Positively unclassifiable unless you count "weird".
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Combination of two albums, Sex Mad (EP) and You Kill Me. My thing with NoMeansNo is that I either really like or really dislike most of their songs. I like most of this CD but can't stand a couple songs. I used to worry about getting speeding tickets when I'd listen to this album in my car that didn't have cruise control. I liked Hendrix's "Manic Depression" until I heard this cover. This is way, way cooler. "So why don't you just stop? Stop. It's easy—you just... don't." |
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The Day Everything Became Isolated and Destroyed(1988)
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Another combo CD: The Day Everything Became Nothing (EP) plus Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed. I don't listen to this one as often as I used to. It's good, but most or all of these songs that also appear on the live album are better there. "'Slayde, you are a poet', I said, 'but what are you truly speaking of?'" |
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Wrong(1989)
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Great album. Another one that I need to listen to more, though I could do entirely without "Big Dick" and "Life in Hell". I sure wouldn't have expected a band like NoMeansNo to drop a reference to playing cribbage into a song ("Bruno"). I didn't even notice the reference until once when I was playing my cousin and wound up on the pissed-off end of "30 for 6". I didn't have an ace in my hand, so it went exactly like in the song. If I could play "Rags and Bones" on my guitar, I'd basically never stop. "...And I am married to a cigarette butt, lying in the gutter!" |
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Live & Cuddly(1991)
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Pretty good live album. Guitarist Andy Kerr has fun screwing with the audience during the "Two Lips" solo. Really funny. "Metronome" couldn't be better. "...And you make them fit into these square little BOXES! All in the name of order, order, order, ORDER!" |
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0 + 2 = 1(1991)
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Not most NoMeansNo fans' favourite—not mine, either. But it still has some good stuff, except for track 7. This was Andy Kerr's last album with NoMeansNo. "Joyful Reunion" was another speeding-ticket-danger song for me. "When the current is grounded, its circuitry hums, 'zero plus two equals one'" |
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Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy?(1993)
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So-so album. Not much guitar (other than bass guitar), as Andy Kerr hadn't been replaced yet, and bassist Rob Wright only overdubbed a few guitar lines in his stead. The track breaks on the CD are not well-aligned with some of the song breaks, particularly on both ends of "Madness and Death". "Happy Bridge" is one of those songs I just never get tired of hearing. Now you know why they call me Mr. Happy. "I really believe all the things I say to you—it's just that none of them are true!" |
Mr. Right and Mr. Wrong: One Down and Two To Go(1994)
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Kind of a "closet-cleaning" album with only a couple new songs and some old stuff recorded by the brothers Wright before they formed NoMeansNo. I'm not sure that this technically counts as a NoMeansNo album, but it's close enough for me. "Real Love" is a cover of the NoMeansNo song by Swell Prod.; "Victoria" is performed by the Hanson Brothers (the band, not the hockey guys). "Are you dead? Are you blind or just stupid?" |
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The Worldhood of the World (As Such)(1995)
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Not too bad. First album with new guitarist Tom Holliston. Tracks 3-5 were this album's speeding songs for me. "Well, I don't trust that voice in my head! It's not mine—it's the voice of the dead!" |
Would We Be Alive?(unknown year)
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OK EP, but In the Fishtank is a better deal and a better mastering. This one isn't worth it for just "Rise". |
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In the Fishtank(1997)
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Excellent EP. Tracks 1, 2, and 5 were also on Would We Be Alive? but this disc has better audio quality. There were two drummers on all the tracks. "Would We Be Alive?" is a cover of a song by the Residents. "The River" particularly benefits from the addition of Tom Holliston and the extra drummer. This rendition of it still blows me away. |
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Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie(1998)
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Not bad, not great. Tracks 5 and 8 do nothing for me aside from making me skip to the next song. |
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One(2000)
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Decent. "Bitch's Brew" is a cover of Miles Davis's song but with lyrics added; "Beat on the Brat" is a cover of the Ramones' song; "Hello/Goodbye" is not a cover of the Beatles' song. Did the band go back in time and record the "Phone Call" interlude with Black Sabbath? That could just about have been on Paranoid. Not a complaint at all, of course. "Turn left, turn right... and look for the neon sign!" |
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Generic Shame(2001)
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Cool EP, though the first song isn't for me. Cool to hear drummer John Wright take lead vocals on a song ("I Get Up"). "My brain thinks, and my bowels move!" |
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All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt(2006)
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Yeah, pretty good. The good songs seem better than usual, but the not-as-good songs seem a little lacking somehow. "I'm going to shovel this snow 'til I die!" When I lived in snow country, that verse seemed written just for me. "You rise... You shine." |