Revisiting and Ranking NOFX’s 14 Albums

As easily one of the biggest and most known bands in the punk scene, NOFX has amassed a giant fanbase over their nearly 40 years as a band. They are undeniably the most popular punk band to have never joined a major label, this alone has given them a lot of credit through the years. In fact, a major part of the band’s contribution to music has been singer Fat Mike and ex-wife Erin Burkett’s record label Fat Wreck Chords which has gone on to be one of the most important punk record labels of all time.

The band was formed in 1983 by “Fat” Mike Burkett (vocals & bass), Eric Melvin (guitar), and Eric “Smelly” Sandin (drums). They then went through a couple of lead guitarists (Dave Casillas and Steve Kidwiller) before the lineup was finalized in 1991 when multi-instrumentalist Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta joined.

As opposed to a lot of punk bands at the time, NOFX were able to stand out from others by incorporating stylistic variety into their music, and with the release of Punk In Drublic they not only cemented their own legacy in the genre but also created a blueprint for skatepunk music for at least the next decade.

There are countless things the band has accomplished in their time— writing The Decline (an 18-minute long epic), traveling to a bunch of countries that punk bands don’t normally travel to, making a split record with…