After Joey Cape’s My Records quit, Honest Don’s re-released the Nerf Herder EP rightly entitled “My E.P.” ( it was on My Records, duh!). This EP has a pretty new layout, at least new colors, three bonus tracks and some enhanced video for “The Sportsman Bar”. Nerf Herder really never impressed me that much to tell the truth, I like their poppy punk sound and I like the jokes in their songs, from “Courtney” to “Pantera Fans In Love” and “Lamer Than Lame”, but maybe I guess these four dudes just heard a lot of Weezer songs and they learned the lesson pretty well. They have the fantasy of wrtitng funny lyrics, and maybe they learned this by such bands as The Bloodhound Gang, with whom they also toured. Anyway, this “new” EP is nothing different from the past: they took some songs, plus three bonus as “I Want To Take You Out For Ice Cream”, “Fight For Your Right To Masturbate” and “Nikki Webster”, and threw them on one only record; such songs as “The Sportsman Bar” ( about a bar where everyone gets always drunk), “Love Sandwich” and “I’ve Got A Boner For Christmas” are just fun, there is no doubt about it , and they are catchy and radio friendly too, I’d listen to them for hours. But the song that made me say :”Is this a Vandals song?” is “Bridge Under Troubled Water”: the first part is very similar to The Vandals’ style, and the lyrics, as always, are filled with funny phrases as “when you need a friend blah-blah-blah-blah-blah” or even “Am I drunk enough? Am I stupid enough? Am I lazy enough? Smell a skunk enough?”. The EP has the good thing of having 9 songs, and considering that some bands sell 9 song LP, if you like this band or pop punk in general, you’ll enjoy this.

After the 1999 album “Hot To Meet Girls”, Nerf Herder are back with a new Ep. on Joey Cape’s own record label: My Records. Not for a bad reason this EP is called “My EP”.

Nerf Herder really never impressed me very much. I like their poppy punk sound and I like the jokes in their songs, from “Courtney” to “Pantera Fans In Love” and “Lamer Than Lame”, but I never thought this band is as good as they want people to think: they just heard a lot of Weezer songs and they learned the lesson pretty well. They have the fantasy of writing funny lyrics, and maybe they learned this by such bands as The Bloodhound Gang, with whom they also toured.

Anyway, this new EP is nothing different from the past: they took 6 previously recorded songs (or seven, if you also count the ghost track “Come Back Down”) and threw them on one only record; such songs as “The Sportsman Bar” (about a bar where everyone gets always drunk), “Love Sandwich” and “I’ve Got A Boner For Christmas” are just fun, there is no doubt about it , and they are catchy and radio friendly too, I’d listen to them for hours. But the song that made me say :”Is this a Vandals song?” is “Bridge Under Troubled Water”: the first part is very similar to The Vandals’ style, and the lyric, as always, is filled with funny phrases as “when you need a friend blah-blah-blah-blah-blah” or even “Am I drunk enough? Am I stupid enough? Am I lazy enough? Smell a skunk enough?”.

The EP is very short, you will not even notice to have bought this and have it in your stereo, although the songs are someway funny and catchy. If you like Californian three-chord pop-punk and melodies, I’d say this record is for you, even if Parry Gripp and his Nerf Herder did not invent anything.