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: Artist......: The No Ones
: Album.......: My Best Evil Friend :
: Label.......: Yep Roc Records .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Indie :
Catnr.......: YEP-3048 .
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; Rip.date....: 2023-04-22
Str.date....: 2023-03-31
Quality.....: 262kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
.:. Url.........: http://the-no-ones.bandcamp.com '
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1. KLIV 2:42
2. 304 Molino Way 3:00
3. Phil Ochs Is Dead 3:33
4. Song for George 3:50
5. Blue Cheer Captain 2:36
6. Cameo Parkway 4:15
7. One Night at the Fillmore 3:45
8. Throwdown in Whispertown 2:46
9. Time Sent Lewis 3:52
10. Band with No Head 3:12
11. We Are Your Band 3:34
12. The After Party 3:18
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,: "No one is defined as nobody. An example of no one is how you :,
: would describe who is in an empty house. Not one person, nobody. :
:' The logical negation of someone." ':
,: :,
: OK, that makes sense. The No Ones are also defined as "not a :
:' single person" and that's fine too. In this case there are but ':
,: four No Ones, and you can put them all in one room, though not :,
: very often at the same time. They are, alphabetically: :
:' ':
,: Peter Buck - R.E.M., Minus 5, Filthy Friends, Baseball Project, :,
: Luke Haines, etc. Countless songs -- you can only hope to :
:' contain them! Double-LPs and pizza. Hound Dog Taylor, ':
,: Raspberries and Sault. Warm weather and walking. Made three :,
: amazing and fucked-up solo albums that are available only in an :
:' alternate analog world. ':
,: :,
: Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen - I Was A King, Rural Tapes, etc. Drums, :
:' keyboards, percussion, vocals, etc. Arne played the ':
,: controversial piano solo on "Turn Again" from first No Ones :,
: long-player. He loves forest green, his Korg MS-10, Can, and :
:' Raymond Scott. Rural Tapes (solo/collaborative instrumental ':
,: project) release 2nd album Inner Space Music November 2022. :,
: :
:' Scott McCaughey - Young Fresh Fellows, The Minus 5, R.E.M., ':
,: Baseball Project, Filthy Friends, etc. Primary lyricist, plus :,
: bass, keyboards, guitars and vocals. He enjoys coffee in his :
:' spare time, and dreams of Neil Young and Irma Thomas fronting ':
,: Sun Ra's Arkestra, with Nice As Fuck opening. Casablanca and The :,
: Florida Project are required viewing. Scott The Hoople is his :
:' solo side-career. ':
,: :,
: Frode Str°mstad - I Was A King, Rider, etc. Master of melodies :
:' as well as guitars, capos, chords, and vocal cords. He parties ':
,: down with GBV and Elf Power. I Was A King releases its 8th album :,
: Follow Me Home in September 2022. :
:' ':
,: So, making music comes naturally to this band, despite the :,
: obstacles. Conceived above the Arctic Circle, split by thousands :
:' of miles, and compounded by ridiculous schedules and ':
,: pandemics... Thirty-plus songs later and we have My Evil Best :,
: Friend, the band's third release and follow-up to 2020's :
:' exceptional (by definition) The Great Lost No Ones Album. ':
,: :,
: My Best Evil Friend was realized in the way it was required, :
:' bouncing tracks back and forth from studios in Norway to the ':
,: Dungeon Of Horror in Portland, Oregon, with a few other helpful :,
: home-recorders. Arne and Frode were able to track live guitars :
:' and drums together in Oslo, which somehow gives the vibe of a ':
,: combo rockin' a high school gym -- owing much to the engineering :,
: work of Bσrd Ingebrigtsen, who also did the final mixes. :
:' ':
,: Whereas Great Lost Album was imagined as being discovered in :,
: 2054 by a retro-hipster-scribe in Mojo ("The Last Magazine"), :
:' the latest is a blurry tribute to our own LP collections and ':
,: memories, the artists that populate our turntables, and those :,
: that continue to inspire us. Not exactly in linear or :
:' transparent ways, but you'll find shadows of Plastic Ono Band, ':
,: Joe Tex, Sugar Pie de Santo, Nick Lowe, beat poet Michael :,
: McClure, Blind Tom, Pamela Polland, Dean Martin, and on and on. :
:' There are even outright paeans to George Harrison, Jenny Lewis, ':
,: and Phil Ochs, among others. And once again the quartet has :,
: enlisted contributions from generous friends, through the voices :
:' of Debbi Peterson (Bangles), Norman Blake (Teenage Fan Club), ':
,: Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), as well as 'lead bass' from :,
: Camper Van Beethoven's Victor Krummenacher, and strings from :
:' Marin Ballemo Bakke. ':
,: :,
: With a 2020 tour of Norway repeatedly Covid-canceled, as well as :
:' lost appearances at Roskilde and other festivals, you might ':
,: think it makes sense to hang it up. Well, it does, but that's :,
: not the way it works. When downtime is forced upon you, the :
:' committed musician just turns it into more songs, more records, ':
,: more life. The No Ones still hope to meet you all in person, but :,
: for now, let's hope that My Best Evil Friend can at least pull :
:' you into their orbit, like a beacon from RKO. ':
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