If you think the cover is good, wait until you actually hear this. Great riffs, witty lyrics, awesome solos. All in 2- min songs, just to make you want more.
May 4, 2007 |  | (an album not lacking in personality) |  |
NoFX is an interesting band; one I still find respectable in a weird way. There are some down-right hideous stops along their bizzare 20+ year career path objectively speaking. The bad moments are colossally BAD... but then the band's moments of brilliance are so spectacular that all is forgiven. When NoFX is "on" they are un-nervingly great. It's not where you start, it's what results, right?
Ribbed is the album I always thought was the closest thing NoFX has to an "even" album (lol). All the signature elements are there... the fingerprints of a punk band never lacking in personality. This recording is the harbinger of a band ready to peak (Longest Line to White Trash to Punk In Drublic was EASILY the golden era of NoFX). Yes, El Hefe is absent on this and yes, there is a seriously "metal" twang consistantly coating this disk, but I find it to be a practically seemless and smooth ride, with enough rewarding and firey moments to lay off the skip button and enjoy this goofy imperfect band.
"Malachi Crunch" has got to be one of the most under-appreciated songs of the band's career.
January 16, 2007This is the first CD where NOFX begins to become more of a poppy punk band some may say. However,with the use of great guitars and funny lyrics and an improving voice, NOFX releases their first five star album. The energy they have in this CD is amazing, great album, buy it.
May 6, 2006| | | Maybe what we had was just green corn... | |
Much better than their 'War On Errorism' and 'Pump Up The Valuum' CDs, that's for sure. Now, this may not be the most intelligent of albums, and yes, it IS poppy, but it's much better than Liberal Animation. This is when they started gettin' good. Liberal Animation...oh god. That album is such a horrible disgrace to punk rock music. It had some of the stupidest lyrics I've ever read in my entire life. It was almost as if they had been written in ten seconds or something. Atleast on here, it sounds like they started working on what they were writing about and they just didn't jot down whatever they were thinking and make it rhyme badly. Good examples of this are 'Green Corn' and 'The Moron Brothers'. The latter being a joke song, but a pretty well written one. Anyway, this, in my personal opinion, is NOFX's best album because they weren't at their current status: Pretentious and ignorant. But, they still have that same cool, fun pop-ish sound that I can really get into. Another great NOFX album is 'White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean'. Oh, and I also really like 'Heavy Petting Zoo' and 'So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes'. Hm...those are probably the only NOFX albums that I truly like. So, um, anyway, get this album. It's awesome.
Edit: Okay, I'll admit it. Liberal Animation has GREAT guitar solos, but that's it. Guitar solos do not make the band. Yeah, Fat Mike's got one hell of an ego now and their 'War On Errorism' CD proves it, but hey. Atleast they were still decent people when this album was recorded!
March 8, 2006 | | A vastly overrated and disappointing decline from greatness | |
What can I say about this album? Well, apparently a lot. This is one album that I can honestly say is mediocre at best. Really, take a look at NOFX: the once mighty gods of technical thrashy hardcore punk are now reduced to nothing more but a blase, pretentious, whiny, Epitaph-conformed pop rock band using the anti-MTV and pseudo-punk image as an excuse for unoriginal pop music lacking in the dynamic that made NOFX strong on releases like Liberal Animation or their beginning EPs (which are now featured on the Maximum Rocknroll CD). The things that made NOFX great are gone now: The energetic and intelligent use of guitars that was helped from the slight metal influence and 2nd guitarist Steve Kidwiller, the well-thought-out arrangements, aggressive energy, well placed spurts of angry thrash attacks, amazing solos, technicality, etc. And yet the underground enjoys gobbling garbage like this right up and then complain that earlier releases are 'too hard to listen to'. Sad indeed. Look at Mike now: Fat, egobloated, and more in his sickeningly stupid psuedo-'punk' rut than ever. These guys are hopeless. It's embarrassing to know they've inspired so many bands.
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