Feb 15, 2025

Leche con Carne


¡Leche Con Carne!
No Use For A Name (1995)
The third album from the Sunnyvale, California skate punk band No Use For A Name was released thirty years ago today.  It was recorded with the late Tony Sly on vocals and guitar with Ed Gregor on guitar, Steve Papoutsis on bass, and Rory Koff on drums.


This album will always hold a special place in my heart because No Use For A Name was the first band that I ever got to see perform live in concert.  They were the first opening act for The Offspring in their tour on February and March of 1995, and I got to see them at the West Palm Beach Auditorium on March 11th of that year.  Leche Con Carne was released less than a month before the show, so the songs that they played that night were from this album.  Here is my favorite song that they played that night:
Monday morning you woke up crying
The outcome of a stupid line
Said by some punkass on the street 
It wasn't me, it wasn't you
It wasn't anybody you knew
Is it your old friend insecurity?
The one companion that stuck by your side since you were born

Tuesday night you were in a fight
The same old argument black and white
It's something that's eating you inside 
It's not the food, it's not the booze
It isn't anything consumed
So is it becoming a problem you can't hide?
And all those times you thought that you were wrong, you were right

The devil on your shoulder gives you strength in paranoia
The countless times you call a few
Your best friend 'til the end of time
They'll always be there by your side
Solidify conditions you've abused
What that means you'll never have a clue 
 
More than just a lifelong friend
No social life, I guess we can pretend
It's not like I care but anyway
You always wanna leave you never wanna stay
'Cause you think if you drink too much
Then you will lose it
You'll drink your security away
The one companion that stuck by your side since you were born

The little voice inside your head
Annoying and confusing
That somehow tells you what to do
Socially you've lost your mind
And basically you're out of time
You try to build so much it breaks on you
What that means you'll never have a clue