NOFX
White Trash, Two Heebs And A Bean

THE REVIEW

First full-length CD for those carefree punkabbestia of NOFX with the stable and complete lineup including El Hefe after the EP “The Longest Line”. Title: “White Trash, Two Heebs And A Bean” (1992). An amazing album, in classic NOFX style: a core of wild punk-hardcore, marked by the super-fast drumming of Erik Sandin (in my opinion one of the best drummers in the punk scene, fast and precise), with many variations on the theme, like ska (the wonderful “Johnny Appleseed”), and in this LP even jazz and swing (“Buggley Eyes” and the cover of “Straight Edge” by Minor Threat where Fat Mike sings like Louis Armstrong), and always ironic lyrics (but never trivial) excellently sung by the legendary Fat Mike (not so much for the quality of the voice as for the energy he transmits).

The best tracks on the CD are: “Soul Doubt”, “Stickin’ In My Eye”, the very famous “Bob” (which talks about the life of a drunk punk, perhaps one of the most well-known), the irreverent “Liza & Louise”, “Warm” and “Please Play This Song On The Radio”, a piece (like “Punk Rock Elite” and “Dinosaurs Will Die”) against major labels and commercial music in general, a battle that NOFX still fights (in fact they publish all their albums on Bad Religion’s “Epitaph” or on “Fat Wreck”, their own label and do not air their videos on MTV). All inimitable songs, symbol of rebellion, that make you want to break everything, to mosh, that load you up fiercely against everything and everyone.

Certainly one of their best albums, a springboard toward the worldwide success achieved in 1994 with Punk In Drublic. From now on, the Californians in question will no longer miss a beat, without ever selling out to commercialism. Perhaps the last true punks with guts left in the '90s along with a few other bands.