Nomeansno - Two Lips/Rags & Bones Live and Cuddly 1990

[@rubberneckk]

I can’t believe I’m still discovering brilliant shit at nearly 50!!..I’m hearing these guys for the first time today early August 2019 goddamit!!..why!!! WHY!!!!

[@Freehardy]

i was fortunate enough to see them on this very tour in Edinburgh. It's the Wrong Album tour. amazing album

[@mickharrison7262]

Better late than never old bean

[@rabasandramaran]

I'm jealous you just discovered them. I know these guys for ~25 years and didn't find much stuff that would be as good since then.

[@Dgggless]

No MEans No have yet to truly get the appreciation they deserve. Welcome to the club! and let's get them their due!

[@markpreston6930]

saw them about 50 times and many before Wrong

[@clausmohrmusic]

one of the best rock bands in the world!!!

[@nadiag0922]

The best!!

[@williamgoldsmith3932]

10-4

[@krystianluniewicz3881]

that Fender bass sounds like a thunder..THE BEST band ever

[@NefastusJones]

That's a kick-ass bass tone, right there!

[@Christandeathside]

And the only effect he used was turning all the way up.

[@albeanie7977]

@@Christandeathside all of the member really know how to play instrument

[@Christandeathside]

@@albeanie7977 and at a very advanced level! I have nothing but respect for the way they attacked their instruments and their stage presence.

[@eeeeeeeli]

The best.

[@ndrec]

every time I watch older NMN live performances I get how important Andy was to their sound, guitar and vocal wise.

[@williamgoldsmith3932]

10-4

[@multifunctionelis]

Totally

[@JHjh88]

I've loved them since I heard Wrong & Live & Cuddly when I was about 16. They are still prob my favourite band 20 years later. Metronome is absolutely amazing ❤ from Australia 🐨

[@Steinbolt1]

Still dreaming of a reunion with Andy❤

[@stetinum]

Nomeansno with Andy Kerr was the best band in the universe! "Wrong" "Sex Mad" "Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed" was great fucking albums :)

[@thebob01]

Agreed

[@DaveAnchovies]

Seconded strongly. I heard they're jerks,(could be repelling against the legend of NICE CANADIANS or having a bad night in Green Bay), but this undoubtedly is their apex. WRONG!!

[@beachmeadow1777]

How they musically swing with such ease from a dark vibe to a mountain of euphoric joy is unparalleled.

[@KindredAmy]

Great way to put it!

[@ehlava]

That version of Rags n Bones is amazing. What a performance

[@TheSouthernfried45]

Every time I hear it and this version, I think it's the best punk song ever written.

[@reinefiske5855]

When this album was released we had no idea or even a fantasy that it was filmed - and here it is. Amazing. Totally amazing

[@berend_dijk]

Actually I knew since I was at the concert and they always filmed concerts at Vera :-)

[@waynekoerner]

I had no idea, Live and Cuddly introduced me to them in the 90s and going to buy all the stuff before and listening to it was amazing. 20 years later youtube vid of actual recording blew my mind, soooo gooooddd!!!!

[@jonnyrobson2119]

We skated a mini ramp in the north east of England with this playing relentlessly. Such a trip to witness the video of it

[@oiuser]

Me too. ​@@waynekoerner

[@growskull]

she rises CAPTAIN she rises CAPTAAIIN

[@malloid]

Just amazing. Especially Rags & Bones. Got see them on the 0+2=1 tour, Nottingham Ballroom 1990. When Andy Kerr was in the band they were unstoppable. The Wright Bros. should be honoured for their contribution to punk rock music.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

"Let's take a vote! How many of you think he should finish the solo?" John Cage would've been proud.

[@alain3956]

I was 53 years old, was mad from NO MEANS NO.... for me one of the BEST on this world...

[@looshkin66]

this tape was stuck in the casset player in my old car......all it played was this album, over and over and over. It was awesome, i cant think of a better unhappy happy accident.

[@Motorhands]

Who do I bitch slap for not introducing me to this band 25 years ago?!

[@georgpalpeter2544]

Donald Trump

[@EnemabagJones]

I'm so jealous of you.....getting to go through their catalogue for the first time. So much awesome music, go get the album Wrong right now if you haven't already. They may be the most underrated band ever

[@pyenapple]

Nonono get "0+2=1" first. :)

[@Rodan100]

Check Alice Donut out if you haven't already....another 25 years ago fantastic band.

[@namoperson5359]

I am a proper music junkie, not a snob, I love all of the best music, and when asked what my favorite band is, I will wear it brightly on my sleeve, this is the best rock band that ever existed.

[@SeanEmbury]

I’ve watched this every couple of days…for two years. I can’t stop and KZbin keeps feeding me.

