Nomeansno : C/D/S/D

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NOMEANSNO-Mama CD (Wrong/WRONG31) $13.50
Finally reissued.
UPC:7 18751 95432 8

NOMEANSNO-Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed CD (Wrong/WRONG34)
$13.50
Finally reissued.
UPC:7 18751 95462 5

NOMEANSNO-Wrong CD (Wrong/WRONG30) $13.50
Finally reissued.
UPC:7 18751 95422 9

NOMEANSNO-0+2=1 CD (Wrong/WRONG35) $13.50
Finally reissued.
UPC:7 18751 95472 4

NOMEANSNO-One CD (Wrong/WRONG20) $13.50
Finally reissued.
UPC:7 18751 95322 2

sweet! but, no Worldhood?

Yay! (Wrong has been reissued a couple of years ago already, btw)

I scored Wrong on vinyl yesterday. Haven't owned it in 15 years. It holds up amazingly well.

Just got home from the Dublin show. Poor sound and a shitty crowd ruined it for me (why pay 20 quid just to talk all the way through it?) but the band themselves were on top form. In different circumstances, would have enjoyed it a lot more. Shame they didn't play any of my favorites, though.

Here's another band bubbling under my surface for years - heard the album with Jello Biafra but never went further. I just got the "People's Choice" comp and it's ace from start to finish. The earliest stuff sounds like they were a big influence on Cop Shoots Cop and other bass-focused bands. The way the music backs the chorus of "I Need You now now now now now now now now now" - splendid.

ok holy shit baby nomeansno video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTNr8i2ort0

cant get an exact date but uh 82 or 83 i suppose

quick summary to entice gbx and other peeps to go to the upcoming show(s)

1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPyAii6f-hc&feature=related

1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hni9dYzN5n8

1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPeEdbGf0JU

live 2 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE32Hudh3fM

they're playing two shows in the bay area this fall AND I CAN'T WAIT.

i can't believe i've never heard these guys

Seeing 'em tonight in Oaklandia.

interesting show, eh? it really underscores how his bass sound holds the band together - they sounded so thin once he replaced his amp.

yeah i immediately looked up his rig after reading this thread, his bass sound is so cool.

Wow, why did nobody tell me that these guys are awesome?

One for the "bands you assumed you didn't like from the name" thread, I guess - always imagined they were srs tune-free monochrome hardcore for srs angry dudes

(this does not explain why I didn't get round to checking them out in my srs tune-free monochrome angry phase, though)

does anyone have an MP3 of "Old," I can't find that shit anywhere

it's from tour EP 1, which is on itunes. or did you mean a free version?

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?

CATS
SEX
NAZIS

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.