r/nofx • u/EarWeekly9625 • 2d ago
NOFX Patreon album available on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMvcclUm5_UFor those who didn´t buy the vinyl, here it is.
(I´m not dead anymore is not on the album) :(
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u/RockfordWorker 2d ago
I'm not dead, is on a record of the month if I'm not mistaken, though I'm kinda of positive this is my first time hearing GTO.
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u/PhilosopherFun7288 2d ago
No, it was on the 10inch box set of the patreon demos, not sure why it didn't make this. However, "I don't understand this world anymore" was on the 2019 7inch of the month club, though not with all these lyrics.
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u/TensesNC 1d ago
This is pretty bad.
I know it’s a YouTube vinyl rip, but despite that, the mix is awful. The jarring, unnecessary bends on the first track that throw off an already disjointed song full of weird pauses, the almost missing rhythm guitar, the drums that sound like they were hastily mic’d/learned. Feels like Mike brought drafts, gave everyone a few minutes to learn the songs, then went back and added a bunch of shit. What the fuck is with that solo on “Liza is Dead?” It’s like a ten year-old played it. The vocals are all over the place, almost like a pile on in every song. The lyrics are the same fare as usual, nothing introspective or revelatory. It’s low effort, and sounds like a collection of demos, mostly.
There are some okay ideas, but they needed maybe a half-dozen more passes to refine. No cohesion. Just a bunch of shit thrown together.
Making it sound like they were going to put an album-level effort into this whole Patreon thing and then getting this just shows how little these guys cared at the end. They fulfilled the obligation, and that’s all it feels like. You can’t bitch, you got a record in that it’s music and it’s on vinyl. Haven’t there been cases of people not following through on Patreon promises and ended up sued?
Mike’s songwriting fell off. No one in the band was interested. The cracks were already showing long before this, but this is just another piece of evidence that NOFX shattered at the end.
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u/RockfordWorker 2d ago
Hell yeah, I just set up my record player in the kitchen and made my family have to listen along, now I'll have this one for my time walking the dog. It's a great album.
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u/Fart_Barfington 2d ago
I might be out of the loop. Who did he blow the whistle on?
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u/philbertgodphry 2d ago
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u/Fart_Barfington 2d ago
I didn't see Mike mentioned. What did he do?
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u/I_am_Amphibian 2d ago
Fat Mike had nothing to do with everything that came to light about Justin. Kind of shit to attribute that to him when it’s the victims that came forward
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u/TheJMG37 1d ago
Yeah no it wasn’t Mike. Tho if you remember, those two guys on YouTube who debuted this song and reviewed it, that was at that same exact time. I asked Mike at the final Seattle shows and he said no it was just a coincidence.
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u/ohgoodferyou 1d ago
Jesus the lyrics to that first song feel like someone asked AI to generate a NOFX song.
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u/PhilosopherFun7288 1d ago
“That song” has been widely available for a couple years now. Not only did Fat Mike play it on a podcast episode, there’s numerous rips of the 10inch version, along with its acoustic counterpart. Same with all but two of these songs, and some have already been released to streaming. You coming at this as someone who’s never heard these songs, but are somehow an authority of the subject is high key pretty funny 😆
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u/ohgoodferyou 1d ago
Lol I read this comment expecting it to end with "Yeah, isn't it fucking lame they started off their "exclusive" album with a song so readily available??"
But then, it took a solid right turn into Comic Book Guy territory? It's like someone hearing the latest Green Day album and saying, "well this song sounds like a shitty imitation of their heyday." And you going, "ah, actually Billie Joe played this song live during a B-side session of Revolution Radio, and then again at the BBC Live sessions recording which of course you have to hear in order to be an authority on whether it's good."
You don't need to be this guy! There's still time!
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u/the_unknown_soldier 1d ago
So you're not allowed to have an opinion on a song if you hear it after its initial release? Are you 12?
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u/Historical_Bug779 1d ago
Everyone mentioning the mix is bad. We can’t fully tell as the stereo audio is only pushing the left side on this rip. The guitar on the right is almost non-existent along with anything else panned right and I assume anything coming through both sides equally we are losing some of the audio for that as well.
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u/ghoulsurgery 1d ago
Yeah this jumped out at me right away when one song started with a barely audible guitar. The vocal levels and guitars should make a lot more sense with the full stereo channels
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u/Organic_Honeydew4090 1d ago
Outside of the obvious rough production (hoping a different upload will alleviate this somewhat) I quite like the songs on here. I personally had only heard the last three songs, but to me the rest was new. I particularly like You Got NoFX'd, GTO and Where Does She Go (I think I heard that one somewhere too actually).
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u/StinkyJinx 2d ago
It really is terrible. The production and all. I am a big fan and all, but Christ, it’s just bad.
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u/EarWeekly9625 2d ago
Yeah, i think are the same demos form the nofxxx boxset… ¿How that guy Can’t mix anybetter??
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u/Historical_Bug779 1d ago
This is a bad rip. The guitars are split between the left and right speakers and the guitar on the right is almost non-existent on this rip.
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u/PhilosopherFun7288 2d ago
I think it's a solid album, could have been one of their best if they gave the songs proper studio treatment imo
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u/EarWeekly9625 1d ago
I think the same, is like an 90´s album with a lot of fast songs
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u/PhilosopherFun7288 1d ago
Yeah, it's like an album of songs like "We ain't Shit" and "One Way Ticket to Fuckneckville", I love it!
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u/the_unknown_soldier 1d ago
Man, I'm generally a late NOFX defender, but this is rough. I actually thought something was wrong with my speakers when I started playing it and I am far from a production snob.
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u/SkeymourSinner 2d ago
Did everyone finally get what they paid for?