Synopsis
NOFX perform "Leave It Alone" in a loose, irreverent 1990s punk video built around the band's energetic presence rather than a conventional storyline. The clip mixes performance footage with playful visual interruptions and a deliberately unpolished atmosphere, matching the song's sarcastic rejection of conformity and outside pressure. Its casual, anti-glamour presentation reflects the band's underground identity at the height of the 1990s punk revival.
Factoids & Trivia
- "Leave It Alone" was released in 1994 on NOFX's fifth studio album, "Punk in Drublic."
- The video is the only music video associated with "Punk in Drublic." It was made in 1994 and is commonly listed as a 1994 production, although the single was also issued in 1995.
- NOFX and Epitaph Records chose not to submit the video to MTV. Fat Mike later explained that the band did not want to join what it viewed as the commercial "punk wave," especially after MTV had overlooked NOFX earlier in its career.
- The decision became part of NOFX's anti-mainstream identity. The band did not make another official music video for roughly twelve years.
- The clip was later circulated through NOFX's home-video releases, including "Ten Years of Fuckin' Up," and appeared on the Epitaph compilation DVD "Punk-O-Rama: The Videos, Volume 1."
- Despite the lack of MTV exposure, "Leave It Alone" received radio play, including airplay on influential alternative station KROQ in Los Angeles.