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** “Look, Here Come the Wormies” depicts the world being taken over by worms.
** “The Day Everything Became Nothing” is about everyone in the world forgetting who they are at the same time and trying to sort out how to proceed from there.
* “It’s Catching Up”, the opening track from ''Wrong'', is about someone trying to outrun a zombie. Track 6, “The End of All Things”, has more ambiguous lyrics, but the title and chorus evoke the Christian idea of apocalypse at least metaphorically. Reissues of the album end with the bonus track “End of the World”, a cover of the Skeeter Davis hit that compares the devastation of a breakup to feeling as though the world is ending.
* “Falling Space Junk” and “Chew”—both from their collaborative album with Jello Biafra—depict, respectively, the world ending because of a crashing spaceship carrying plutonium, and gigantic gangs of rats devouring everything in sight.

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** “Look, "Look, Here Come the Wormies” Wormies" depicts the world being taken over by worms.
** “The "The Day Everything Became Nothing” Nothing" is about everyone in the world forgetting who they are at the same time and trying to sort out how to proceed from there.
* “It’s ** "It’s Catching Up”, Up", the opening track from ''Wrong'', is about someone trying to outrun a zombie. Track 6, “The "The End of All Things”, Things", has more ambiguous lyrics, but the title and chorus evoke the Christian idea of apocalypse at least metaphorically. Reissues of the album end with the bonus track “End "End of the World”, World", a cover of the Skeeter Davis hit that compares the devastation of a breakup to feeling as though the world is ending.
* “Falling ** "Falling Space Junk” Junk" and “Chew”—both "Chew"—both from their collaborative album with Jello Biafra—depict, respectively, the world ending because of a crashing spaceship carrying plutonium, and gigantic gangs of rats devouring everything in sight.
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* ApocalypseHow: Several of the band’s songs depict an apocalypse of one kind or another; sometimes separate songs on the same album depict completely different scenarios. Some examples:
** “Look, Here Come the Wormies” depicts the world being taken over by worms.
** “The Day Everything Became Nothing” is about everyone in the world forgetting who they are at the same time and trying to sort out how to proceed from there.
* “It’s Catching Up”, the opening track from ''Wrong'', is about someone trying to outrun a zombie. Track 6, “The End of All Things”, has more ambiguous lyrics, but the title and chorus evoke the Christian idea of apocalypse at least metaphorically. Reissues of the album end with the bonus track “End of the World”, a cover of the Skeeter Davis hit that compares the devastation of a breakup to feeling as though the world is ending.
* “Falling Space Junk” and “Chew”—both from their collaborative album with Jello Biafra—depict, respectively, the world ending because of a crashing spaceship carrying plutonium, and gigantic gangs of rats devouring everything in sight.
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* GaiasVengeance: Their debut single “Look, Here Come the Wormies” is about rebellious worms—“anarchaic annelids”—taking over the world.
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Tom Holliston has since maintained a solo career, touring the world periodically with just an acoustic guitar. John Wright’s first major output post-breakup was writing and recording songs for the Berlin-based all-robot rock band [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YxDJBJTMGQE8e2uzg7Ctw Compressorhead]]’s first album, 2017’s ''Party Machine'', which also included a cover of the Hanson Brothers song “My Girlfriend’s A Robot”. For a time, he also owned and operated a brewpub in his adopted hometown of Powell River, British Columbia. In 2023, he released a self-produced solo album under the name Dead Bob. Rob Wright has fully retired from music, and one of his prized Fender Precision bass guitars now resides in the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas.

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Tom Holliston has since maintained a solo career, touring the world periodically with just an acoustic guitar. John Wright’s first major output post-breakup was writing and recording songs for the Berlin-based all-robot rock band [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YxDJBJTMGQE8e2uzg7Ctw Compressorhead]]’s first album, 2017’s ''Party Machine'', which also included a cover of the Hanson Brothers song “My Girlfriend’s A Robot”. For a time, he also owned and operated a brewpub in his adopted hometown of Powell River, British Columbia. In 2023, he released a self-produced solo album under the name Dead Bob. Bob and assembled a band of the same name for live performances. Rob Wright has fully completely retired from music, and one of his prized Fender Precision bass guitars now resides in the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas.