[@sludgefeastworld]

Never get tired of watching this. What a superb performance.

[@FahlbeckIII]

Still awesome in 2023

[@BudLightBeerOfStarCommand]

they are unbelievably tight musicians

[@starchy77]

Amazing - i have been listening to this album for 20+ years and now i get to watch them perform it live! awesome

[@666nofun]

THE BEST LIVE BAND IN HISTORY

[@sludgefeastworld]

Amazing footage of a great band at their peak.

[@DaveAnchovies]

exactly. Kerr was crucial to that.

[@ТанжихоловМуродулло]

I just discovered them and haven't even heard most of their discography and they are in my top 3 favorite bands already. I've never even liked punk before, but now I finally get it! Thanks, NMN!

[@SolidSnake66689]

Im glad i saw these guys 08 minus Andy of course with Tom at his stead and nomeansno was brilliant i went to Canada and was 19 at the time took my first shot at the bar grey goose then went to watch NomeansNo one of the best concerts ive seen

[@SolidSnake66689]

And I have to add i met tom and rob! They were so nice!

[@francofrogg]

Blast from the past--I kinda miss those days.

[@PDXCHawk]

Absolutely every second of this is perfect forever.

[@vargaso]

Prog-punk at its finest. Along with Bad Brains, best pure musicians in punk rock by a long shot. It would have behooved you all to have seen these guys live in the early 90s.

[@marvshinkleman6821]

you said "behooved."

[@gmprice]

@Trips No :)

[@gmprice]

@Trips :) Lots of good bands. If you think NoMeansNo wasn't brainy you didn't get into them. But the topic was prog-punk live energy, not many people who saw NMN in early 90s think there are bands anywhere that matched them for that. I brought people who loved all those bands and also deadheads, hip hop fans... jaws always dropped.

[@itsfine5818]

@Trips I'm wondering if you are at all aware how cringy this statement is. "You can prefer shallow music, I prefer more intellectual" You're not smarter than anyone else here, you're in fact far dumber for thinking like that.

[@itsfine5818]

@Trips Sure, there is some distinction. However, some music being more intelligent does not equal being superior in any way as your first comment implied - making you look like a pretentious douche.

[@igorzkoppt]

My first "real" live in my life was them, in Toulouse, France at about that time. I also discovered just a few years ago that they were still around... Thanks to an ad for a concert in Cork, at the Crane Lane :D (almost missed it) So I went to see them a second time, more than 20 years later.. It was weird, awesome, and it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen in Ireland. Even got to chat a bit with them after the gig. Just really great human beings :)

[@dolphsavage]

Nomeansno always brings the vicious basslines. There are some real grooves there.

[@tobypresnell316]

Saw them 4 times in the 90's up here in Portland. I'd force my way up to the rail and glue myself there just to watch the drummer the entire show. GD phenomenal players, thank god they never got "discovered".

[@mrdestructo74]

I had the privilege of seeing nmn at least 10 times in the nineties and every time it was magic . They blew away every band I have ever seen !! When they played there was no hate only a united crowd digging the vibe .just like its supposed to be . Next time the pop through Calgary I'm going for sure!!

[@DodoRecordings]

W00t, I was so lucky to be at this concert. I can see the young version of myself dancing at 3:36 :-)

[@Ohfishyfishyfish]

Love the smile right at the end, like "we just fucking killed it".

[@martinknutsen6731]

That concert is legendary. Ive seen them 4 times, but this is peak.

[@rockmyworldcanada3006]

Nomeansno (sometimes stylized as NoMeansNo or spelled No Means No) was a punk rock band formed in Victoria, BC and later relocated to Vancouver. They issued 11 albums, including a collaborative album with Jello Biafra, as well as numerous EPs and singles. Critic Martin Popoff described their music as "the mightiest merger between the hateful aggression of punk and the discipline of heavy metal." Formed in 1979 by brothers Rob and John Wright, the group began as a two-piece punk band influenced by jazz and progressive rock. They self-released their debut Mama LP in 1982. They were inducted into the Western Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2015, and announced their retirement the following year.

[@thecbbsofficial]

Between 1988 and 1990 I feel lucky that I saw them in Ottawa, Montreal (Foufonnes), Copenhagen and London (and a few other places in Europe too). My favourite moment was in London in front of their by far biggest crowd (+1000ish), someone was climbing onstage to do a stage dive and Rob crosschecked him, on the beat, with his bass (maybe in Metronome or Rags and Bones?) right back down into the crowd so all 4 strings made a huge sound on impact and then he continued right back into the riff on time like it was part of the song. Greatest live band of all time.

