The mildly offensive album art -- essentially, it's a play on the album's title -- disguises the fact that NOFX's punk rock is hardly breaking new ground. Taking the heavy guitar attack of the Sex Pistols and melding it with the us-against-them mentality of mid-'80s American hardcore, NOFX sounds like a conservative punk band with metal leanings. As an expression of adolescent rage, however, Heavy Petting Zoo serves its purpose -- it's basically a barrage of heavy riffs and gut-busting bellowing.
tell me what you need, i’ll try not to forget it♫ NOFX – Whatever Didi Wants / 1996This song will never cease to be epic. Although I discovered this jam on the same Punk-O-Rama 2 compilation that turned me on to Millencolin I just never got into NOFX at the time. Years later I got this album, and a few others, but NOFX…
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Certainly the best album cover, EVER. The Grand Pubah of them all. I was told that the inside sleeve (with the sheep pinned on his back) was the cover released in Europe in the '90s, and caused many protests. Leave it to NOFX, eh?This is a must have for your album collection, not because the music is timeless, because it is not. But the music (and photos) move you. Disturb you, if you will, (an
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