So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
Studio album by NOFX
Released	November 11, 1997
Recorded	August 1997 Motor Studios, San Francisco, USA
Genre	Punk Rock Skate punk Ska punk
Length	33:16
Label	Epitaph
Producer	Fat Mike Ryan Greene
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
NOFX chronology
Heavy Petting Zoo (1996) So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes (1997) Pump Up the Valuum (2000)

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Overview

The band often find themselves inexplicably bombarded by footwear while performing on stage. From this, and the title of the fourth book of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, comes the record's title. [1] Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984, ISBN 0-345-39183-7) is the fourth book of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams. ...

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: This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Michael Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. ... Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock, which was started by Fat Mike the lead singer and bassist of the punk rock band NOFX and his wife Erin, in 1990. ... Ryan Greene is an American record producer, sound engineer, owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale, AZ and owner of Altered Vision Mastering. ... NOFX are a punk rock band that formed in Berkeley, California in 1983. ...

• Fat Mike is replaced by Serge Verkhovsky, bassist in Limp,
• El Hefe is replaced by Otis Bartholomeu, vocalist and guitarist in Fluf,
• Eric Melvin (listed as just "Melvin") is replaced by 'Little John', roadie for Swingin' Utters,
• Erik Sandin (listed as "Smelly") is replaced by Chuck Platt, bassist in Good Riddance.

Track 9, "Champs Elysées", is a cover version of the track "Les Champs-Elysées" by Joe Dassin. [2] Michael Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. ... Limp were a four to three piece punk rock band whos first album Pop and Disorderly was released on the honest Dons label in 1997, they had three albums after this all released on the Honest Dons label. ... Aaron Abeyta, known as El Hefe, from el jefe (Spanish for the boss), is the most recent member of the legendary and seminal California punk band NOFX. He plays lead guitar, and provides trumpet parts whenever they are necessary. ... Eric Melvin, sometimes called Melvin for short, is one of two guitarists in the California punk band NOFX. He has been in the band from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day. ... $wingin Utter$ is a punk band that has been around since the late 1980s/early 1990s. ... Erik Sandin, often called smelly, is the drummer of the popular California punk band NOFX. He was a founding member of the band when they formed in Hollywood, California, in 1983, but moved to Santa Barbara two years later, leaving the band. ... Good Riddance (or GR) is a punk rock band hailing from Santa Cruz, California. ... Avenue des Champs-Élysées from Place de la Concorde, seen from above the obelisk The Champs-Élysées (pronounced  audio? literally the Elysian fields) is a broad avenue in the French capital Paris. ... Joe Dassin Joseph Ira Dassin (November 5, 1938 – August 20, 1980) was a French-speaking American musician. ...

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'. The first pressing of the cd contains an extented bonus track: 8min instrumental immediately after this radio show segment, that ends with a 10 seconds acoustic song "Congratulations, you made it through the song, I bet you never thought anyone could play something so wrong". Falling in love is a mainly Western term used to describe the process of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards someone, to one of love. ... Michael Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. ... This article is a biography of Howard Stern as an individual; for information regarding his radio show see The Howard Stern Show. ... HOFX is a 12single by NOFX that includes two songs from the Punk in Drublic period. ... Disco is a genre of dance-oriented pop music that was popularized in dance clubs (discothèques) in the mid-1970s, and which dominated mainstream pop until the late 1970s. ...

On the CD it bears the Warning "Unlawful Duplication May be Hazardous to your Health!"

Track listing

• All songs written by Fat Mike unless stated

1. "It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite" – 1:21
2. "Kids of the K-Hole" – 2:17
3. "Murder the Government" – 0:46
4. "Monosyllabic Girl" – 0:55
5. "180 Degrees" – 2:10
6. "All His Suits Are Torn" – 2:19
7. "All Outta Angst" – 1:53
8. "I'm Telling Tim" – 1:17
9. "Champs Elysées" (Wilsh, Deighan, P Delanoë) – 2:02
10. "Dad's Bad News" – 2:02
11. "Kill Rock Stars" – 1:33
12. "Eat the Meek" – 3:32
13. "The Desperation's Gone" – 2:25
14. "Flossing a Dead Horse" – 1:46
15. "Quart in Session" – 1:38
16. "Falling in Love" – 5:13
    • Contains a hidden track: see Overview, above.

