Monday, February 15, 2010

NOFX and the Political Bands

As a fan of punk rock I often listen to bands with political messages or agendas. The most politicized band I can think of is a band called NOFX. With album titles like "War on errorism" and song titles like "the idiot son of an asshole" its easy to see nofx's stance on political issues and their feelings towards former president George W. Bush. I've seen nofx in concert maybe 3 times at various warped tours and aside from the songs themselves acting as political propaganda, fat mike (bassist/frontman for nofx) almost always gives some kind of a speech before each song to make his views explicit. Heres an example,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYhXrW3MaAE