NOFX - E Is For Everything On Mystic Records / Maximum Rocknroll

NOFX - E Is For Everything On Mystic Records / Maximum Rocknroll (1989)

E Is For Everything On Mystic / Maximum Rocknroll is an album by NOFX that compiles early singles and demo songs. It was released in 1989 by Mystic Records without the band's consent. Maximum Rocknroll was released as an LP, CD, and cassette. The cassette album was given a different title, E is for Everything..., although the track listing was identical to the other formats. E is for Everything is currently out of print.

NOFX's lo-fi debut is mid-'80s SoCal punk in the vein of other bratty, mile-a-minute punk bands. While most of the sonic characteristics that later defined the group's sound (including Bad Religion-influenced vocal harmonies) are missing, Maximum Rock'n'Roll proves that NOFX's goofball humor was in effect from day one (see "Six Pack Girls," "Cops and Donuts," and "Shitting Bricks"). Perhaps best of all is the band's cover of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." The liner notes include a June 1991 Maximum Rock 'n' Roll interview with Fat Mike, in which he gives props to bands like Snuff and Green Day. Amusing and historically interesting, but only for serious fans.