The People's Choice

by NoMeansNo

The People's Choice cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 20 April 2004
  • Label: Alternative Tentacles
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:13:50
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This retrospective collection anthologizes the group's most successful material as selected by their dedicated audience. The tracklist provides a comprehensive overview of the band's stylistic evolution from early post-punk experiments to the technical mastery of their mature 'jazz-core' sound. It serves as a definitive archive of their role in standardizing the sophisticated and structurally challenging arrangements characteristic of regional alternative music.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, comprehensive

Tracklist

  1. Now (5:09)
  2. Sex Mad (4:13)
  3. Theresa, Give Me That Knife (2:13)
  4. Body Bag (4:38)
  5. Angel And Devil (3:42)
  6. Rags 'n Bones (5:07)
  7. I Need You (7:01)
  8. It's Catching Up (3:29)
  9. Humans (4:11)
  10. I Can't Stop Talking (5:29)
  11. The Day Everything Became Nothing (Live) (4:47)
  12. Dad (3:00)
  13. The River (6:19)
  14. Victory (7:55)
  15. Give Me The Push (6:37)

Credits

  • NoMeansNo - primary artist
  • Marc L'Esperance - assemblage [assembled by], mastered by
  • Randy Iwata - layout
  • W. Buzz Ryan - liner notes
  • Laurie Mercer - management [still "managing" to feign interest]
  • Ernie Hawkins - photography by [back cover photos]
  • Chick Rice - photography by [booklet]
  • Emma Lee - photography by [booklet]
  • Paul Clarke - photography by [booklet]
  • Paul Kelly - photography by [booklet]
  • Rachel Montpetit - photography by [booklet]
  • Reg Vomquist - photography by [booklet]
  • Hetty Zwart - photography by [inside back cover]
  • Craig Bougie - technician [live sound]

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