Punk in Drublic

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Punk in Drublic is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX. It was released on July 19, 1994, through Epitaph Records. The title is a spoonerism of "Drunk in Public".

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Reception and legacy

Template:Music ratings The AllMusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated: "The quartet didn't change their approach at all — at their core, they remain a heavy, speed-addled, hook-conscious post-hardcore punk group — but their songwriting has improved, as has their attack."<ref name="allmusic"/>

Accolades

Publication	Country	Accolade	Year	Rank
Guitar World	United States	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2014	*
United Kingdom		The 51 Most Essential Pop Punk Albums of All Time<ref name=bird>Bird, ed. 2014, p. 74</ref>	4
	Kerrang!	51 Greatest Pop Punk Albums Ever<ref name="kerrang15">Template:Cite journal</ref>	2015	6

* denotes an unordered list

The album was a big influence on Blink-182's Cheshire Cat (1995), Unwritten Law's Oz Factor (1996), Lagwagon's Let's Talk About Feelings (1998), Sum 41's All Killer No Filler (2001) and Anti-Flag's The General Strike (2012).<ref>Sayce 2014, p. 38</ref>

Personnel

• Fat Mike – vocals, bass
• Eric Melvin – guitar
• El Hefe – guitar, trumpet
• Herb Reath Stinks – drums
• Mark Curry – additional vocals in "Perfect Government"
• Kim Shattuck – additional vocals in "Lori Meyers"
• Chris Dowd – trombone in "Dig"
• Kenny Lyon – additional guitars
• Mr. Rojers – steel drums in "My Heart Is Yearning"
• New Jew Revue – gang vocals in "The Brews"
• Ryan Greene; Fat Mike – producers
• Ryan Greene – mixing, engineer
• Steve Kravac – assistant engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2025)	Peak position
Croatian International Albums (HDU)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	37

Album notes

• The song "Jeff Wears Birkenstocks" was written about Jeff Abarta, an Epitaph Records employee. In 2017, the Birkenstock company produced a short-form documentary about how the song came together that includes new interviews on the subject with Jeff and Fat Mike.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Track 17 contains a hidden track starting at 5:29, after three minutes of silence; guitarist El Hefe performs impressions of cartoon characters, such as Yosemite Sam and Popeye.
• "Linoleum" is covered by hardcore-punk band Shai Hulud, Russell and the Wolf Choir, post-third wave ska band Streetlight Manifesto on their 2010 album 99 Songs of Revolution, Bad Astronaut, August Burns Red and Frank Turner
• The song "Lori Meyers" was covered by Aiden as a hidden track on their album Knives.
• The song "Dying Degree" was covered by Evergreen Terrace on their cover album Writer's Block.
• The song "Leave It Alone" references another song, "Bringing In the Sheaves", written in 1874 by Knowles Shaw. It is a popular American gospel song strongly associated with Protestant Christians. Despite this fact, both credited songwriters, Fat Mike and Eric Melvin are Jewish.

References

Citations

Sources

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External links

• NOFX official website
• Epitaph Records
• Fat Wreck Chords
• Punk in Drublic at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)