Tracklist:
01. Living Is Free [4:28]
02. My Roommate Is Turning Into A Monster [4:07]
03. Red Devil [5:48]
04. Mama's Little Boy [6:02]
05. We Are The Chopped [5:25]
06. No Sex [3:48]
07. Rich Guns [3:55]
08. No Rest For The Wicked [5:11]
09. Living In Detente [3:37]
10. Try Not to Stutter [2:47]
11. I'm All Wet [2:45]
12. Approaching Zone [2:20]
13. Forget Your Life [4:55]
+ video: Forget Your Life / Rich Guns (local Victoria cable productions circa 1981)

Originally recorded at Key Studios, Victoria, B.C. in 1982
Re-Mastered February 25, 1992 at Whipping Post Studios, Vancouver
CD remastered by Marc L'Esperance
Video files written by Marcus Rodgers
Living In Detente recorded on a TEAC reel-to-reel 4-track in Wrights mothers basement
Tracks 10 to 13 are also home recordings, originally released as a 7" EP. The EP didn't have a title but became to be known as 'Betrayal, Fear, Anger, Hatered'

Personnel:
Rob Wright - bass, vocals, guitars
John Wright - drums, vocals, keyboards, bells, percussion and Mamas
Eric Sinclar - saxophone (12)

QUOTE

NoMeansNo began life in the heady punk days of the late 1970's after Rob Wright, a dishwasher at a campus cafeteria, had seen an early performance by D.O.A. Originally a duo comprised of Rob and brother John Wright, when NoMeansNo finally decided to emerge from the subterranean, four track, den of musical self indulgence that most new bands inhabit, they realized that unlike most bands they had no guitar player. There was only one thing to do and that was to write bass and drum songs (many years before the fad). It required a new approach to the song structures as you couldn't rely on standard rock guitar riffs to impress the punters. Instead, emphasizing rolling bass lines, prominent lyrics and drumming, busy enough to fill in the gaps but still driving the beat, NMN's unique song writing took shape. The product was NMN's 1982 release, Mama. Although primitive sounding and not indicative of their guitar injected fury, this album still stands out as one of their most interesting. Dark yet inspiring lyrics and the signature dynamics, it still reaches the fever pitch energy and emotional peaks that NMN was to become known for. A band in it's infancy but what a scary little baby. Only five hundred vinyl copies of Mama were originally printed before a few hundred more were reissued on cassette. This new version is the remastered edition which originally appeared as Wrong Records' first ever release back in the early nineties, complete with four extra tracks taken from the Betrayal, Fear, Anger, Hatred seven inch EP that was released a year or so before Mama. Both the original and remastered editions have become rarities over the course of the last ten years, a situation to be remedied by this edition of the album. Timed to coincide with the band's 25th anniversary three tours of Europe and to follow in the wake of the release of The People's Choice compilation, Mama now features the videos for "Forget Your Life" and "Rich Guns" for the first time. (southern.com) NoMeansNo's independent debut album, Mama, was for a decade the Holy Grail for punk record collectors. The initial pressing of only 500 copies had been snapped up locally, once the band started to tour, and then, inexplicably, the master tapes were lost and the independent pressing plant closed down - it seemed the album was gone forever. The band ingenuously made a tape copy from an album, and sold it through their record label for a few years, but that was it. Its price among collectors skyrocketed, as the band's status among aficionados grew, mainly because of their incendiary live performances. Finally, in the late 1990s, a record store owner in Vancouver found the masters in the estate of the pressing plant, and returned them to the band. NoMeansNo, the least business-oriented band in punk rock, was at that time becoming increasingly estranged from their longtime record company, Alternative Tentacles, and had decided to leave Jello Biafra's label, simultaneously withdrawing all their masters and releases from public distribution. For almost two years they continued to play big sold out concerts all over Europe and Canada, without having a single title available in retail stores. Only NoMeansNo could get away with such a business decision and survive. Throughout their career NoMeansNo have refused to play suitor to record companies, even refusing to put A&R reps waving record deals on the guest list. It took a year to find acceptable distribution - John Loder's Southern Distribution, founded by legendary iconoclasts Crass, became their new home. When it came time to relaunch their back catalog, John Wright's top priority was to remaster and release Mama which finally, in 2004, saw its debut CD release. Remixed, with a bonus EP and video tracks, Mama is an intriguing embryonic work for the band. Brothers Rob - a dishwasher at a local college, and John - still living in his mother's basement - perform as a duo, and their influences, technical prowess, and ambitions are clearly on display. Rob's bass playing is already superb, slippery and fast, always in the lead, while John hammers along, constantly adorning the tracks with clever, almost progressive, fills, changing velocity and style seamlessly. Gang of Four, Ramones, D.O.A., Stranglers, all show NoMeansNo's subtle influences in the arrangements and attack, as do Rush, King Crimson, or Madness. It's not exactly punk, or new wave, or even minimalist art rock; it exists in its own reality. Even from the cover art (an evil-looking Rorschach ink blot with the title Mama right above it), it is obvious that there is something a whole lot more to this band than just another middle class angst-fest - the arrangements and performances are dense, hard; even the whimsical ("My Roommate Is Turning into a Monster," "Big Dick") have a robust fury in their delivery. It may be underwhelming compared to later work, and the lyrics not as well developed, but still has hints of Rob Wright's fascination with psychological paradoxes. The bonus tracks on the CD are from a 1981 7" EP, "Betrayal, Fear, Anger, Hatred," and are relatively straightforward, with only the piano-based "More ICBMs" showing John's fascination with pop music. An early version of "Forget Your Life" is Rob's first exploration of a contrast he would later explore in the anthemic Victory, which is seemingly positive and upbeat but actually nihilistic; "Forget Your Life" is exactly the reverse. Hilarious, really. Finally, to make this release absolutely essential for NoMeansNo collectors, there are two ridiculously funny videos of the brothers on a Victoria television station, performing "Rich Guns" and "Forget Your Life." The performances are on a bare stage, and the brothers' visual presentation is obviously based on Kraftwerk, or Devo - yes, it's the NoMeansNo robots! After releasing Mama, the band understood they needed another element in the mix, and added guitarist Andy Kerr to the lineup. The results, of course, were legendary: in next recording the You Kill Me EP and their masterwork, Wrong, they laid the groundwork for their long successful career, and earned a permanent place in the punk rock firmament. (by Laurie Mercer, AMG)

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