Heaving Petting Zoo

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Heaving Petting Zoo album cover
Album Information
  • Artist: NOFX (See All Albums by NOFX)
  • Date Released: Jan 29, 2008

  • Genre: Alternative/Punk, Style: Commercial Alternative, Alternative

  • Label: Epitaph

Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 35:05

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Gay and Retarded

NorthernPilot

The title does note describe this gem of an album....it describes e-music's bastardization of the tilte. Great album though with thought provoking angst and riffs that wold make any normal persons fingers fall off. Fool me once e-music....shame on you....Fool me twice NOFX....you don't geeet fooled again. Top Notch album.

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one of their best

bob_diamond

This album, aside from having one of the creepiest covers of all time is one of their best. Musically at the top of their game released during the apex of 90's pop punk I love every song on this record.

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The mildly offensive album art — essentially, it’s a play on the album’s title — disguises the fact that NOFX’s punk rock is hardly breaking new ground. Taking the heavy guitar attack of the Sex Pistols and melding it with the us-against-them mentality of mid-’80s American hardcore, NOFX sounds like a conservative punk band with metal leanings. As an expression of adolescent rage, however, Heavy Petting Zoo serves its purpose — it’s basically a barrage of heavy riffs and gut-busting bellowing. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine