So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
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| So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes | ||
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| Album by NOFX | ||
| Released | November 11, 1997 | |
| Recorded | August, 1997 | |
| Genre | Punk rock | |
| Length | ?? min ?? s | |
| Record label | Epitaph | |
| Producer | Ryan Greene | |
| NOFX Chronology | ||
| Heavy Petting Zoo (1996) | So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes (1997) | Pump Up the Valuum (2000) |
The seminal punk rock band NOFX released this album on November 11, 1997.
Album Tracks
- "It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite"
- "Kids of the K-Hole"
- "Murder the Government"
- "Monosyllabic Girl"
- "180 Degrees"
- "All His Suits Are Torn"
- "All Outta Angst"
- "I'm Telling Tim"
- "Champs Elysées"
- "Dad's Bad News"
- "Kill Rock Stars"
- "Eat the Meek"
- "The Desperation's Gone"
- "Flossing a Dead Horse"
- "Quart in Session"
- "Falling in Love"
- Contains a hidden track: see Album Details, below.
Album Details
The band often find themselves inextricably bombarded by footwear while performing on stage. From this, and the title of the fourth book of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, comes the record's title.
The album was recorded at San Francisco's Motor Studios in August 1997 and was produced by Fat Mike and regular Fat Wreck Chords producer Ryan Greene. The liner notes for the album claim it is 'arguably their third best album' (up to that point). Also therein the standard practice of including a photograph of each band member has been mocked, with members of other punk bands standing in for the four NOFX members:
- Fat Mike is replaced by Serge Verkhovsky, bassist in Limp,
- El Hefe is replaced by Otis Bartholomeu, vocalist and guitarist in Fluf,
- Eric Melvin is replaced by 'Little John', roadie for Swingin' Utters,
- Erik Sandin is replaced by Chuck Platt, bassist in Good Riddance.
Track 9, "Champs Elysées", is a cover version of the track "Aux Champs-Elysées" by Joe Dassin. The final track, "Falling in Love", is reportedly a love song about Fat Mike and his wife Erin being together as a plane crashes. The track has a 'hidden ending' that starts at timecode 4:15. It is a recording of a segment from Howard Stern's radio show in which the host's DJ begins to play the track "Drugs are Good", from the band's HOFX EP. He clearly dislikes the track and stops it after 36 seconds, effectively labelling it as disco before going on to rename the band 'No Talent'.