July 29, 2010

Live Fast/Die Fast Comes Alive!: "NoMeansNo - Live + Cuddly"

"My head's not empty, it's full with my brain.
The thoughts I'm thinking, like piss down a drain."
Is It Really Live?


 Yes.
Is It Official?
Yes. Alternative Tentacles release but out of print.
Where Was It Recorded?
 Live at the Vera, Groningen and Effenaar, Eindhoven, Holland, Spring 1990
What are the Details?
 Recorded on what I believe was the "Wrong," tour, in Holland, where Andy Kerr eventually decided to settle after he left the band and got married a couple of years later.
 The band is so tight and note perfect that it doesn't make this recording super essential if you got the original albums. The song selection is from,"Wrong," "Small Parts," "The Day Everything Became Nothing," and "Sex Mad," and "You Kill Me," all of which can be purchased on 3 CDs, since the last 4 are paired with each other. Andy's banter during the middle section of "Two Lips Too Lungs and One Tongue," and the weird announcer intro are the only real standouts. It's a testament to a great live band but not a record I'd find myself compelled to listen to very often.
The Set:
  1. It's Catching Up
  2. Two Lips, Two Lungs And One Tongue
  3. Rags and Bones
  4. Body Bag
  5. Brother Rat
  6. What Slayde Says
  7. Some Bodies
  8. Teresa, Give Me That Knife
  9. Victory
  10. Dark Ages
  11. The End Of All Things
  12. The Day Everything Became Nothing
  13. Dead Souls
  14. Metronome
  15. No Fucking