Nofx - Cokie the clown

Cocaine addicted clowns and songs about a holiday to celebrate addiction... sounds like your typical NOFX release. When I heard that NOFX was going to release "Cokie The Clown EP", featuring 5 unreleased songs that was recorded during the "Coaster" sessions, I got to admit, I was pretty stoked. I actually liked "Coaster", and think it may have been the best NOFX release since "So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes".From the moody title track (possibly a metaphor for any drug addicted entertainer?) that features Melvin singing a decent amount, to the high energy Fermented and Flailing, I was actually really surprised by how solid Cokie The Clown is, and am wondering why these songs didn't make the "Coaster" cut.

The album opens with “Cokie The Clown,” a song that, in concert with the album’s cover art, offers up Fat Mike as a caricature of himself, recast as a drug-addled clown dragging his patrons down with him. It’s followed up with “Straight Outta Massachusetts,” an anecdotal song that relates, in a silly way, Mike’s move from Massachusetts to California as a kid. And the song surrounding the lyrics is top-notch power pop punk.

NOFX - Cokie The Clown

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