Genre: Punk Rock
Country: USA
No Use For a Name was formed in 1986 by longtime friends Dodge, Papoutsis and Koff. The early rehearsals of the band had taken place at the Koff family house in Sunnyvale, where they also came up with the name for the band. During this era, the band was fronted by Papoutsis’ friend John Meyer. Initially a four piece, it later expanded to a six piece, adding as a co-vocalist Ramon Gras and a second guitarist Doug Judd. The band experienced many line up changes during this period. In 1987, Dodge left to play in another Bay Area punk band, Stikky, while in summer that year, both Meyer and Judd left the band with Tony Sly replacing Judd on guitar. This line-up first appeared on Maximum RocknRoll’s 1987 Turn it Around compilation, with the song «Gang Way». In 1988, Gras fell out with the rest of the band and left before an important show at Gilman and a live appearance on the KFJC radio show. In a tight spot, the band asked the former guitarist Dodge, who before the formation of No Use had sung in other local bands, to rejoin as vocalist, which he agreed. This line-up of the band recorded two EPs; No Use For a Name on Woodpecker Records and Let ’em Out on Slap A Ham Records. In 1989, Dodge left again which allowed Sly to take over vocals and songwriting.
NUFAN’s first album, Incognito, was released in 1990 by New Red Archives. It was the only album by the band recorded as a trio. In 1991, Dodge rejoined on second guitar and they released their second album, Don’t Miss the Train, in 1992 before signing up with Fat Mike’s label Fat Wreck Chords in 1993. In late 1992, Dodge left the line-up, and was replaced by the guitarist Robin Pfefer, who took over on lead guitar so that Sly could step down to rhythm and concentrate on singing. No Use for a Name also released their first record on Fat Wreck Chords that year, The Daily Grind (EP), which turned out to be highly successful.
Ed Gregor replaced Pfefer on lead guitar soon after the release of The Daily Grind. In 1995, after the release of Leche Con Carne, their third full-length album, Chris Shiflett and Matt Riddle joined the band to play guitar and bass guitar, replacing Gregor and Papoutsis respectively. With the punk music breakthrough in 1994, No Use for a Name received a larger audience after releasing this album, thanks to their video for the song «Soulmate» which was played on the MTV show 120 Minutes. This was the first video from Fat Wreck Chords to appear on MTV. In 1997, after the success of Making Friends, the band toured the U.S., Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan. After releasing More Betterness!, Shiflett left the band in 1999 to join the successful Foo Fighters, being replaced by Dave Nassie. Two years later, the band released a live album, Live in a Dive: No Use for a Name on Fat Wreck Chords and, in 2002, No Use For A Name released its sixth studio album, Hard Rock Bottom.
The band released its eighth full-length studio album, Keep Them Confused, on June 14, 2005. It takes a more political position than earlier releases. A greatest hits collection, All the Best Songs, was released on July 10, 2007. A new fourteen song full-length studio album entitled The Feel Good Record of the Year was released on April 1, 2008. In 2009, when promoting the album in Europe, Nassie left the band to join the Bleeding Through. In August 2009, the band announced that Nassie had been replaced by Chris Rest, Lagwagon’s guitarist and founding member of Rich Kids On LSD. In December 2010, Koff told the band that he would need time off from touring to go full time with his snowplow business and he was eventually replaced by a new full-time drummer, Boz Rivera (of King City, Rich Kids On LSD, and Mad Caddies).
Tony Sly died in his sleep on July 31, 2012. Riddle, Rest and Rivera played a tribute performance to Sly at the Envol & Macadam Festival in Quebec City on September 8, 2012, along with the former No Use for a Name members Nassie and Koff. This was intended to be the band’s final performance, with Riddle commenting, «This is the last No Use For A Name show ever. No one wants to do this without Tony.» The band’s final show before Sly’s death had also been in Quebec, at the D-Tox Rockfest in Montebello on June 15, 2012, but they reunited twice more as No Use and Friends, for the Fat Wreck Chords 25th anniversary show in August 2015 and for Groezrock 2016 in Belgium.
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No Use For A Name — 1989 — No Use For A Name (EP)
Year: 1989
Quality: mp3, 128 kbps
Size: 7.14 MB
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01. Now It All
02. You Bug Me
03. Shotgun
04. Looking Through A Window
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No Use For A Name — 1990 — Incognito
Year: 1994
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 90.84 MB
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01. DMV
02. Sign The Bill
03. It Won’t Happen Again
04. Hail To The King
05. Weirdo
06. Truth Hits Everybody
07. Felix
08. Noitall
09. I Detest
10. Puppet Show
11. Record Thieves
12. Power Bitch
13. Death Doesn’t Care (Aus Ed. Only :D)
14. Born Addicted (Live)
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No Use For A Name — 1990 — Let Em Out (EP)
Year: 1990
Quality: mp3, 192 kbps
Size: 14.07 MB
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01. It Wont Happen Here
02. Born To Hate
03. Pacific Bell
04. Record Theives
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No Use For A Name — 1992 — Death Doesn’t Care (EP)
Year: 1992
Quality: mp3, 192 kbps
Size: 14.83 MB
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01. Death Doesn’t Care
02. D.M.V. (Live)
03. Born Addicted (Live)
04. Hail to the King (Live)
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No Use For A Name — 1992 — Don’t Miss The Train
Year: 1991
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 66.49 MB
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01. Born Addicted
02. Thorn In My Side
03. Looney Toon
04. Tollbridge
05. Hole
06. Another Step
07. Don’t Miss The Train
08. Watching
09. Punk Points
10. Tan In A Can
11. Death Doesn’t Care
12. Get Out Of This Town
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No Use For A Name — 1993 — The Daily Grind
