| First Ditch Effort | ||||
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| Released | October 7, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2016 | |||
| Genre | Hardcore punk [1] [2] | |||
| Length | 33:07 | |||
| Label | Fat Wreck Chords | |||
| Producer | Cameron Webb, Fat Mike | |||
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First Ditch Effort is the thirteenth studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX, released on October 7, 2016.
"Six Years on Dope" was the first song released off of the album to the Fat Wreck Chords YouTube page on July 20, 2016. "Oxy Moronic" was released to radio on September 14, 2016. [3] First Ditch Effort was released on October 7. [4] [5] [6] The span of four years between Self Entitled (2012) and First Ditch Effort was longest gap between two NOFX studio albums up to this point, and it also marked the first time since The War on Errorism (2003) that the band had not worked with Bill Stevenson; instead, the album was produced by Cameron Webb.
The song "I'm So Sorry, Tony" is a tribute to late No Use for a Name frontman Tony Sly.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Six Years on Dope" | 1:32 |
| 2. | "Happy Father's Day" | 1:14 |
| 3. | "Sid and Nancy" | 2:22 |
| 4. | "California Drought" | 3:14 |
| 5. | "Oxy Moronic" | 3:56 |
| 6. | "I Don't Like Me Anymore" | 2:30 |
| 7. | "I'm a Transvest-lite" | 2:16 |
| 8. | "Ditch Effort" | 1:47 |
| 9. | "Dead Beat Mom" | 2:18 |
| 10. | "Bye Bye Biopsy Girl" | 2:00 |
| 11. | "It Ain't Lonely at the Bottom" | 1:33 |
| 12. | "I'm So Sorry Tony" | 3:18 |
| 13. | "Generation Z" | 5:07 |
| Total length: | 33:07 | |
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| Chart (2016) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] | 27 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] | 28 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] | 116 |
| Canadian Albums (Billboard) [11] | 23 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [12] | 16 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [13] | 33 |
| US Billboard 200 [14] | 54 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) [15] | 12 |
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