No Use for a Name discography

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

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.

Contents

Studio albums

YearAlbum detailsPeak 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
2427
2005 Keep Them Confused [16] [17]
  • Released: June 14, 2005
  • Label: Fat Wreck Chords (FAT 691)
  • Formats: LP, CD, download
4331
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

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

Compilation albums

YearAlbum details
2000The 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

YearRelease details
1988No Use for a Name
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Woodpecker
  • Format: 7"
1990Let 'Em Out!
1993Death Doesn't Care [29]
The Daily Grind [30] [31]

Singles

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

Music videos

YearSongDirectorAlbum
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

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

YearRelease detailsTrack(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]
1998The 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)
2005Cake 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

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