[@insertpithynamehere]

This is brilliant! And they're just such little kittens, here!! I wish I'd jumped on the chance to see them live when I could. I was born in '82, (in Victoria!) but: I had sisters who were 8 and 10 years older. I was spoonfed The Radness that is NMN. "Why do they call me Mister Happy? Because I'm so .... fucking....... smart" and "If every fourth animal in the world was a beetle...." were quoted lovingly around our house growing up. Coulda, shoulda, woulda....didn't. I suck. Still treasure their tunes, though. I went as one of their songs for Halloween this year.

[@vietmann7134]

This is so unbelievably good

[@stephansong]

How lucky I was to open up for them and DOA. Such elic bandz.

[@dannymosquito]

Brilliant! Just brilliant!

[@doroschulz2227]

Wo sind eigentlich die geilen, coolen, smarten Punks von damals. Alle so alt wie ich (58). Muss ich jetzt Schlager hören? NEVER EVER!!! 🤪😎

[@larotoole8797]

This brings back great memories of their incredible Dublin gig the same year, I wore my 'stay at home read a book' t-shirt until it fell off me

[@MrMookRecords]

In the New Inn? Killer gig!

[@royjohnson4042]

Yes, thank you! I loved that shirt. I once convinced my girlfriend's mom (English professor) that it was a feminist group dedicated to literary greatness. She asked to wear it to work, and did. The best live show I've ever seen (Minneapolis).

[@darrenmartin2195]

Seen these guys 5 times. Knowing they won't be touring again is a bit shitty to be honest. Amazing talent. Thanks nomeansno, I've loved the ride.

[@balzonurchin]

Best punk band in human history. If you disagree, you're plain WRONG.

[@lumpyplop]

balzonurchin buy your opinions here...going cheap...everyone should own one!!

[@jackburton3540]

@@lumpyplop whoosh

[@jackburton3540]

@@man-gi8su the original comment was a pun and this guy didn't understand it

[@iGramage]

I would have loved to have been there if I wasn't 4 years old at the time. Holy fuck what a show.

[@robertkraljii5048]

I confess to listening to this for the first time although i’ve been aware of them forever. I saw Fugazi in Montreal in 1992. It’s impossible they weren’t influenced by this.

[@PriapeBoudu]

Saw them one week before this gig. Life-changing experience.

[@iWORKsometimes]

NOMEANSO is one of the best that ever graced our planet & anyone who understands them is disturbed and damnd lucky at the same time

[@vermeer5]

I was living in Montreal and saw them on this tour. The Ex opened and they were amazing but these dudes absolutely killed. Still one of the best shows I have ever seen, screaming these lyrics in the pit with so many others screaming them as well. Andy Kerr was crucial.

[@denizplattner7180]

Live and cuddly was my introduction to Nomeansno. they became my favorite band, saw 'em five times and now they are not anymore...and they never turned shitty or let us down. how amazing is that?!

[@argueify]

I will miss em for sure if they truly are retired :(

[@ASKSer79]

Our boyfriends were practicing these chords as we learned every Ani DiFranco song. God bless the 90’s

[@DaveAnchovies]

why ani? she fooled a lot of young lesbian girls...straight as an arrow, nice and married to a handsome fella. she ran her own label, so besides a few employees...no label to rip her off. she used to come in the record store i worked at...totally cool local hero.

[@yogabrice9881]

I saw them in 1994 in Toulouse in France, one of my best show ever!!!

[@666nofun]

The best live band in the world

[@timslucky]

Wow I've had Live and Cuddly for 20 years. So cool to SEE this live! Didn't know this existed.

[@johnking8608]

First time I heard nomeansno on John peel that was the first thing i bought on the one track ep Day everything became nothing love it , bought mostly 12" back then fast forward 2013 i bought album only sheep need leaders that just one perfect album from start to finish amazing eh they had it, also that same time i bought those deep buds by dog faced hermans another amazing perfect album best sounding album production was spot on , also the ex catch my shoe another superb sounding album, love them

[@bosscat7782]

So lucky to be from their hometown, saw them about 10 times live and they never disappointed. Fucking awesome

[@Arrwmkr]

What really sets them apart from many others is their use of melody and dynamic, it's really funky

[@cuellar23]

So good. I saw these guys many times around this time

[@sgfuzz5465]

Back in high school, I was in my buddy’s room and he had a cassette of Wrong. I was intrigued by the album cover and was like “what the fuck is this?!” I borrowed it for a few days and have never been the same since.

[@haatju]

Lost hearing for one week after gig, very loud bass, I love it.

[@pawezieba7159]

for 30 years i love it!

