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They've Actually Gotten Worse Live! is a live album by punk rock band, NOFX. The album is their second live recording, following their 1995 album I Heard They Suck Live!!
On September 26, 2007, the band posted a bulletin from their MySpace profile with the following regarding the album:
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Ever done something you regret while drunk? I know, I know… so embarrassing right? Ever woken up and rubbed your pounding skull and said, “What did I do last night?” Oh man…you should have seen yourself… first… you got totally blitzed and then… then… this is the best part… YOU RECORDED A LIVE RECORD! That’s right, back in January, NOFX booked 3 nights of talking mixed with the occasional song at Slim’s in San Francisco and recorded a live record. It’s their sloppiest, drunkest, funniest, best sounding recording ever with new versions of old songs, rare songs and they even made sure not to play any songs off their 1995 live album I Heard They Suck Live!!. They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live is scheduled to make the walk of shame into record stores sometime in November. |
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On October 3, 2007 the band released the track listing for the album, which includes many rarities and alternate versions of previously released songs. On November 12, the band released previews of two songs, "Yer Wrong" and "Lori Meyers," for download on their MySpace profile.
[edit] Lyrical Changes
- In "Franco Un-American", Fat Mike replaces "Public Enemy and Reagan Youth" with "The Dead Kennedys and Wasted Youth."
- Also in "Franco Un-American", Fat Mike adds an extra verse over the bridge, directly criticizing George W. Bush. The verse is similar to the verse he sang when the band played the song on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
- In "What's The Matter With Parents Today?", Fat Mike changes the line "having sex publically" to "having sex anally." The line "I thought the apple fell far from the tree" is changed to "The asshole fell far from the tree," and "On the couch, with my Misfits records out" is changed to "On the lawn, with My Chemical Romance on."
- The intro to "Murder the Government" was modified to make disparaging references to Dick Cheney, and Jenna and Barbara Bush, and George Bush.
- In the last part of "The Longest Line" the band sang the intro to Green Day's "Basket Case"
[edit] Reception
The album received generally good reviews that praised the bands humorous performance. However, the album was universally criticized for fading out "The Decline" instead of playing the whole thing. [1][2]
[edit] Track listing
This is the track listing as printed on the disc, but actually on the cover "Instant Crassic" and "See Her Pee" are on changed positions (12/14).
- "Intro/Glass War" – 4:39 (from unreleased/13 Stitches single)
- "You're Wrong" – 2:53 (from Never Trust A Hippy EP)
- "Franco Un-American" – 3:19 (from War On Errorism)
- "Scavenger Type" – 2:50 (from Punk In Drublic)
- "What's the Matter With Parents Today?" – 2:27 (from Pods and Gods/Pump Up The Valuum)
- "The Longest Line" – 2:34 (from The Longest Line EP)
- "New Happy Birthday Song?" – 1:14 (from Surfer (EP))
- "Eat the Meek" – 4:01 (from So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes)
- "Murder the Government" – 1:12 (from Fuck the Kids/So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes)
- "Monosyllabic Girl" – 0:52 (from So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes)
- "I'm Telling Tim" – 1:08 (from Fuck the Kids/So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes)
- "Instant Crassic" – 0:40 (from Wolves in Wolves' Clothing)
- "Can't Get the Stink Out" – 0:50 (from Surfer (EP))
- "See Her Pee" – 0:29 (from Short Music For Short People Comp.)
- "I Wanna Be an Alcoholic" – 0:23 (from Peepshow Video)
- "Fuck the Kids" – 0:20 (from Surfer (EP))
- "Juice Head" – 0:58 (from Surfer (EP))
- "What Now My Love" – 3:35 (from 7" of the Month Club)
- "Lori Meyers" – 3:30 (with Sarah Sandin on vocals) (from Punk in Drublic)
- "We March to the Beat of Indifferent Drum" – 5:40 (from Wolves in Wolves' Clothing)
- "I, Melvin" (with Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly on accordion) – 3:10 (from 7" of the Month Club, October 2005)
- "Green Corn" (from Ribbed) – 2:55
- "Whoops I OD'd" – 3:10 (from War On Errorism)
- "Stickin in My Eye/The Decline [faded out]" – 6:09 (from White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean/The Decline EP)
[edit] Footnotes
