Rainydawg Album Review
The Greatest Songs Ever Written
NOFX
Sometimes when you're a good person, good things happen to you. I am not a good person, but today a very good thing happened to me: I got my hands on the latest NOFX and it was pretty cool.
The Greatest Songs Ever Written is the first greatest hits album put together by NOFX after 21 years of playing together, which makes the band older than the ages of the rockers themselves when they first formed in 1983. Not only is the album a prime mix of 27 of our NOFX favorites remastered (Bob, Linoleum, Leave it Alone, The Longest Line, Philthy Phil Philanthropist and Kill All the White Man to name a few), but the album booklet is full of old photos (there’s one of their first “tour bus” --mom's station wagon? as well as of a very young NOFX hitting a beer bong), nasty smack-down, sh&% talking reviews (“Over Produced, melodically boring, old hat tricks…Boring punk rock kids…you suck!” – Epitaph review of Punk in Drublic LP, 1994), very old flyers and an even older interview from when they got back from their first mini-tour in 1983-haha! What dorks! And I thought it was only a rumor that Fat Mike used to be skinny…
Yeah, yeah so it’s still an album of old songs that us fans have already heard a zillion ba-jillion times with that “one new track” that bands just have to put on their greatest hits album…but it’s NOFX so I guess they still rule. Leave it to them to make fun of themselves (and state the truth) as they note on the last page of their booklet, “2004: We put out a greatest hits album and milk it for all it’s worth.” Epitaph is usually pretty good at keeping things at a reasonable price, especially if you get it directly through them, so be too lazy to make your own greatest-NOFX songs mix and just get this.
Released Nov 9, 2004.