Punk in Drublic

1994 studio album by NOFX

Punk in Drublic

Studio album by

NOFX

Released

July 19, 1994 (1994-07-19)

Recorded

1993–1994

Studio

Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California

Genre

Skate punk^[1]
hardcore punk^[2]
melodic hardcore^[3]

Length

39:55

Label

Epitaph

Producer

Ryan Greene, Fat Mike

NOFX chronology

White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
(1992)

Punk in Drublic
(1994)

I Heard They Suck Live!!
(1995)

Singles from Punk In Drublic

"Don't Call Me White"
Released: May 11, 1994^[4]
"Leave It Alone"
Released: 1995

Punk in Drublic is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX. It was released on July 19, 1994, through Epitaph Records. The title is a spoonerism of "Drunk in Public".

Punk in Drublic is NOFX's most successful album to date, peaking at number 12 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart.^[5] The album has received positive reviews and is now considered a classic punk album by fans and critics alike. Six years after its release, it became the band's only gold record for sales of over 500,000 copies^[6] in the United States. Worldwide, the record has sold over 1 million copies.^[7]

Reception and legacy

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[8]
Punk Planet	Favorable^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[9]
The Village Voice	A−^[10]

The AllMusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awards the album 4.5 stars and states: "The quartet didn't change their approach at all — at their core, they remain a heavy, speed-addled, hook-conscious post-hardcore punk group — but their songwriting has improved, as has their attack."^[8]

Accolades

Publication	Country	Accolade	Year	Rank
Guitar World	United States	Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994^[11]	2014	*
Kerrang!	United States	The 51 Most Essential Pop Punk Albums of All Time^[12]	2014	4
Kerrang!	United Kingdom	51 Greatest Pop Punk Albums Ever^[13]	2015	6

* denotes an unordered list

The album was a big influence on Blink-182's Cheshire Cat (1995), Unwritten Law's Oz Factor (1996), Lagwagon's Let's Talk About Feelings (1998), Sum 41's All Killer No Filler (2001) and Anti-Flag's The General Strike (2012).^[14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Fat Mike, except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Linoleum"		2:10
2.	"Leave It Alone"	Fat Mike, Eric Melvin	2:04
3.	"Dig"		2:16
4.	"The Cause"		1:37
5.	"Don't Call Me White"		2:33
6.	"My Heart Is Yearning"		2:23
7.	"Perfect Government"	Mark Curry	2:06
8.	"The Brews"		2:40
9.	"The Quass"		1:18
10.	"Dying Degree"		1:50
11.	"Fleas"		1:48
12.	"Lori Meyers"		2:21
13.	"Jeff Wears Birkenstocks"		1:26
14.	"Punk Guy"		1:08
15.	"Happy Guy"		1:58
16.	"Reeko"		3:05
17.	"Scavenger Type"		7:12
Total length:			39:55

Personnel

NOFX

Fat Mike - vocals, bass
Eric Melvin - guitar
El Hefe - guitar
Herb Reath Stinks - drums

Additional personnel

Mark Curry - additional vocals in "Perfect Government"
Kim Shattuck - additional vocals in "Lori Meyers"
Chris Dowd - trombone in "Dig"
Kenny Lyon - additional guitars
Mr. Rojers - steel drums in "My Heart Is Yearning"
New Jew Revue - gang vocals in "The Brews"
Ryan Greene; Fat Mike - producers
Ryan Greene - mixing, engineer
Steve Kravac - assistant engineer

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[15]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Album notes

The song "Jeff Wears Birkenstocks" was written about Jeff Abarta an Epitaph Records employee. In 2017, the Birkenstock company produced a short-form documentary about how the song came together that includes new interviews on the subject with Jeff and Fat Mike.^[16] Jeff later founded a band called Punk Is Dead that performs punk rock covers of Grateful Dead songs, and currently plays bass in Total Massacre as "Jeff Massacre."
"Linoleum" is referenced in the Pilot episode of One Tree Hill, when protagonist Lucas Scott notices a NOFX sticker on one of Peyton Sawyer's folders, he sings the line "that's me inside your head."
Track 17 contains a hidden track starting at 5:29, after three minutes of silence; guitarist El Hefe performs impressions of cartoon characters, such as Yosemite Sam and Popeye.
The song "Jeff Wears Birkenstocks?" is included in the EA Sports video game NCAA Football 06.
The song "Linoleum" was released as DLC for the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour.
The song "Linoleum" was also featured in the soundtrack for the game Grind Session.
"Linoleum" is also covered by hardcore-punk band Shai Hulud, post-third wave ska band Streetlight Manifesto on their 2010 album 99 Songs of Revolution, Bad Astronaut, August Burns Red and Frank Turner
The song "Lori Meyers" was covered by Aiden as a hidden track on their album Knives.
The song "Dying Degree" was covered by Evergreen Terrace on their cover album Writer's Block.
The song "Leave It Alone" references another song, "Bringing In the Sheaves", written in 1874 by Knowles Shaw. It is a popular American gospel song strongly associated with Protestant Christians. Despite this fact, both credited songwriters, Fat Mike and Eric Melvin are Jewish.
The song "Leave It Alone" was also featured in the soundtrack for the game Watch Dogs 2.

References

Citations

^ Chesler, Josh (September 29, 2015). "10 Best Skate Punk Albums of All Time". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
^ Heller, Jason (December 3, 2013). "1994 rocketed Green Day and The Offspring from punks to superstar punks". The A.V. Club. Retrieved July 31, 2022. although NOFX itself was on Epitaph, including 1994's Punk In Drublic, an album whose goofy irreverence and hardcore speed belied a deep knack for pop songcraft and wordplay that was both silly and genuinely witty—not to mention satirical of the punk scene itself.
^ ^a ^b Dandy, Will (September–October 1994). "Record Reviews". Punk Planet (3): 59.
^ "NOFX". Fat Wreck Chords.
^ AllMusic Charts: Punk In Drublic Accessed 3 June 2008
^ RIAA Certification: (requires search) Archived 2007-06-26 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 3 June 2008
^ Rob Spectre (2009-05-25). "(d)N0t » Blog Archive » Dream Not Of Today – On The Shitter With Fat Mike by Rob Spectre". Dreamnotoftoday.com. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
^ ^a ^b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Punk in Drublic – NOFX". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
^ Matos, Michaelangelo (2004). "NOFX". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 590. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ Christgau, Robert (June 6, 1995). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
^ "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994". GuitarWorld.com. July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
^ Bird, ed. 2014, p. 74
^ "51 Greatest Pop Punk Albums Ever". Kerrang! (1586): 18–25. September 16, 2015.
^ Sayce 2014, p. 38
^ "American album certifications – NOFX – Punk in Drublic". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
^ "NOFX: Jeff wears Birkenstocks? | Birkenstories BIRKENSTOCK". www.birkenstock.com. Retrieved 2021-01-18.

Sources

Bird, Ryan, ed. (September 2014). "The 51 Most Essential Pop Punk Albums of All Time". Rock Sound (191). London: Freeway Press Inc. ISSN 1465-0185.
Sayce, Rob (September 2014). Bird, Ryan (ed.). "Hall of Fame: Punk in Drublic". Rock Sound (191). London: Freeway Press Inc. ISSN 1465-0185.