No Straight Angles

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No Straight Angles
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Studio album by No Fun at All
Released 1994
Genre Punk rock
Label Burning Heart
No Fun at All chronology
Vision
(1993)
No Straight Angles
(1994)
Out of Bounds
(1995)

No Straight Angles is the first full-length album by punk band No Fun at All, released in 1994.

No Fun at All is a Swedish punk rock band.

Track listing

  1. Believers
  2. Wow and I Say Wow
  3. Strong and Smart
  4. Growing Old, Growing Cold
  5. I Can't Believe It's True
  6. It Won't Be Long
  7. I Am Wrong and I Am Right
  8. Wisdom?
  9. So It Sadly Goes
  10. Beachparty
  11. Evil Worms
  12. Days in the Sun
  13. So Many Times
  14. Nothing I Wouldn't Do
  15. Happy for the First Time
  16. Alcohol †
  17. Don't Be a Pansy †

"Happy for the First Time" contains as a hidden track a new version of their song "What You Say", which originally appeared on the 1993 EP Vision .

"Strong and Smart" was later covered by the Swedish metal band In Flames as a bonus track to their album Clayman .

In Flames Swedish metal band

In Flames are a Swedish heavy metal band, which was formed by guitarist Jesper Strömblad in 1990 in Gothenburg, Sweden. At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, and In Flames are the only remaining bands responsible for developing the genres known as Swedish death metal and melodic death metal.

<i>Clayman</i> 2000 studio album by In Flames

Clayman is the fifth album by Swedish metal band In Flames. The album was released by Nuclear Blast on July 25, 2000. Most of the lyrics deal with depression and internal struggles. The album's cover art is based on Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man drawing.

"Alcohol" is originally a song composed by the hardcore band Gang Green.

Gang Green is a rock band originally from Braintree, Massachusetts. Chris Doherty (guitar), Bill Manley (bass) and Mike Dean (drums) started the band in 1980 and broke up in 1983. Doherty reformed Gang Green the following year, and band experienced numerous lineup changes until its dissolution for the second time in 1992. Doherty has been the band’s only constant member, and has kept Gang Green active from 2005 onwards. The band was influential in the formation of the East Coast hardcore scene and went on to become one of the forerunners of crossover thrash and speed metal in the late 1980s.


† = Exclusive to the 1995 Theologian Records American release. "Don't Be a Pansy" was originally released on a 1994 G-Spot Records compilation CD named "Rock Around The Clock" and on the No Straight Angles Maxi single.

A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an A-side song and a B-side song.


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