[@pawezieba7159]

32

[@mihalyracz6357]

Sokan mindenféléket a valaha készült legjobb punk koncertfelvételnek tartanak, de tévedés, ez a létező legjobb.

[@mulvay2008]

I witnessed this tour. NMN is a piece of me...

[@artdudivin]

I've seen them in France in the earliers 90's.. What an incredible show !

[@punkofiel]

in my ears....,THE BEST LIVE BAND EVER!!!!!!!

[@TheDeuceBaggins]

Nomeansno is great. I saw them more than a dozen times in the nineties. He inspired me to learn to play bass. This is a real punk rock band.

[@uriel69879]

live and cuddly has been one of my favs for years. to see them in action is fantastic!

[@chestermarples5837]

I had the honor to saw them 2 times live in Austria-also the '90 Tour both Gig's were👌.In my opinion the Time's/ Records&Live Gig's with Andy Kerr was theyr best Period

[@wickedlee664]

Last time I saw them was prolly 93? 94? Victim's Family opened. NMN played about 2 hours and then they came back out and did 30 min as Hanson Brothers. They blew the mains at the Cattle Club in Sacto. I love.

[@looshkin66]

i am seeing nomeansno on the 26th for the 5th time, my life is complete.

[@bobbyconover]

I've thought the "Stormtroopers of Death" bit was John talking for the 10+ years I've been listening to this show. My whole world is collapsing!

[@kollega23]

This is one of the best bands, one of the best live albums, one of the best songs, one of the best whatever - of all time. Thank you.

[@mechamudzilla]

I keep coming back to watch this ❤

[@roachrip]

Absolutely amazing.. video of live and cuddly

[@Idjiit]

Holy shit, I had no idea there was actually video from Live & Cuddly. Thank you! As every one else has said - one of the tightest Live bands on the planet. Was honored to open for them soooo many years ago.

[@VaughnBrown1965]

I only saw these guys once. It was around this time, 1990 in Seattle at the OK Hotel. Killer show. So tight, such energy!!!

[@littleghostfilms3012]

this music could bust through a concrete wall!

[@swissmochaj]

Wish they would or could tour still. So pissed i never got to see them.

[@davecinelli9490]

You know the fullness of the sound is all three of them singing and I just realized they're harmonizing on this song.

[@ryeinaldobettahavmamony7656]

These guys would be dripping sweat two bars into the show. Best live band ever. Edit: i never knew there was video for this until now lol thanks 🙏

[@ВладимирПеришић]

Fantastic live performance! I was watching them in Belgrade 2006. The kings!

[@mamacharilondon8614]

Genius from start to finish...enjoy your retirement fellas...youve earned it!

[@conortierney2809]

1989/90 Wrong.. Euro Tour , Belfast Art College, bring your own beers ..enough said , one of my favourite gigs ever .

[@deadfishfm]

Saw them last night in Rotterdam. The first time during the Wrong tour. That's a lotta years in between and I gotta say: THEY STILL ROCK AS FUCK!!!!!!!!!!! Thnx for the vid.

[@TECHNOID69]

this is gonna take 15mins POWWWWWWWWWWW! LOL awesome.

[@poop_storm]

Such a great moment

[@StartbahnWest]

Love it how they play with the audience.

[@TranceofHaterd]

What a great band.

[@streetlugist]

i saw this band a few years ago playing a local show.. i bought their their double record set its sweet

[@router74]

Awesome vid. I too always thought John produced that S.O.D. spiel. Live + Cuddly = greatest live punk album ever!!!

[@danielgerth2088]

yessss! always !! memories!!

[@jahkeeli]

One of the few bands still around that rock every time, and just give you a damn good show!

[@jerryskid1]

I remember seeing them on tour with D.O.A. Great show!!

[@alwaysastudent]

HA! i was in a band some 20-odd years ago, and we used to cover 'Two Lips, Two Lungs And One Tongue' all the time. We ended up seeing them live too (where they also did the Hansen Brothers), with Alice Donut.

[@VeniVidiVicous]

2 great tracks of one brilliant album.

[@chorvat6656]

The Greatest Punk Band that Ever Lived 💯

[@janihakkinen8665]

Incredible musicality

[@settlestone]

this is almost my era.. and I had no clue about these guys until today.. dave grohl interview (who i don't really like's music but think he's a creative guy) had an interview where he stated these guys were the best band ever.. I attest.. this is pretty good shit.

[@penguinoid5635]

Great band! Amazin'!!!

[@mike902]

Amazing footage. Glad I got to see them a handful of times in the mid-to-late 90's and early 00's.

[@rp7o333]

Victoria had a surprizingly good art scene...NoMeansNo was the f&*7cking greatest punk band of all time and often still is (lucky enuff to live up near Lund).