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So NOFX have recently celebrated their 25th Anniversary
as a band and to coincide with they have just released
their 11th full-length studio album ‘Coaster’,
a title that NOFX chose as a little dig at the way
the music industry is currently going with most
people scrapping their CD collection for digital
downloads instead and the only use for the CD being
a coaster in many households, you have to respect
NOFX for their humour and for them to make a good
thing out of something bad.
Now ‘Coaster’ is not much different
sounding than the last few albums that NOFX have
been releasing, it features the same type of topics
such as politics, drug abuse, religion, lesbians
and pretty much whatever else Fat Mike wants to
rant about and it is done in true NOFX poppy punk
style.
The album starts with ‘We Called It America’,
now it wouldn’t be a true NOFX record if
it didn’t have a song about America that
slag’s off the government and how things
have changed in America over the years, so yeah
‘We Called It America’ is a big old
political song, it’s the perfect opening
track because it’s extremely catchy with
Fat Mike’s fast flowing melodic vocals,
the track also features a breathtaking guitar
solo that has Guitar Hero written all over it.
‘The Quitter’ is yep you guessed
it a song about drugs, and the song is humorous
with the witty style of lyrics that NOFX have
been writing for years, the pace of the song is
extremely fast and proper up tempo, I can see
‘The Quitter’ becoming a live fan
favourite at NOFX shows in the near future.
‘First Call’ is a bit of a departure
from the fast paced style of the first two tracks
on the album, but instead the song is really bouncy
with a massive bouncy sounding bass line running
throughout the whole song, once again lyrically
the song is fun with Fat Mike singing about drinking
from 6 in the morning and generally having a drunken
time.
‘My Orphan Year’ starts off sounding
a bit serious for NOFX, but after about 30seconds
the guitars come in thick and fast with the drumming
making an equally big sound, but overall the song
appears to be more low tempo than the first couple
of tracks on the album which is good to see that
NOFX still like to mix things up with a wide variety
of sounds and styles on their albums.
The funniest song on the album has to be ‘Creeping
Out Sara’, the song is about lesbians and
is such a bouncy track that Fat Mike covers vocally
in such a fun and passionate way with his more
spoken word than punk rock style vocals.
Another highlight from the album has to be ‘I
Am An Alcoholic’ for a number of reasons,
the first being that the band bring out the horn
section with the saxophone opening up the track,
secondly the track is extremely catchy and bouncy
sounding, thirdly the vocals are extremely funny
and last but not least the song features some
amazing sing-a-long parts.
It’s good to see that this time around
NOFX have created a short album, ok the album
isn’t short as it runs for over 30minutes
but what I mean is that it features 12 killer
tracks, whilst their previous album ‘Wolves
In Wolves’ Clothing’ featured 18 tracks
and many of those were fillers but this time around
they have created a big fun 12 track album.
‘Coaster’ is how punk rock should
be and I think that any new band who wants to
join the punk rock scene should look into the
history of NOFX as they are a band who have had
a really successful career and still have many
more years ahead of themselves as one of the heavy
weight punk rock bands in the world.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Fat Mike (Vocals & Bass)
El Hefe (Guitar & Vocals
Eric Melvin (Guitar)"
Erik Sandin (Drums) |
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1. We Called It America
2. The Quitter
3. First Call
4. My Orphan Year
5. Blasphemy (The Victimless Crime)
6. Creeping Out Sara
7. Eddie, Bruce and Paul
8. Best God In Show
9. Suits and Ladders
10. The Agony of Victory
11. I Am an Alcoholic
12. One Million Coasters |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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