Year: 1993
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 50.59 MB
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01. Until It`s Gone
02. What`s His Name?
03. Permanent Rust
04. Biomag
05. Countdown
06. Hazardous to Yourself
07. The Daily Grind
08. Feeding the Fire
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No Use For A Name — 1995 — Leche Con Carne
Year: 1995
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 81.94 MB
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01. Justified Black Eye
02. Couch Boy
03. Soulmate
04. 51 Days
05. Leave It Behind
06. Redemption Song
07. Straight From The Jacket
08. Fields Of Agony
09. Fatal Flu
10. Wood
11. Alone
12. Exit
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No Use For A Name — 1997 — Making Friends
Year: 1997
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 82.14 MB
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01. The Answer Is Still No
02. Invincible
03. Growing Down
04. On The Outside
05. A Postcard Would Be Nice
06. Secret
07. Best Regards
08. Revenge
09. Sidewalk
10. 3 Month Weekend
11. Sitting Duck
12. Fields Of Athenry
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No Use For A Name — 1999 — More Betterness!
Year: 1999
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 102.08 MB
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01. Not Your Savior
02. Life Size Mirror
03. Chasing Rainbows
04. Lies Can’t Pretend
05. Why Doesn’t Anybody Like Me?
06. Sleeping In
07. Fairytale Of New York
08. Pride
09. Always Carrie
10. Let It Slide
11. Six Degrees From Misty
12. Coming Too Close
13. Saddest Song
14. Room 19
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No Use For A Name — 2000 — The New Red Archives Years
Year: 2000
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 86.35 MB
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01. Truth Hits Everybody
02. Noitall
03. I Detest
04. It Won’t Happen Again
05. Puppet Show
06. Thorn in My Side
07. Tollbridge
08. Another Step
09. Don’t Miss the Train
10. Get Out of This Town
11. Death Doesn’t Care
12. DMV [Live]
13. Born Addicted [Live]
14. Hail to the King [Live]
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No Use For A Name — 2001 — Live In A Dive
Year: 2001
Quality: mp3, 192 kbps
Size: 69.16 MB
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01. Intro
02. Invincible
03. Coming Too Close
04. Chasing Rainbows
05. On the Outside
06. Straight from the Jacket
07. Soulmate
08. Not Your Savior
09. Don’t Miss the Train
10. Justified Black Eye
11. Gene and Paul, I Hate You Most of All and Ace, You’re the Ace and Peter
12. Sara Fisher
13. Room 19
14. The Answer Is Still No
15. Martian
16. Hail to the King
17. Feeding the Fire
18. Exit
19. 6 Degrees from Misty
20. Redemption Song
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No Use For A Name — 2002 — Hard Rock Bottom
Year: 2002
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 79.19 MB
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01. Feels Like Home
02. International You Day
03. Pre-Medicated Murder
04. Dumb Reminders
05. Any Number Can Play
06. Friends Of The Enemy
07. Angela
08. Let Me Down
09. This Is A Rebel Song
10. Solitaire
11. Undefeated
12. Insecurity Alert
13. Nailed Shut
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No Use For A Name — 2005 — Keep Them Confused
Year: 2005
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 81.18 MB
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01. Part Two
02. There Will Be Revenge
03. For Fiona
04. Check For A Pulse
05. Divine Let Down
06. Black Box
07. Bullets
08. Failing Is Easier (Part Three)
09. Apparaition
10. It’s Tragic
11. Killing Time
12. Slowly Fading Fast
13. Overdue
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No Use For A Name — 2008 — The Feel Good Record Of The Year
Year: 2008
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 86.50 MB
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01. Biggest Lie
02. I Want To Be Wrong
03. Yours To Destroy
04. Under The Garden
05. Sleeping Between Trucks
06. Domino
07. The Feel Good Song Of The Year
08. The Trumpet Player
09. Night Of The Living Living
10. Ontario
11. Pacific Standard Time
12. The Dregs Of Society
13. Kill The Rich
14. Take It Home
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No Use For A Name — 2020 — Leche Con Carne (25th Anniversary Reissue)
Year: 2020
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 89.94 MB
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01. Justified Black Eye
02. Couch Boy
03. Soulmate
04. 51 Days
05. Leave It Behind
06. Redemption Song
07. Straight From The Jacket
08. Fields of Agony
09. Fatal Flu
10. Wood
11. Alone
12. Exit
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No Use For A Name — 2021 — Rarities Vol.2 (The Originals)
Year: 2021
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 90.98 MB
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01. Sidewalk (Early Version)
02. No Way to Live
03. Justified Black Eye (Early Version)
04. History Defeats
05. Stunt Double
06. Let Me Down (Early Version)
07. Sara Fisher
08. Coming Too Close (Early Version)
09. Any Number Can Play (Demo Version)
10. Dumb Reminders (Demo Version)
11. Friends of the Enemy (Demo Version)
12. International You Day (Demo Version)
13. Nailed Shut (Demo Version)
14. Pre-Medicated Murder (Demo Version)
15. Solitaire (Demo Version)
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