More Betterness!

More Betterness! was released in October 1999. No Use for a Name co-headlined the Fat Tour, with the Mad Caddies, in February and March 2000.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/301/fat-canadians|title=Fat Canadians|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=January 24, 2000|access-date=February 7, 2021}} They embarked on a tour of Australia in June 2000.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/366/no-use-for-koalas|title=No Use for Koalas|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=March 29, 2000|access-date=February 7, 2021}} In November 2001, the band toured Arizona and California with Zero Down, HBA, and Diesel Boy.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/2111/no-use-for-a-national-tour-apparently|title=No Use for a national tour, apparently…|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Heisel, Scott|date=October 17, 2001|access-date=February 11, 2021}}

Exclaim! wrote that the album "has the requisite guitar harmonics and occasional thrashing drum part, but mostly it is a pop record along the lines of Blink 182."{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/no_use_for_name-more_betterness|title=No Use For A Name More Betterness|website=exclaim.ca}} The Los Angeles Times called More Betterness! "the band’s best-regarded full-length."{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-xpm-2012-aug-01-la-et-ms-no-use-for-a-names-tony-sly-dies-at-41-20120801-story.html|title=No Use for a Name's Tony Sly dies at 41|date=August 1, 2012|website=Los Angeles Times}} CMJ New Music Report called it "intelligent punk rock" and a "refreshing change of pace."{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gt6mHyi96oC&q=More+Betterness%21+no+use+for+a+name&pg=PA24|title=Reviews|work=CMJ New Music Report|date=October 18, 1999|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.|via=Google Books}} The Washington Post called the album "energetic," but noted that all the songs "tend to sound the same."{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/10/01/dance-hall-crashers-purr-pink-38/9f20fb9d-72c8-482e-84d5-cb33046fcaa1/|title=DANCE HALL CRASHERS|first=Mark|last=Jenkins|date=October 1, 1999|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}

All songs written by Tony Sly, except where noted.

1. "Not Your Savior" – 3:45
2. "Life Size Mirror" – 3:10
3. "Chasing Rainbows" – 2:49
4. "Lies Can't Pretend" – 2:48
5. "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" – 3:09
6. "Sleeping In" – 3:06
7. "Fairytale of New York" (Jem Finer, Shane MacGowan) – 4:04
8. "Pride" – 3:06
9. "Always Carrie" – 2:46
10. "Let It Slide" – 2:15
11. "Six Degrees from Misty" – 2:39
12. "Coming Too Close" – 3:18
13. "Saddest Song" – 4:00
14. "Room 19" – 3:20

No Use for a Name

• Tony Sly - vocals and guitar
• Chris Shiflett – guitar
• Matt Riddle – bass
• Rory Koff – drums

Additional musicians

• Cinder Block - backing vocals on "Fairytale of New York"

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