Pump up the Valuum
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| Studio album by NOFX | ||||
| Released | June 13, 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 1999-2000, Motor Studios, San Francisco, USA | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, melodic hardcore, skate punk | |||
| Length | 31:35 | |||
| Label | Epitaph | |||
| Producer | Ryan Greene, Fat Mike | |||
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| Rock Hard (de) | 9/10 |
Pump Up the Valuum is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX. It was released on June 13, 2000 on Epitaph Records, their last through the company.
The album's title deliberately misspells the trademark "Valium" to avoid a lawsuit, similar to the one The Melvins faced for their album Lysol. This is explained in the 45 Or 46 Songs... album booklet.
The initial song, "And Now for Something Completely Similar," is a parody of the famous saying "And Now for Something Completely Different" from Monty Python skits. As a prank, the intro sounds very similar to "Linoleum" from the band's 1994 album Punk in Drublic, right down to El Hefe warming up his voice before the song begins, while the solo bass part echoes Shadows of Defeat from Good Riddance. Both similarities are addressed in the song's lyrics.
The song "Dinosaurs Will Die" features a part of the intro skit from The F.U.'s song "Civil Defense" off the album 'Kill For Christ'. Surprisingly, the words which are spoken during this intro ("This is not a test of the emergency broadcast system") also appear in the Bad Religion song "Los Angeles Is Burning", on their 2004 album "The Empire Strikes First".
All of the vinyl copies of this record were colored blue.
According to Fat Mike, "...the title track 'Pump Up the Valuum' got cut from the album. That's weird. We gave it to Epitaph for Punk O Rama 5." Three other songs were mentioned in the Pump Up the Valuum booklet as songs that didn't make it to this record, but that will be in upcoming ones:
Other outtakes include "Pods and Gods", "Lower", "Bath of Least Resistance", "San Francisco Fat", and "Pump Up the Valium"..
In 2005, Pump Up the Valuum was ranked number 331 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. The album was included at number 17 on Rock Sound's "The 51 Most Essential Pop Punk Albums of All Time" list.
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