Nomeansno : C/D/S/D

the lyrics are often extremely juvenile, but the tunes are killer.

the message board on nomeansno website has tons of threads asking about what the lyrics in certain songs are supposed to mean. really?

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there are definitely two sides to NMN: there are songs informed by the World's Worst Dirty Jokes and songs informed by Heidigger.

new EP rocks.

ok so i just stumbled across the band Two Pin Din , which is the drummer from Dog Faced Hermans and that other singing guy that isnt one of the wright brothers (1983-1991) in nomeansno and oh man does it scratch that nomeansno itch!

http://www.twopindin.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWkSZ3nac0k

ha i meant to actually mention their names but got caught up in my sentence, Andy Kerr is former nmn and wilf plum is the dog faced hermans dude

keep expecting kerr to blurt out "come along ! and bring your juke box money !"
"he was in a jam / he was in a giant clam !"
etc

classic.

Two Pin Din are the Pomplamoose of a much better universe.

http://www.burningtoken.com/bands/nomeansno/

West Coast tour, get on it:

http://www.nomeanswhatever.com/tour.html

There's a UK tour in May/June too, don't know the details but it looks like they're playing quite a few locations.

so excited! especially since they had major technical problems at their last two bay area shows, and it affected their set. although all was made right when they started their encore on night 2 with "now."

New interview with John Wright

http://thequietus.com/articles/12566-nomeansno-john-wright-interview

I did an e-mailer with Tom a couple of weeks ago, too: http://thumped.com/interviews/we-have-never-entertained-long-term-goals-an-interview-with-nomeansno.html

Hey thanks!

their show in Bristol a fortnight ago was probably my favourite gig of 2013 this far. just did not let up

I wish I'd known about that

Extremely terse message here:

https://www.facebook.com/wrongrecords/posts/10153596446204517

NOMEANSNO HAS SPLIT

Nothing more than this. (Has banana split? Has split release coming soon? Has really split?)

Ah, the answer was closest to the first. The actual first comment from them is:

...a milkshake at the local diner because sharing is caring.

lol

breaking up would be very out-of-character for them

part of me wonders if J0hn Ch3dsey posted that, he handles a lot of their PR stuff (or did, at least), and just made an FB post cackling about the gullibility of NMN fans on his FB page

yep, it was him. he's having a helluva laugh over it at the moment

back on topic, man was Wrong a great fucking album. I think that was my favorite of theirs.

Ah man, but what a hell of a run:

https://www.facebook.com/wrongrecords/posts/10155280797764517

Greetings everybody,John here from NMN and with a heavy heart I must announce the retirement of No Means No.A hiatus became a long hiatus and a lingering hiatus has become a permanent one. Thirty-five years and countless miles, a couple thousand shows and many more beers, a bunch of tunes and sweaty hoards of great fans, I can't say thanks enough to everyone.I will continue to post here on our page about the Robots and future projects if and when they happen. Hoping to have the debut Compressorhead album out by next march so you have not heard the last of things yet.So cheers everyone! Raise a glass....xo

That's a bummer but, heck yeah, they went out never having been anything but great. Not many bands can say that.

Goddamn! Over the last decade or so I've become convinced they're the greatest rock band this dumb-ass country has yet produced. Glad I got to see 'em live.

It took me 13 years between being introduced to them via Live and Cuddly to finally being in the right city at the right time to see them live in 2006. Really really glad I did.

Kind of expected but I'm still saddened by this. RIP one of the best bass tones ever.

Yeah very glad I saw them back in 2005, IIRC, up in Vancouver. (I'm sure a show on Vancouver Island would have been even more appropriate but I'll take that regardless -- seeing them in front of a hometown crowd as such was a hell of a thing.)

05 was probably the same tour I saw... Just destroyed the club, unreal

I was late to them due a general Alternative Tentacles allergy, I knew a bunch of people who were into them and heard the records here & there but it didn't really click for me until the early '00s, but man what a great band.

I saw that on their message board a few months ago it was mentioned they get offers all the time from festivals to play this or that record all the way through but they don't have any interest in doing that.

Good on them. Although I have to admit I'd go see the shit out of them playing Wrong all the way through.

^^I don't peg them as reunion tour types but I'd love that. Saw them on the Ausfahrt tour, what a blast.

They toured Europe all the time and they went out of their way to come to Ireland so many times; I only saw them on three occasions (2000, 2008? and 2013) but each was a great show. (And I'm not even counting the Hanson Brothers shows that I've never seen.)

And next on the Brexit playlist is 'Theresa, Give Me that Knife' off the 2004 Nomeansno album 'The People's Choice'

I saw them one sweltering summer night in 1990, in a humid, sticky basement called the Speedboat Gallery in St. Paul. It was glorious.

Wrong is def my favorite by far (2004 remaster is on Bandcamp), but enjoyed getting reacquainted with most of their catalog. Wouldn't have minded seeing them again, but it would have seemed weird to see them headline Riot Fest or something, as they seemed made for tight, claustrophobic venues.

The CD version of Why Do They Call Me Mr Happy? is in my top five albums of all time. I like Wrong as well but I just feel that WDTCMMH? is for the ages.

I feel that way about the CD version of Worldhood

Wrong is 30 years old in 2019. Still sounds as fresh to me as the day it came out.

I remember Peel playing all of the first side on his show once

I've said this before but Wrong sounds so sharp and ahead of its time compared to basically anything else from the time thanks to its super dry, tight production

the main actual issue I have with spotify is that nomeansno aren't on it (despite apparently being on tidal and apple music?)

this was the greatest punk band of all time

hell yeah

"disappear" my jam right now
Qui tickle the same spot for me, somehow

the quadruple-time bit of "my politics" >>>>>

Played the 0+2=1 cd in the car today! Not their best overall but a sentimental favorite as it was the first album of theirs I bought

I think I only own 0+2=1 on LP and [/i]Dance...[/i] on CD, as well as the sealed Live and Cuddly I thrifted a few months back. their stuff is hard to find even in Canada!