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NOFX
Band Los Angeles United States Active 1983–2024
NOFX formed in 1983 in Los Angeles, United States and was active until 2024. NOFX has 21 chart appearances on 20 radio countdowns from 10 stations on RockLists, spanning 1995–2017. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Bottles to the Ground”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #36. The station that charted NOFX most often is 91X (San Diego, CA / Tijuana), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
NOFX came howling out of Los Angeles in 1983 with Fat Mike on bass and lead vocals, Eric Melvin on rhythm guitar and Erik Sandin on drums, and those three stuck it out for the whole ride, give or take the year Sandin spent away after leaving in 1985. El Hefe arrived in 1991 on lead guitar and trumpet, which tells you plenty: this was a skate-punk band willing to let a horn and the odd ska skank into the mosh pit, and Melvin was known to strap on an accordion.
Punk in Drublic, their fifth album, came out in 1994 just as punk was busting into the mainstream, and it did the job without a major label anywhere in sight: "Leave It Alone" and a live take on "The Brews" are fast, snotty and hooky enough to hum on the bus, and the record became the only one of theirs certified gold. Heavy Petting Zoo brought "Philthy Phil Philanthropist", and Pump Up the Valuum in 2000 delivered "Bottles to the Ground", melodic hardcore with a smirk.
The EPs kept coming too, from Regaining Unconsciousness and its "Franco Un-American" to Never Trust a Hippy. By the end they had racked up fifteen studio albums and sixteen EPs and sold more than eight million records, all on independent terms. Double Album was the last studio album, and in October 2024 they called it a day after a farewell tour.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by NOFX on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bottles to the Ground | 5 | #36 | – | 2000 | |
| 2 | The Brews (live) | 1 | #98 | – | – | |
| 3 | Franco Un-American | 2 | #56 | – | 2003 | |
| 4 | Idiots Are Taking Over | 1 | #52 | – | 2003 | |
| 5 | I Don't Like Me Anymore | 1 | #30 | – | 2017 | |
| 6 | Philthy Phil Philanthropist | 2 | #61 | – | 1996 | |
| 7 | Leave It Alone | 3 | #95 | – | 1995 | |
| 8 | Oxy Moronic | 1 | #70 | – | 2016 | |
| 9 | Creeping Out Sara | 2 | #84 | – | 2009 | |
| 10 | Seeing Double at the Triple Rock | 1 | #80 | – | 2006 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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