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So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
Studio album by NOFX
Released	November 11, 1997
Recorded	August 1997 Motor Studios, San Francisco, USA
Genre	Punk rock , Ska punk
Length	33:00
Label	Epitaph
Producer(s)	Fat Mike Ryan Greene
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NOFX chronology
Heavy Petting Zoo (1996)	So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes (1997)	Pump Up the Valuum (2000)

The punk rock band NOFX released this album on November 11, 1997.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Track listing 3 Trivia 4 Personnel 5 External links

The band often find themselves inexplicably bombarded by footwear while performing on stage. From this, and the title of the fourth book of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, comes the record's title. This album also contains more ska than any other NOFX release.

The album was recorded at San Francisco's Motor Studios in August 1997 and was produced by Fat Mike and regular Fat Wreck Chords producer Ryan Greene. The liner notes for the album claim it is 'arguably their third best album' (up to that point). Also therein the standard practice of including a photograph of each band member has been mocked, with members of other punk bands standing in for the four NOFX members:

• Fat Mike is replaced by Serge Verkhovsky, bassist in Limp,
• El Hefe is replaced by Otis Bartholomeu, vocalist and guitarist in Fluf,
• Eric Melvin (listed as just "Melvin") is replaced by 'Little John', roadie for Swingin' Utters,
• Erik Sandin (listed as "Smelly") is replaced by Chuck Platt, bassist in Good Riddance.

Track 9, "Champs Elysées", is a cover version of the track "Les Champs-Elysées" by Joe Dassin. [1]

The final track, "Falling in Love", is reportedly a love song about Fat Mike and his wife Erin being together as a plane crashes. The track has a 'hidden ending' that starts at timecode 4:15. It is a recording of a segment from Howard Stern's radio show in which the host's DJ begins to play the track "Drugs are Good", from the band's HOFX EP. He clearly dislikes the track and stops it after 36 seconds, effectively labelling it as disco before going on to rename the band 'No Talent'. The first pressing of the cd contains an extented bonus track: 8min instrumental immediately after this radio show segment, that ends with a 10 seconds acoustic song "Congratulations, you made it through the song, I bet you never thought anyone could play something so wrong".

On the CD it bears the Warning "Unlawful Duplication May be Hazardous to your Heath!"

• All songs written by Fat Mike unless stated

1. "It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite" – 1:21
2. "Kids of the K-Hole" – 2:17
3. "Murder the Government" – 0:46
4. "Monosyllabic Girl" – 0:55
5. "180 Degrees" – 2:10
6. "All His Suits Are Torn" – 2:19
7. "All Outta Angst" – 1:53
8. "I'm Telling Tim" – 1:17
9. "Champs Elysées" (Wilsh, Deighan, P Delanoë) – 2:02
10. "Dad's Bad News" – 2:02
11. "Kill Rock Stars" – 1:33
12. "Eat the Meek" – 3:32
13. "The Desperation's Gone" – 2:25
14. "Flossing a Dead Horse" – 1:46
15. "Quart in Session" – 1:38
16. "Falling in Love" – 5:13
    • Contains a hidden track: see Overview, above.

• The song "Flossing a Dead Horse" is a reference to the Sex Pistols album "Flogging a Dead Horse"
• The song "Kids of the K-Hole" is a reference to The Adolescents song "Kids of the Black Hole".

• Fat Mike (vocals, bass)
• Eric Melvin (guitar)
• El Hefe (guitar)
• Erik Sandin (drums)

• Serge Slovnik (tuba, trombone)
• Nate Albert ("chanky" guitar)
• Ryan Greene (tambourine)
• Spike Slawson (backing vocals)

• Recorded in August, 1997, at Motor Studios, San Francisco, USA
• Produced by Ryan Greene and Fat Mike
• Engineered by Ryan Greene
• Second engineered by Adam Krammer

• NOFX official website
• Epitaph Records
• Fat Wreck Chords

NOFX
Fat Mike | El Hefe | Eric Melvin | Erik Sandin
Scott Sellers | Scott Aldahl | Dave Allen | Dave Casillas | Steve Kidwiller
Discography
Studio albums: Liberal Animation | S&M Airlines | Ribbed | White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean | Punk in Drublic | Heavy Petting Zoo | So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes | Pump Up the Valuum | The War on Errorism | Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
Extended plays: NOFX | So What If We're on Mystic! | The P.M.R.C. Can Suck on This! | The Longest Line | Liza and Louise |Don't Call Me White | Leave it Alone | HOFX | Fuck the Kids | Louise and Liza | All of Me | Timmy the Turtle | The Decline | Bottles to the Ground | Pods and Gods | Fat Club 7 | Surfer | Regaining Unconsciousness | 13 Stitches | 7" of the Month Club | Never Trust a Hippy
Compilation and live albums: I Heard They Suck Live!! | Maximum Rocknroll | 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records | The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!)