History Music / NOFX

* ThisIsASong: ''Please Play This Song On The Radio''

* HiddenTrack: ''So Long And Thanks For All The Fish'' has a brief clip of Creator/HowardStern playing their song "Drugs Are Good" on the air hidden after the last track - Stern doesn't even let the song play long enough for the vocals to start, dismissing it for not "rocking" enough and suggesting they change their name to No Talent.

* AccentuateTheNegative: The liner notes for their greatest hits album, ''The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)'' contain clippings of the most negative reviews the band has ever received, including one from a critic who claimed that a bite on his privates from a deer tick he'd recently gotten was pleasant compared to the album he was reviewing.

* SelfDeprecation. NOFX's two live albums ''I Heard They Suck Live!'' and ''They've Actually Gotten Worse Live!''

* ShoutOut: ''So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes'' is a play on a quote from ''Literature/TheHitchhickersGuideToTheGalaxy'': In the book, the last message the dolphins send out to mankind before departing a soon-to-be-destroyed earth is "so long and thanks for all the fish". They replaced "fish" with "shoes" because audiences tend to throw their footwear onstage at outdoor punk shows.

* ShoutOut: ''So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes'' is a play on a quote from ''Literature/TheHitchHickersGuideToTheGalaxy'': In the book, the last message the dolphins send out to mankind before departing a soon-to-be-destroyed earth is "so long and thanks for all the fish". They replaced "fish" with "shoes" because audiences tend to throw their footwear onstage at outdoor punk shows.

* DigitalPiracyIsOkay / DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Parodied in a hidden advertisement for ''The War On Errorism'' on their EP ''Regaining Unconsciousness'', which ends with El Hefe encouraging the listener to go pick up the album at their nearest independent record store, followed by a very fast, half-whispered "Also available for free on the internet."

** During the Bush administration the band noticeably became more political in their songs. Fat Mike also produced two compilations in 2004 entitled ''Rock Against Bush'' for his label Fat Wreck Chords.

** RefugeInAudacity: Quite a few songs, but "She's Nubs" off of "The War on Errorism" is a fairly good example. The song depicts a woman who has no arms or legs that enjoys going to punk shows (and who turned down Fat Mike's invitation to go hang out before being carried away in someone's backpack), despite the difficulties she faces in her life. The real life Nubs (a Toronto woman named Talli - who has legs and a job) [[http://www.nofxwiki.net/wiki/index.php?title=Nubs_by_punknews.org absolutely loves the song, and says that she wouldn't have turned down Fat Mike in real life]]. The kicker? The ''only'' thing she was offended at about the song was a random line about her inability to "give good head".

* BestialityIsDepraved[=/=]ComtemptibleCover: The cover to ''Heavy Petting Zoo'' depicts a man cuddling in a...rather interesting way with a lamb. Then there's the cover of ''Eating Lamb'', depicting him in a 69 position...make note that the album has no references to bestiality, nor animals or zoos in general, at all.

* EpicRocking: "The Decline" lasts over a whopping ''18 minutes''.

** During the Bush administration the band noticeably became more political in their songs. Fat Mike also produced two compilations in 2004 entitled "Rock against Bush" for his label Fat Wreck Chords.
* PunBasedTitle: ''Heavy Petting Zoo'' and ''The War On Errorism''.

* SelfDeprecation. NOFX's two life albums ''I Heard They Suck Live!'' and ''They've Actually Gotten Worse Live!''

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Back in 1991 nobody expected the swine/avian flu and the mass hysteria that ensued. Suddenly "Just The Flu" wasn't that ridiculous anymore...

* FunnyAneurismMoment: Back in 1991 nobody expected the H1N1 and the mass hysteria that ensued. Suddenly "Just The Flu" wasn't that ridiculous anymore...

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth.

* LongRunnerLineup: Type 2, as the band's lineup has been the same since 1991