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No Use for a Name - Making Friends Audio CD

A fair review of the No Use for a Name "Making Friends" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all No Use for a Name reviews here, or go back to the No Use for a Name tabs.

No Use for a Name Band: No Use for a Name
Title: Making Friends
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Release Date: 1997-08-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Answer Is Still No 2: Invincible 3: Growing Down 4: On the Outside 5: Postcard Would Be Nice 6: Secret 7: Best Regards 8: Revenge 9: Sidewalk 10: 3 Month Weekend 11: Sitting Duck 12: Fields of Athenry

Making Reviews
The CD starts off with two great songs in a row, "Invincible" being my all-time favorite No Use song ever made. This is a pretty average album from a great band. The rest kind of go down-hill. I like "Secret", also, but the rest of the album feels like it was made just to put out an album. It all blends together and sounds like one big, three-chord song. The lyrics are kind of weak and the songs are either too short with too little, or too long and make you get tired of them and change them like old, dirty undies. Three stars for an okay album. Good to get if you're big on No Use, otherwise skip it. And if you're thinking of just getting into them, pick up "Leche Con Carne" or "Don't Miss the Train".


No use for a title (Didn't see that coming...)
The first 6 songs are excellent, "Invincible" being my favorite No Use song ever written, produced, and published. This is a pretty good CD. After that it kind of gets old. "On the Outside" is another great track. There is a trend in every single No Use album. . . Can you guess? They say "F*ck" once in every CD, they cover one song on every CD, and they have a girl sing on every CD. Well, maybe they don't cover a song on EVERY CD, but almost. "Leche Con Carne" is their best CD by far, but this one still gets a high score. It's not a bad CD.


Leche sin carne
I would get that album first. This is a good album it has the same feel as Leche con carne but the songs are just a little less memorbale but its still pretty good. Invincible and the answer is still no are awesome to start off the album.


Strong beginning, end
The first four tracks are my favorite, with "Invincible" being one of my Top 100 songs of all time. I really enjoyed this CD, though the last few songs are a bit forgettable. I also don't fully agree with another reviewers opinions of the "Fields of Athenry" cover. I personally love it, and I would put it up with the Dropkick Murphys latest. Yes, I will allow that a punk version of this song will never sound as good as an Irish tenor version. Still, as wrong as it may be, it was this version of the song that opened up the world of paddy punk to me, including such great bands as the Pogues and the Mahones! My only complaint about this CD are the tracks around the end of the album. I have listened to this CD on a regular basis for several years now, but I don't think I could tell you anything about those three or four tracks. They just aren't that memorable.


Alright.
This song is not a Scottish folk song as some people seem to think but it is an Irish rebel song sung at Celtic football(soccer) matches and NUFAN have totally wrecked this amazing song as you need to have a fantastic atmosphere to get the true meaning of this song. I would have given this album more stars if it had NOT included the terrible rendition of Fields of Athenry.

However the rest of the album is quite good. "Best Regards" is amazing.


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