No Use for a Name discography

The discography of No Use for a Name, a punk rock band active from 1987 to 2012, consists of eight studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, four EPs, one single, and seven music videos.

No Use for a Name discography
No Use for a Name in 2012
Studio albums8
Live albums1
Compilation albums4
Music videos7
EPs4
Singles1
Other appearances13

Studio albums edit

Year Album details Peak chart positions
US
Independent
[1][2]
Heatseekers
[1][3]
1990 Incognito[4][5]
  • Released: November 16, 1990
  • Label: New Red Archives (NRA 20)
  • Formats: CD, download
1992 Don't Miss the Train[6][7]
  • Released: October 23, 1992
  • Label: New Red Archives (NRA 32)
  • Formats: CD, download
1995 ¡Leche con Carne![8][9]
  • Released: February 15, 1995
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 522)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
1997 Making Friends[10][11]
  • Released: August 19, 1997
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 557)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
1999 More Betterness![12][13]
  • Released: October 5, 1999
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 593)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
2002 Hard Rock Bottom[14][15]
  • Released: June 18, 2002
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 639)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
24 27
2005 Keep Them Confused[16][17]
  • Released: June 14, 2005
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 691)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
43 31
2008 The Feel Good Record of the Year[18][19]
  • Released: April 1, 2008
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 730)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
19
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums edit

Year Album details Peak chart positions
US
Independent
[1][2]
2001 Live in a Dive[20][21]
  • Released: September 11, 2001
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 622)
  • Format: LP, CD, download
35

Compilation albums edit

Year Album details
2000 The NRA Years[22]
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Golf
  • Format: CD
2007 All the Best Songs[23][24]
  • Released: July 10, 2007
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 690)
  • Format: CD, download
  • Reissued February 12, 2016 as a double LP, CD, and download with an altered track list and new cover art (FAT 952)[25]
2017 Rarities Vol. I: The Covers[26][27]
2021 Rarities Vol. 2: The Originals[28]

EPs edit

Year Release details
1988 No Use for a Name
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Woodpecker
  • Format: 7"
1990 Let 'Em Out!
1993 Death Doesn't Care[29]
The Daily Grind[30][31]
  • Released: May 31, 1993
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 507)
  • Format: CD, EP, download

Singles edit

Year Release details
1996 No Use for a Name / Soda
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Sessions
  • Format:

Music videos edit

Year Song Director Album
1995 "Soulmate"[32] ¡Leche con Carne!
1999 "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?"[33] More Betterness!
2002 "Dumb Reminders"[34] Hard Rock Bottom
2005 "This Ain't No Way to Live"[35] Cake Boy soundtrack
"For Fiona" Keep Them Confused
2008 "Biggest Lie"[36] The Feel Good Record of the Year
"Pacific Standard Time"[37]

Other appearances edit

The following No Use for a Name songs were released on compilation albums, soundtracks, and other releases.

Year Release details Track(s)
1987 Turn It Around!
  • "Gang Way"
1989 The Thing That Ate Floyd
  • "What!?!"
1995 Hardcore Breakout USA Volume 2[38]
  • "People Suck"
1995 Skaters Gear - 6[39]
  • Released: Dec. 12, 1995
  • Label: J!mco Records
  • Format: CD
  • "People Suck"
  • "Born Addicted"
1997 Before You Were Punk[40]
  • Released: March 11, 1997
  • Label: Vagrant (VR 330)
  • Format: CD
The Punk, The Bad & The Ugly[41]
  • "Thorn In My Side"
Show & Tell: A Stormy Remembrance Of TV Theme Songs[42]
  • Released: May 6, 1997
  • Label: Which?
  • Format: CD
  • "Laverne and Shirley (Making Our Dreams Come True)"[43]
1998 The Show soundtrack[44]
  • Released: January 14, 1998
  • Label: Theologian (T-67)
  • Format: CD
  • "I've Heard" (originally performed by Dag Nasty)
1999 Short Music for Short People[45][46]
  • "Sara Fisher"
Return of the Read Menace[47][48]
  • "Hybrid Moments" (originally performed by the Misfits)
Mighty Attack[49]
  • Released: September 23, 1999
  • Label: Flavour Records
  • Format: CD
  • "DMV"
  • "Born Addicted"
  • "Loony Tune"
2001 Live Fat, Die Young[50][51]
  • Released: March 6, 2001
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 613)
  • Format: CD, LP
  • "Let Me Down" (early version)
Warped Tour 2001 Tour Compilation[52][53]
  • Released: June 19, 2001
  • Label: SideOneDummy (SD 71227)
  • Format: CD
2004 Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2[54][55]
  • Released: August 10, 2004
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 677)
  • Format: CD
  • "Fields of Agony" (acoustic)
2005 Cake Boy soundtrack[56]
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: Kung Fu
  • Format: CD
  • "This Ain't No Way to Live"
  • "Selwyn's Got a Problem"
  • "Fatal Flu" (acoustic)
  • "1945" (originally performed by Social Distortion)
  • "Coming Too Close" (acoustic)
2006 Forever Free[57]
  • Released: January 24, 2006
  • Label: Baseline Music Co.
  • Format: CD
2009 Wrecktrospective[58][59]
  • Released: December 8, 2009
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 700)
  • Format: CD, download
  • "Always Carrie" (demo)
2010 Harder, Fatter + Louder![60][61]
  • Released: November 23, 2010
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 762)
  • Format: LP, CD, download

References edit

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