★★★★★
With Christmas rapidly approaching, it seems like an appropriate time to revisit an old Yuletide favourite. Nerf Herder's High Voltage Christmas Rock was released in 2000, in between the solid How To Meet Girls album and the patchy My E.P.. The crudely drawn cover, a snowman with an extra carrot that isn't for his nose, perfectly fits the contents: irreverent pop-punk with a festive twist. The back cover proudly proclaims that it was "recorded while drunk", which is easy to believe...
- www.punknews.org
2014-12-20
★★★★★
Had this come out two months ago, it would have been a contender for nu-skool album of the summer. Now it'll have to settle for, well, album of the fall? Ironic, anti-ironic, genius, borderline retarded lyrical hilarity again carries the day from this under-appreciated Santa Barbara four-piece who will forever hold a place in my heart for having written the theme to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whether one-handed-juggling pop culture bean bags like Jenna Bush and Mr...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Sound: I bought this album at my local record store. I had not heard any song off of it when I bought it and I had only heard one Nerf Herder song prior to that. The one song I had heard had such an impression on me that I laid down the $20. I was very impressed when I got in the car and popped it in. The sound was kind of like the early years of Chixdiggit. It's more melodic punk than I'm used to (it sounds like it could be on MTV) but it is kind of different all the same...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Nerf Herder is another in the long line of pop-punk bands beating a dead horse. They are partaking in a genre that seems to have had every last ounce of life sucked out of it, yet somehow it's still there - alive and kicking. That's not to say that the genre is unenjoyable. Every once in awhile a band will bring a new twist or, at the least, some spunk or edge to the style, but for the most part it offers very little in terms of originality...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Nerf Herder hopes that the market for young boys that need to hear songs about poop and jerking-off jokes is still out there with the re-release of My EP, previously released on My Records (Lagwagon singer Joey Cape's label) with re-recorded material and bonus tracks. What boggles my mind is not that somebody would release this (because people release crap all the time) its that Honest Don's felt the need to re-release this. There's that much demand for it...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
No text for this review; see http://robertchristgau.com/xg/bk-cg90/grades-90s.php.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
In the world of pop-punk, Nerf Herder holds the place of the Three Stooges.
While the Marx Brothers were sly enough to hint at an underlying
intelligence,
the Stooges were content to shoot for the lowest common denominator.
Unfortunately,
How to Meet Girls is Shemp-era Stooges, in that it simply rehashes earlier
work
with new scenes. When the most entertaining part of an album are the song
titles
("Pantera Fans in Love"), you're in trouble...
- www.splendidezine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
There's perverse irony in the history of Nerf Herder: Perhaps the most calculatedly disposable band in modern-day rock history, it's one of the few to achieve immortality, recording the unmistakable theme song to TV's slavishly adored Buffy The Vampire Slayer. There's nothing wrong with the song that made it famousit's certainly better than the momentary guilty pleasure "Van Halen," the only other song to put Nerf Herder on the mapbut that's because it's an instrumental. Everything else in t...
- www.avclub.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
With the group's original lineup reunited for the first time since their self-titled debut, nerd rockers Nerf Herder take a stroll down memory lane on their fourth disc, aptly titled IV. Songs like "Golfshirt, Pt. 2" and "Dianalee" toss out references to their older material, still pining after the same girls, years after the fact. Remaining hung up on your past in an unhealthy way seems to be the recurring theme of IV...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
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