Michael Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. ... In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music which has been placed on a Compact Disc, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener. ... The punk rock band NOFX released this album on November 11, 1997. ...

Trivia

• The song "Flossing a Dead Horse" is a reference to the Sex Pistols album "Flogging a Dead Horse"
• The song "Kids of the K-Hole" is a reference to The Adolescents song "Kids of the Black Hole", as well as a reference to the effects of the drug ketamine, or Special K.
• The song "Kill Rock Stars" is titled in reference to the record label which released records by Kathleen Hannah's band Bikini Kill. The lyrics read as a response to accusations of misogyny made by Kathleen against Fat Mike, with the final line being "I wish I could have seen Courtney demonstrate some real misogyny", most likely referring to an altercation between Courtney Love and Kathleen Hannah at Lollapalooza in 1995. [3] [4]
• The Tim in the song "I'm Telling Tim" is probably Tim Yohannan, founder of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, who was known for his very firm stance on what qualified as "Punk".

The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk rock band, formed in London in 1975. ... Flogging a Dead Horse is a compilation album of singles by the Sex Pistols, released after their break-up, and includes the four songs that were issued as singles A-sides from Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols with three of their B-sides, as well as... The Adolescents are a punk music group formed in 1980 in Fullerton, California. ... Kids of the Black Hole is a song by The Adolescents. ... Kathleen Hanna is a American musician. ... Bikini Kill was a punk band of the Riot Grrrl movement formed in Olympia, Washington in October of 1990. ... Misogyny (IPA: ) is hatred or strong prejudice against women; an antonym of philogyny. ... Courtney Love Cobain[1] (born July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and Golden Globe-nominated actress, best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. ... Lollapalooza is an American music festival featuring rock, alternative rock, hip hop, and punk rock bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. ... Tim Yohannan, born August 15, 1945, died April 3, 1998 in Berkeley, California, California of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, was the founder of Maximum Rock and Roll (MRR), a radio show and zine documenting the punk scene around the world. ... Maximum Rocknroll Issue #1 Maximum Rocknroll (also known as MRR) is a widely distributed, monthly punkzine based in San Francisco, USA. It features interviews, columns, and reviews from international contributors. ...

Personnel

• Fat Mike (vocals, bass)
• Eric Melvin (guitar)
• El Hefe (guitar)
• Erik Sandin (drums)

• Serge Slovnik (tuba, trombone)
• Nate Albert ("chanky" guitar)
• Ryan Greene (tambourine)
• Spike Slawson (backing vocals)

• Produced by Ryan Greene and Fat Mike
• Engineered by Ryan Greene
• Second engineered by Adam Krammer

Michael Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. ... Eric Melvin, sometimes called Melvin for short, is one of two guitarists in the California punk band NOFX. He has been in the band from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day. ... Aaron Abeyta, known as El Hefe or simply Hefe, from el Jefe (Spanish for the boss), is the most recent member of the legendary and seminal California punk band NOFX. Given this name by his fellow band members for his superior mastery of the instruments he plays, Hefe plays lead... Erik Sandin, often called smelly, is the drummer of the popular California punk band NOFX. He was a founding member of the band when they formed in Hollywood, California, in 1983, but moved to Santa Barbara two years later, leaving the band. ... Ryan Greene is an American record producer, sound engineer, owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale, AZ and owner of Altered Vision Mastering. ... Ryan Greene is an American record producer, sound engineer, owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale, AZ and owner of Altered Vision Mastering. ... Michael Burkett, more commonly known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and bassist of the popular band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. ... Ryan Greene is an American record producer, sound engineer, owner of Crush Recording Studios in Scottsdale, AZ and owner of Altered Vision Mastering. ...

External links

• NOFX official website
• Epitaph Records
• Fat Wreck Chords