Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed CD (wrong 34)

side a

  1. The Day Everything Became Nothing
  2. Dead Souls
  3. Forget Your Life
  4. Beauty And The Beast

side b

  1. Brother Rat / What Slayde Says
  1. Dark Ages
  2. Junk

side c

  1. And That's Sad
  2. Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed
  3. Victory

side d

  1. Teresa, Give Me That Knife
  2. Real Love
  3. Lonely

cover

Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed was NoMeansNo's third full-length. First released in 1988 the record was then compiled together with the EP The Day Everything Became Nothing, to become the aptly titled The Day Everything Became Isolated And Destroyed. These recordings show NMN at the height of their creativity and their early obsession with social order in its many strands.

The band's trademark genre-defiance is in full effect, with blistering punk/hardcore tracks like "Dead Souls" and "Teresa Give Me That Knife" to the long, noisy jazzcore of "Small Parts Isolated And Destroyed" and the amazing "Brother Rat/What Slayde Says", the latter functioning almost like a spoken word piece.

Lyrically, NMN are treating the ups and downs of everyday life itself as the epic rigours, odysseys and iliads that we must struggle to survive. Why sing about evil celestial visitors and battles between God and Satan when we actually have to live with the real-life evils of willful ignorance, sorrow, filth, alienation, defeat, loneliness and dishonesty?

Unavailable for many years, Wrong Records bring us this classic album in all its glory.