NOMEANSNO Still Ragin’ After All These Years

The first time I saw nomeansno was back in the summer of 1989, mere weeks before the release of Wrong, a “rock against prisons” show (hey why not) at Crab Park. I was there based on a friend lending me a very crappy taped copy of “Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed” (for you youngsters that’s a cassette tape: compact, portable and totally shitty). Upon seeing the band take the stage my initial thought was, these guys are old, but seconds later my concept of what punk rock could or should be was changed forever. Needless to say it was the first of many times over the years that I would play witness to the awesome power of nomeansno. This is not your typical rock band. What they lacked in hair pigment was more than made up for in musical talent, intensity and madness. “Kill everyone now”, Rob Wright would proclaim on their 1993 release, “Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy”; kill everyone now indeed, Rob. Read more