NOFX occurs as punk band from California, sometimes referred to in a underground music click when "the funniest band in rock and roll." It were formed inside 1983 by high school-aged "Fat Mike" (real title Mike Burkett), Erik Sandin and Eric Melvin in Los Angeles. A root of their title is unremarkably attributed to the Boston punk band Negative FX

Background
It freed their debut EP NOFX on Mystic Records in 1984, which then surfaced within 1992 on the Maximum Rock and Roll C.D. (1992)

It recorded Liberal Animation in 1988 with Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion. A album was re-freed within 1991 on Gurewitz's label Epitaph Records. NOFX experienced signed to Epitaph by 1989, bringing out the album S&M Airlines.

By 1991 there got been much of changes to a b& all the same the original trine members had reunited and Aaron Abeyta (aka El Hefe) joined to round out a present line-higher.

It was non until a 1994 release of Punk in Drublic that the band got the popular breakthrough. A album went gold in the equivalent season pop-punk entered the mainstream using The Offspring's Smash and Green Day's Dookie. NOFX never matched a popularity of more tinny elastic, & come among people world health organization achieved popular acclamation in the mid-1990s & however saved their hardcore tinny fanbase world health organization reviled more elastic that it perceive when sell-outs.

Since 1994 they use at times consented to super couple of interviews & have mass produced exclusively pack music streaming videos. Yet, Fat Mike when did an locate for Guitar Globe inside 2003 yielding his opinion on the popular tinny elastic rising at that instance. Fat Mike was too interviewed by Australian radio station Triple J around 2004. Their official internet site features the Q&A section, where they answer questions sent in by fans. Updates stand non occurred to the Q&A section, but the archives can still be browsed. NOFX has continued to release independent records throughout their career. An extensive, about Xx report locate was done for the 2003 issue of AMP magazine. A band freed A Decline in 1999. With a duration of Eighteen proceedings & Xxiii seconds it will swell become the yearn chintzy song by any creative person up to now.

Inside 2003, NOFX released the Video entitled War on Errorism, an album of snarky political songs, which became the run of their anti-Bush campaign, and the rallying point for liberal punks. Since a Video's release, Fat Mike organized a internet site Punkvoter.com, compiled 2 chart topping "Rock Against Bush" CDs on the Fat Wreck label, and inaugurate the Rock Against Bush nationwide tour. Their emergence on a political scene has non faded fallowing the election.

A band has as well discharged numbers of EPs (Fuck the Kids, The Longest Line) on Fat Mike's have label Fat Wreck Chords. Around February of 2005 it launched a NOFX 7" of the Month Club, a subscription based service which will see the release of one new EP every month from February 2005 to January 2006 (a total of 12 releases.) The cover art for these 7-inches were chosen from fan-submitted entries, from which the band selected one submission for each month's record. Billed as "A season hanker documentation of their songwriting run," the first 3000 subscribers to the club will receive all of their records on coloured vinyl.

NOFX will be playing a gig in Hong Kong on the 12th of November 2005, their first stop for the Asia Tour.

A new album is widely expected to be released sometime in 2006.

Past and present members of NOFX

1983
Erik Sandin (drums) Eric Melvin (guitar) Fat Mike (bass, vocals)

1985
Scott Sellers (drums) Eric Melvin (guitar) Fat Mike (bass, vocals)

1986
(2 months) Scott Aldahl (drums) Dave Allen (vocals; died in a car accident) Eric Melvin (guitar) Fat Mike (bass)

1986
Erik Sandin (drums) Eric Melvin (guitar) Fat Mike (bass, vocals) Dave Casillas (guitar)

1989
Erik Sandin (drums) Eric Melvin (guitar) Fat Mike (bass, vox) Steve Kidwiller (guitar)

1991 - present
Erik Sandin (drums) Eric Melvin (guitar, accordian, vocals) Fat Mike (bass, vocals) El Hefe (guitar, trumpet, vocals)

NOFX Discography

Studio Albums - LPs

Liberal Animation (1988, re-released in 1991 for the CD version) - original version on Wassail Records in 1988 (limited to 1,500 copies) - Repress on Epitaph in 1991 S&M Airlines (1989) Ribbed (1991) - first 500 on clear-yellow vinyl White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean (1993) Punk in Drublic (1994) Heavy Petting Zoo (1996) So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes (1997) Pump Up the Valuum (2000) War on Errorism (2003) 7 Inch Of The Month Club (2005/2006)

EPs

NOFX (1985) - first 500 copies included lyric sheet, next 500 pressed on light-blue vinyl, others on black vinyl ''So What If We're on Mystic (1986) - fisrt 1000 copies on coloured vinyl (300 clear-yellow, 700 clear-blue), others on black vinyl The P.M.R.C. Can Suck on This! (1987) - original version on Wassail Records with hand-written labels (limited to 500 copies) - Repress on Fat Wreck Chords Split w/ Drowning Roses (1988) - limited to 500 copies, first 50 on clear-red vinyl The Longest Line (1992) - first 200 on dark-blue vinyl, some on grey vinyl, others on black vinyl Liza and Louise (1992) - first 10,000 on pink vinyl, others on black vinyl Don't Call Me White (1994) - limited to 1,500 white vinyl Leave It Alone (1995) - 2 versions: black vinyl with picture sleeve and picture disc HOFX (1995) - limited to 8,300 copies (1,000 picture disc and 7,300 random-coloured) Fuck the Kids (1996) - first 500 on clear-green vinyl, others on black vinyl All of Me (1996) - limited to 8,000 aqua vinyl The Decline (1999) - first 400 on clear vinyl Timmy the Turtle (1999) - limited to 9,499 green vinyl Louise and Liza (1999) - first 10,000 on purple vinyl, others on black vinyl Bottles to the Ground (2000) - limited to 40,000 copies Pods and Gods (2000) - limited to 12,000 orange vinyl Fat Club 7 (2001) - limited to 1,500 clear-yellow vinyl Surfer (2001) - first 500 on blue vinyl, others on black vinyl Regaining Unconsciousness (2003) - grey vinyl 13 Stitches (2003) - limited to 7,000 gold vinyl

Live Albums

I Heard They Suck Live!! (1995) Live

Other

BYO Split Series, Vol. 3 (2002) with, Rancid 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records (2002) 2-Discs 22 Songs that Weren't Good Enough to go on Our Other Records (vinyl)

Compilations

Maximum Rock and Roll (1992) Compilation The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!) (2004) Compilation

'Videos/DVD's

''Ten Years of Fuckin' Up'' (1994) VHS Video, later re-released on DVD