Surfer is a 2001 EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by NOFX

NOFX

NOFX is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California .The band was formed in 1983 by vocalist/bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin. Drummer Erik Sandin joined NOFX shortly after. In 1991 El Hefe joined to play lead guitar and trumpet, rounding out the current line-up...

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The record was released on Fat Mike's record label, Fat Wreck Chords

Fat Wreck Chords

Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock. It was started by Fat Mike and his ex-wife, Erin, in 1990....

. The methodology for writing and recording the songs was much the same as the band's Fuck the Kids

Fuck the Kids

Fuck the Kids is a 7" EP by NOFX. All the tracks were recorded in one day over the course of about four hours. Fat Mike had written all the songs, but none of the other band members knew them. Mike would teach the band the song, they would record it, keeping the first take where the band actually...

EP. Fat Mike wrote all of the songs in a limited amount of time, claiming to have only given himself ten minutes to finish each one, and did not teach the songs to the rest of the band until the day of recording. The EP was recorded in two full-day sessions, making it one of the band's fastest-completed EP or album recording, second to Fuck the Kids

Fuck the Kids

Fuck the Kids is a 7" EP by NOFX. All the tracks were recorded in one day over the course of about four hours. Fat Mike had written all the songs, but none of the other band members knew them. Mike would teach the band the song, they would record it, keeping the first take where the band actually...

which was recorded and mixed in a day and a half.

The EP was later included on the second disc of 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records

45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records

45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records is a double album released in 2002 by NOFX. There are actually 47 songs on the CD version, and all the songs could easily fit onto one CD....

, but with one track omitted ("Three Shits to the Wind") in order to preserve something unique about the original 7" release.

The album cover and lyric sheet parody Bad Religion

Bad Religion

Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1979. Their current line-up consists of Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz , Jay Bentley , Greg Hetson , Brian Baker and Brooks Wackerman . Gurewitz is also the founder of the label Epitaph Records, which has released almost all of the...

's 1988 record Suffer

Suffer (album)

Suffer is the third album by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on the Californian independent record label Epitaph Records on September 8, 1988. It was the first album that was both released and distributed by the label...

. Another reference to Suffer is etched into the vinyl: "THE MASSES OF HUMANITY HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO SURF," as opposed to ""THE MASSES OF HUMANITY HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO SUFFER" which is etched on the Bad Religion album. The infamous artwork of the lyrics being written on a wall was also replicated for Surfer.

The record is 13 minutes in length. The first 500 copies were pressed on blue vinyl, while subsequent pressings were released on black vinyl.

Track listing

Side A

1. "Fun Things to Fuck (If You're a Winner)"
2. "Juice Head"
3. "Three on Speed"
4. "New Happy Birthday Song"
5. "Talking 'Bout Yo Momma"
6. "Party Enema"
7. "Can't Get the Stink Out"

Side B

1. "Go to Work Wasted"
2. "Fuck da Kids"
3. "Whoa on the Whoas"
4. "Three Shits to the Wind"
5. "Puke on Cops"
6. "I Gotta Pee"
7. "Totally Fucked"

External links

• Discogs listing