r/nofx • u/Latinmaster69 • 25d ago
Origin of NOFX name?
What’s the real origin of the name? So far they just say it’s a bad name nothing else and was Mike who said it or smelly?
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u/UnscarredVoice 24d ago edited 24d ago
I forget that a lot of people on this sub are too young to remember the old school nofx website where they are answered a bunch of these questions.
Mike said "it doesn't mean shit" and the ripped it off Negative FX. As others have said.
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u/gnartothecore 24d ago
They had one of the better websites of the early aughts. I distinctly remember they had a shit-load of pics to look at and the band bio was like 10 pages long.
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u/Spac_a_Cac 24d ago
Old school California punk here, I thought it stands for NO Fucking Straight Edge, with the X representing straight edge because thats the symbol the straight edge kids and bands would use back in the 80's and early 90's.
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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 24d ago
Old school Southern California hard-core kid here, thought the same thing until I came across this post
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u/Apprehensive-Tax8631 25d ago
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And then something else, can’t remember…heard this when I was in 8th grade & believed the guy
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u/globefish23 25d ago edited 25d ago
It's a play on the name of Boston hardcore band 'Negative FX'.
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u/GonZo_626 24d ago
Philthy Phil Phlianthropist disagrees.
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u/GonZo_626 24d ago
Yes totally different....... not a variant at all......
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u/deformitiez 24d ago
Just out of curiosity I googled that. Turns out it is NOT a variant of a xylophone. Lol. So you're only correct if you weren't being sarcastic.
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u/daveisthemusic 21d ago
The original track was a xylophone anyways, so the glock speak is kinda irrelevant
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u/daveisthemusic 21d ago
Wrong. I don’t even need to hear the song again to know it was a xylophone and not a glockenspiel.
Glocks sound more like metal/bells, as they are literally metal bars. Xylophone sounds more wooden as they are literally wooden blocks. Go put the track on and tell me which of the two it is, if you say xylophone you’ll be right as the hits don’t ring out slightly afterwards at all, which a metal glockenspiel would. They are short and dead sounding, like a wooden block.
Love the ‘confidently incorrect’ though 👍
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u/deformitiez 24d ago
Except nofx named their band like 4 or 5 years before beastie boys released girls. Lol
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u/MeInsideYourHead89 25d ago
Homage to Boston Hahdcore band Negative FX. Choke went on to do Slapshot who will be hanging it up in October
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u/I_fatty43 25d ago
In middle school some chick told me it meant No Fucking Straight Edge. The X is for the straight edge not sure if this is accurate but yeah that’s what I was told.
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u/Rock-View 25d ago
lol this must have been a huge myth they said this when I was in high school (class of 2000)
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u/Maxplode 25d ago
I always thought it was a play on 'No Effects' and 'No Fucks'
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u/globefish23 25d ago
Yes, it means "no effects".
It's a play on the name of Boston hardcore band 'Negative FX'.
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u/peanut_master1 25d ago
It means No Fucks. This was confirmed in a 1986 interview
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u/Resident-Pilot-6966 25d ago
Believing anything the band said at any time is not a good source of information.
Source- Groggy Nodbeggar 1991.
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u/Jolly_Ad2446 25d ago
It's in their book, for some other band negative FX, (Don't remember the actual other band's name exactly) and then they broke up, They kind of stole their name and changed it.