Album Haiku: NOFX (Hardcore EP) by NOFX
NOFX Rips Through
Nine 80’s Hardcore Covers
That Hit Hard and Fast
4 out of 5 stars
Songs We Can’t Take Off Repeat: “Friend or Foe” (Agnostic Front cover), “Police Brutality” (Urban Waste Cover) and Professional Punk (Stretch Marks Cover)
This somewhat mysterious NOFX EP of 9 Hardcore covers has no real title (everyone is calling it Hardcore), no track listing, no markings of side A or B on the record and was available on 7”, 10” and 12” vinyl. This EP is recorded in a lo-fi manner to sound like it came out in the 1980’s not 2011. When you drop the needle on the record the first three songs are Eric Melvin killing it on “Friend or Foe”, “IQ32” and “Police Brutality”. The album just plows through 1-2 minute classic 80’s hardcore songs with Fat Mike and Eric Melvin sounding great (although Eric Melvin does steal the show on this EP). It’s amazing to think that NOFX started as a band in 1983. Hardcore sounds like NOFX just having a blast playing the songs that they loved from the early days of being a band. With no track listings you will have to research the originals to figure out the songs you don’t know and who performed them. This album shows what you do when the leader of your band owns the record label your on….you put out cool great albums of whatever the fuck you want!