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Post-retirement, John Wright has kept himself busy musically writing and recording songs for the Berlin-based all-robot rock band [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YxDJBJTMGQE8e2uzg7Ctw Compressorhead]].

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Post-retirement, Tom Holliston has since maintained a solo career, touring the world periodically with just an acoustic guitar. John Wright has kept himself busy musically Wright’s first major output post-breakup was writing and recording songs for the Berlin-based all-robot rock band [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YxDJBJTMGQE8e2uzg7Ctw Compressorhead]].
Compressorhead]]’s first album, 2017’s ''Party Machine'', which also included a cover of the Hanson Brothers song “My Girlfriend’s A Robot”. For a time, he also owned and operated a brewpub in his adopted hometown of Powell River, British Columbia. In 2023, he released a self-produced solo album under the name Dead Bob. Rob Wright has fully retired from music, and one of his prized Fender Precision bass guitars now resides in the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** Many of the lyrics in "Big Dick" seem to evoke masturbation.
** Jello Biafra has said his and Nomeansno's song "Bruce's Diary" off ''The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy'' is written from the point of view of his ''Film/TerminalCityRicochet'' character Bruce Coddle while he masturbates.

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Nomeansno’s sound was characterized by Rob’s groovy and darkly melodic basslines, John’s precise and powerful drumming, and—especially during the Andy Kerr years—screeching, rhythmic guitar. Their lyrics were often bizarre and surreal, sometimes violent and horrific, but just as often (if not simultaneously) humorous or comedic. Their [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly genre-bending ways]], musicianship, and use of [[UncommonTime atypical rhythms and time signatures]] often gets them categorized as jazz punk, and they are widely considered forerunners of math rock.

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Nomeansno’s sound was characterized by Rob’s groovy and darkly melodic basslines, John’s precise and powerful drumming, and—especially during the Andy Kerr years—screeching, rhythmic guitar. Their lyrics were often bizarre and surreal, sometimes violent and horrific, but just as often (if not simultaneously) humorous or comedic. Their [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly genre-bending ways]], ways, musicianship, and use of [[UncommonTime atypical rhythms and time signatures]] often gets them categorized as jazz punk, and they are widely considered forerunners of math rock.



* GenreRoulette: Though the band is known for their signature style of extremely groovy and meticulous punk rock, they had diverse stylistic influences, and their output ranges from raucous hardcore to synthpop to progressive rock to jazz to a capella.



* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Though the band is known for their signature style of extremely groovy and meticulous punk rock, they had diverse stylistic influences, and their output ranges from raucous hardcore to synthpop to progressive rock to jazz to a capella.
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[[AuthorExistenceFailure Tragedy struck]] in early 1995 when Ken Jensen died in a fire caused by a discarded cigarette in a house with no smoke detector. Jensen had also been drumming for D.O.A., and John handled both production and percussion duties on the band’s next album ''The Black Spot''. Later the same year, Nomeansno released their first album with Tom Holliston, ''The Worldhood of the World (As Such)'', the title of which was inspired by Rob’s [[HiddenDepths interest]] in the writing of existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

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[[AuthorExistenceFailure Tragedy struck]] struck in early 1995 when Ken Jensen died in a fire caused by a discarded cigarette in a house with no smoke detector. Jensen had also been drumming for D.O.A., and John handled both production and percussion duties on the band’s next album ''The Black Spot''. Later the same year, Nomeansno released their first album with Tom Holliston, ''The Worldhood of the World (As Such)'', the title of which was inspired by Rob’s [[HiddenDepths interest]] in the writing of existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger.

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