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Hard Rock Bottom

No Use for a Name - Hard Rock Bottom Audio CD

A fair review of the No Use for a Name "Hard Rock Bottom" 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.

Band: No Use for a Name
Title: Hard Rock Bottom
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Release Date: 2002-06-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Feels Like Home 2: Internation You Day 3: Pre-Medicated Murder 4: Dumb Reminders 5: Any Number Can Play 6: Friends Of The Enemy 7: Angela 8: Let Me Down 9: This Is a Rebel Song 10: Solitaire 11: Undefeated 12: Insecurity Alert 13: Nailed Shut

Not Digging It. At All.

Gone are subjects like domestic abuse, AIDS, war, and other issues that allow me to tolerate "love" songs. Well I'm one of those over thirty dudes who thinks this album is not up to NUFAN standards. This is just about all love songs, and reeks of an attempt to lure fans of bands like A Simple Plan, i. e. bands that longtime fans of NUFAN tend to despise. It's almost as if they went out of their way to lose me as a fan.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, bands are allowed to do what they want, write what they want, play what they want, but I don't have to like it.

There's just no bite to this. To be fair, it doesn't stray too far from the NUFAN sound musically (it's watered down, but you can tell it's them), but lyrically and subject-wise, this could have been written by 15 year olds. .

Amazing!!
From the onslaught of records being released this year by established bands and largely in the melodic punk field, there is alot coming out (Strung out, Whippersnapper, No use for a name, Face to face, Lagwagon just concerning the staple bands of fat records and melodic punk). Finally, and where I least expected it to come from. That doesn't even take into account the records in the fall and outside melodic punk (get up kids, alkaline trio, ALL/DESCENDENTS, Jets to brazil, everyone is releasing something this year).

Through the haze of records, I was optimistic to be letdown by face to face, and strung out. But finally. Hard rock bottom is the first new record by the Fat roster to actually surpass the record that came out before it. It takes the good parts of More betterness and loses the fat. It should have been called more aptly "Most bestest". I was not expecting it to be any good, and was expecting to be let down.

It starts with a quick and brooding slow tune "Feels like Home", before it starts with the ROCK. "International you day" moves in with the high hat beat, and kicks into gear with the line "I'm sorry it took so long to write this song but I gave up" before the head starts bobbing and you realize NUFAN has not let you down, they have not missed your birthday for the 5th time because they're "working late" with that young secretary who doesnt know the duties of a full workload and 3 kids who want to know why their daddy has lipstick stains. No, NUFAN bought you a pony, killed it, cooked it, and fed it to your new pony they bought the next day because now you have a cannibal pony. YEAH!

"Let me down" which was on the last fat comp. sounds much much better. The production sounds reminiscent of "More betterness" but the drums sound beefier, and the vocals are PERFECT. The song "This is a rebel song" which I believe is a cover, has one of the Dance hall Crasher singers singing alone trading vocals with tony. A friend of mine who loves DHC couldn't recognize her voice by itself, and it sounds amazing.

If you doubt, give a listen to "Solitaire"and tell me they haven't put out the best album since Leche con carne. "Insecurity Alert" appeared to me to have been inspired by the 9/11 attacks. Slowly waltzing in with audio bits and a slowly stalking bass line into the hitting muted guitar verse. I have never heard the use of sirens sweeping into a song to such an effect toward the songs end, it'll push all the buttons and emotionally get the blood flowing both to the heart and the mind.

Happily suprised, Can't wait to get it on vinyl. Buy it, buy it, buy it. Best Fat wreck release this year, hands down. I dont care if FAT puts out Me first and the gimme gimmes, nothing will top this. Consistent, not one bad song, utterly listenable all thr way through. If you're a NUFAN fan, be ready. If you're not, you will be.
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WHOOOUUUHH!!!!
Must have listened to it at least 100 times!!! Together with More Betterness this album is one of the best melodic hard-core stuff I've ever heard. Now three years that it was released and you know what? I still listen to it with the same pleasure. You can't help yourself singing along. A must-have. Buy it!!!!.

Nomadic Prognostication at its Finest
Allow me to divine the future . . I'd bet the farm that those members of No Use For a Names's fan base claiming this collection of wicked cuts are too poppy and soft, are no older than 16. Trust me, I know . . . since I happen to be one of those 30-something punks that remembers DESPISING anything that wasn't butthole raw when I was that age. Anyhoo . . . I digress. . . .

If you do not like a little potpourri with your punk, this album is NOT for you; since "Hard Rock Bottom" is a masterpiece of technical brilliance and simply would not please the hard-core punks on the fringe.

But if you, like myself, appreciate an impecably diverse collection of music that runs the gamut, this album will cut your f***ing face off! I'm serious! These tracks are a better sexual enhancer than Viagra . . . guaranteed to allow you to sport wood for at least 22 hours a day. It's a regular blue-ball bonanza, says I.

Can you say "Pop-Punk"?
No Use for a Name. . What happened? I like almost every song on this CD. There are a few exceptions like "Any Number Can Play", but overall, it's a great CD. My only problem with the CD is that it is hugely pop and super polished. I seen it coming with "More Betterness", but I never thought they'd go so far into Blink-41/Simple-Found Glory territory. "International You Day" is hardcore pop-punk drama-about-a-girl, but not bad, and "Dumb Reminders" is the traditional filler about a missing girl song. Girls! GIRLS! We all know they cheat, lie, steal, and move, but we have crappy bands to sing about them like Blink 182 and Simple Plan. No Use should stick to politics, apartments, and fields of stuff. Like agony. .

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