R.O.P. wrote:You have to be kidding me! This is the only other band in the world that can compete with Shellac's rhythm section.

How 'bout: Bogart/Appice , Moon /Entwhistle, Sims / MacNeily, Bonham / Jones , Lemmy / Taylor , Rudd/Williams , Hurley/Watt, Flea / Smith etc...

More Kerr-era awesomeness.

Andrew L. wrote:More Kerr-era awesomeness.

Thanks for that Andrew. I missed them last night in Vancouver, so this fills the gap nicely.

Fun to see John's kit center-stage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ZXR9F8A6Q

I just realized that Andy would have made a great regular in David Lynch films. Poor John , having to play a Pearl Export rental kit. Awesome stuff though.

i was under-rested when i saw nomeansno on wednesday night... and i couldn't get into the stuff from the new album. didn't stay for the encore. they're really tight... but a lot of the songs are kind of boring

shagboy wrote:i was under-rested when i saw nomeansno on wednesday night... and i couldn't get into the stuff from the new album. didn't stay for the encore. they're really tight... but a lot of the songs are kind of boring

I've seen them many times and yeah, if you don't know the songs inside out, it wouldn't be difficult to miss the subtleties (at that kind of volume ). My friend (who had never seen them and has only heard 'Mr. Happy') saw the same show and said much the same things you did. I'm with you on that new album...Horrifying !

What do you guys not like about the new album, just out of curiosity?

(And please don't say "it's horrible" again)

mackro wrote:What do you guys not like about the new album, just out of curiosity?

(And please don't say "it's horrible" again)

Lyrics , no vibe or atmosphere (think 'Mama'), riffs aren't memorable,rehash factor (these guys still put on a great show, but they haven't evolved since Mr.Happy), Andy's not playing on it , excessive slapstick factor etc..Don't get me wrong , I love what these guys have done overall, but the bar is set pretty high as is and they had 5 years to make the damn thing ! Hope that clears things up Mackro.

Well, it didn't take them five years to make the album. They only started fleshing out the songs in late '05... the entire album went from concept to ship in less than a year. They had taken a studio break for 4 of those years, Hanson Brothers aside.

Mama vibe? Not sure what you mean, as there's lots of guitar on this one and it's very lush, whereas Mama has no guitar at all and sounds really sparse.

And the "no Andy" thing isn't really fair since it's been 15 years since he was last in the band. If this was the first or second Andy-less album, then sure..

I know I'm sounding impetuous, so I apologize... I'm happy to agree to disagree, trust me. And I pretty much love all the records, however Ausfahrt is a Top 3 album for me alongside Wrong and Worldhood, so I'm just trying to figure out why I'm relatively alone here...