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

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| Alternative Press | 7/10 |
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 were 47 songs on the CD version, and all the songs easily fit onto one CD.
The band built up a list of songs that did not make it onto any of their albums, or had previously appeared on compilation albums, vinyl singles, or b-sides. Many of these had been dropped originally because of Fat Mike's tendency to not release albums that ran for too long.
The first CD contained a collection of songs spanning almost the entirety of the band's career. The oldest track was from the band's first demo, and the newest was recorded for this album.
The second CD contained the EPs Fuck the Kids and Surfer, each of which contained 13 or so very short songs that were previously available only on 7" vinyl. Fat Mike chose to leave one song off of each of the EPs when compiling this CD, "just to annoy people a bit".
The vinyl release of the album was renamed to 22 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records, but included only the first 21 tracks from the first CD, because of all of the second CD was already available on the two vinyl EPs.

## Song information

| Song | Recorded | Originally appeared on | Notes |
| Counting Sheep (CD disc one and vinyl release) ||||
| "Pimps and Hookers" | 2002 | N/A | The only track exclusive to this release. |
| "All of Me" | 1996 | All of Me 7" and Physical Fatness compilation album | A cover of a Tin Pan Alley standard whose best-known versions are by Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Willie Nelson. An outtake from the So Long and Thanks For All the Shoes recording sessions. |
| "We Threw Gasoline on the Fire and Now We Have Stumps for Arms and No Eyebrows" | 1997 | Punk-O-Rama Vol. 3 compilation album | |
| "Drugs Are Good" | 1994 | HOFX EP | An outtake from the Punk in Drublic recording sessions. |
| "Lower" | 2000 | Bottles to the Ground EP | An outtake from the Pump Up the Valuum recording sessions. |
| "Forming" | 1996 | A Small Circle of Friends: Germs (Tribute) compilation album | Originally performed by the Germs. |
| "Electricity" | 1999 | Before You Were Punk 2 compilation album | Originally performed by OMD. An outtake from the Pump Up The Valuum recording sessions. |
| "Lazy" | 1997 | Happy Meals, Volume 2 compilation album | Originally performed by Bracket. An outtake from the So Long and Thanks For All the Shoes recording sessions. |
| "The Plan" | 1998 | Timmy the Turtle 7" and Life in the Fat Lane compilation album | An outtake from the Pump Up The Valuum recording sessions. |
| "Timmy the Turtle" | 1998 | Timmy the Turtle 7" | Features guest vocals by Duncan Redmonds, best known for singing in UK punk band Snuff. An outtake from the So Long and Thanks For All the Shoes recording sessions. |
| "Punk Song" | 1987 | The P.M.R.C. Can Suck on This! EP. | |
| "See Her Pee" | 1999 | Short Music for Short People compilation album | |
| "Zyclone B Bathhouse" | 1999 | Fat Club 7" | An outtake from the Pump Up The Valuum recording sessions. |
| "Last Caress" | 1996 | Violent World compilation album | Originally performed by The Misfits. |
| "Bath of Least Resistance" | 2000 | Punk-O-Rama Vol. 6 compilation album | An outtake from the Pump Up The Valuum recording sessions, also featured on the hit dancing game DDR Ultramix 3. |
| "We Ain't Shit" | 1994 | HOFX EP. | An outtake from the Punk in Drublic recording sessions. |
| "San Francisco Fat" | 2000 | Live Fat, Die Young compilation album | An outtake from the Pump Up the Valuum recording sessions. |
| "Vincent" | 1996 | Survival of the Fattest compilation album | Originally performed by Don McLean. An outtake from the Heavy Petting Zoo recording sessions. |
| "Pump Up the Valium" | 2000 | Punk-O-Rama Vol. 5 compilation album | An outtake from the Pump Up The Valuum recording sessions. It would have been the title track, but it was left off the album in an homage to a similar move that DC punk band Scream did on their first record. |
| "Pods and Gods" | 2000 | Pods and Gods 7" | An outtake from the Pump Up The Valuum recording sessions. |
| "Eat the Meek (dub mix)" | 1998 | Wankin' In The Pit compilation album | Alternate mix of a song that appeared on So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes. |
| "Thalidomide Child" | 1984 | The band's first demo. Also appeared on the Devil Doll Records compilation Pogo, Strut, Slam, Swivel & Mosh. | This is a hidden track, as it is not listed on the outside front cover of the CD. Originally from their demo. |
| Catching Zzz's (CD disc two) ||||
| Tracks 1–13 | 2001 | Surfer EP | The song "Three Shits To The Wind" wasn't included on this disc. |
| Tracks 14–25 | 1996 | Fuck the Kids EP | The song "Stupid Canadians" wasn't included on this disc. |

## Track listing

All tracks are written by Mike Burkett and/or NOFX, except where noted

## Charts

Chart performance for 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records :
| Chart (2002) | Peak position |
| Australian Albums (ARIA) | 26 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) | 57 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 89 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) | 97 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 77 |
| US Billboard 200 | 80 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) | 4 |