explanation: Seratonin is a chemical produced by the brain. When there is a high level of Seratonin, the person feels euphoria. When there is a low level of Seratonin, the person goes through depression. Really bad depression, where they don't want to live anymore. That's why Fatty sings "The Seratonin's gone."
Simon found a couple of puns on So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes 180 Degrees means to shift your opinion to the opposite. On The Desperation's Gone there is a sentence that goes Cathay de I miss your smell, where Cathay de is a venue called Cathay de Grande, you can see an ad on the back of Fuck the kids. Flossing a dead horse is probably taken from a Sex pistols record called Flogging a dead horse.
Some explanations by Jon . The Colin reference in Punk Guy is actually a reference to Colin the singer of English band G.B.H - as you may know, G.B.H stands for Grievous Bodily Harm, but this band were nick-named Great Big Haircuts after Colin's large mohawk! I always thought that Kids Of The K-Hole was a reference to the Adolescents classic song "Kids Of The Black Hole", the Black Hole in question being a building or squat where punks went to hang out, keep away from parents, get drunk etc. The Desperations Gone. The Cathay De (actually the Cathay De Grande) was a venue in LA, played by all the great punk bands of the early 80's, and one of the places Fat Mike went as a young teenager to see punk rock. Here is also translation of the best NOFX song: The Brews... Manashevitz = cheap kosher wine jews stereotypically drink goyem = NonJews shagitz = Non jewish teenagers O.G. = original gansta????? mashuganas = Yiddish for "Crazy" Chutspah = untranslatable yiddish term meaning cross between balls and rudeness "sporting anti-swastika tattoos" - it's against the jewish law to tattoo yourself "as long as we're home by Saturday morning" - Saturday is the Sabbath Day or "Day Of Rest" in Jewish Law no Jew can even leave their home on Saturday. "we separate our milk plates from out meat" - a procedure which is mandated by Jewsish law Fairfax, LA = a part of Los Angeles where the orthodox Jews live. And in the end you hear people singing "Dayenu" that's a Jewish hymn. This song was probably written because Fat Mike and Eric Melvin are Jews. thanx to Antti Salo for these translations!
