No. In defense of No Use For A Name, their ability to craft catchy, harmony-driven punk songs, that also have some teeth to them is special. This is fun, isn't it supposed to be? While the formula may vary slightly with each NUFAN release, in the end, aren't you glad you listened to the record? I am. Vocal stylings change slightly, production changes slightly, it's maybe a little faster or less faster, yeah so? I find myself, with each release, that I go back and listen to earlier releases and find big differences and also some similarities. Listen to "The Feel Good Record of the Year" and then listen to "Leche Con Carne", it's amazing the NUFAN pattern is there, but it's also so very dissimilar. This may well be the one record that comes closest to Leche, in terms of it's power and raw emotion. No need to try to recreate the masterpiece that was Leche, so on "The Feel Good Record of the Year" No Use For A Name use tempo changes to migrate the user from hyper-fast punk to mid-paced melodic rock. Case in point, "Pacific Standard Time". It starts with a slow, but driving guitar line, leads to a "bouncy" mid paced punk section (sorry about the bouncy, it just seems to work) then it launches into an all out harmonic assault of uptempo NUFAN classic leche punk. Sure, we have heard NUFAN before, but not like this! If you are already a fan, enough said, you probably have this record and are enjoying it. If new to NUFAN, this is a good introduction to a legendary punk band that has the staying power to continue putting out great punk rock!
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