


In May and June 2001, the band went on a tour of North-western US, and the western Canada. "Bottles to the Ground" was sent to radio in May 2000.
#Pump up the vallum for free
"Take Two Placebos and Call Me Lame" was posted on Epitaph's website for free download on April 16, 2000. On March 23, 2000, the album was announced for release in June. On November 19, 1999, it was reported that NOFX's next album would be titled Pump Up the Valuum. Other outtakes include "Pods and Gods", "Lower", "Bath of Least Resistance", "San Francisco Fat", and "Pump Up the Valium". We gave it to Epitaph for Punk O Rama 5." Three other songs were mentioned in the Pump Up the Valuum booklet, which appeared elsewhere: "Medio-core" (later in The War on Errorism, 2003) "Insulted By Germans" (later in 7" of the Month #1, 2005, and Wolves In Wolves' Clothing, 2006) and "One Way Ticket to Fuckneckville" (later in Aggropop Now 2003, The War on Errorism, and 7" of the Month #7, 2005). According to Fat Mike, ".the title track 'Pump Up the Valuum' got cut from the album. The band recorded eight more songs that were left off the final version of the album. The words which are spoken during this intro ("This is not a test of the emergency broadcast system") also appear in the Bad Religion song "Los Angeles Is Burning", on their 2004 album "The Empire Strikes First". The song "Dinosaurs Will Die" features a part of the intro skit from The F.U.'s song "Civil Defense" off the album 'Kill For Christ'. Both similarities are addressed in the song's lyrics. As a prank, the intro sounds very similar to "Linoleum" from the band's 1994 album Punk in Drublic, right down to El Hefe warming up his voice before the song begins, while the solo bass part echoes Shadows of Defeat from Good Riddance. The initial song, "And Now for Something Completely Similar," is a parody of the famous saying "And Now for Something Completely Different" from Monty Python skits. The album's title deliberately misspells the trademark " Valium" to avoid a lawsuit, similar to the one The Melvins faced for their album Lysol.
