All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt

All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt
Studio album by NoMeansNo
Released	2006 (2006)
Genre	Punk rock
Length	53:03
Label	Wrong/AntAcidAudio in North America, Wrong/Southern in Europe
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The People's Choice (2004) All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt (2006) —

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All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt is the twelfth and final album by influential Canadian punk rock band NoMeansNo.

Overview

The album featured a set of songs that were generally shorter than average for Nomeansno; the band consciously wrote an album in this style in reaction to several of their previous albums. Drummer John Wright remarked:

After One had come out, which was a fairly, well, not really dark album, but it was a "sit and listen to on your own" kind of record. With the longer songs, especially with "Bitches' Brew", I really enjoyed that and was really happy with it. I think it is one of our stronger records. But we thought, Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie was a very obscure album and not our greatest effort, so Ausfahrt was like, let's do some short songs, 10 or 12 on the album, and keep it under 50 minutes, and just try to do something rocking...the group of songs we chose for Ausfahrt, it had a kind of flow - not earth shattering or really deep but that was a fairly conscious effort to do something that was a little more accessible.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Wake Up" - 2:35
2. "In Her Eyes" - 3:28
3. "Mr. in Between" - 3:17
4. "I See a Mansion in the Sky" - 6:31
5. "Ashes" - 3:31
6. "So Low" - 2:17
7. "Faith" - 4:33
8. "Heaven Is the Dust Beneath My Shoes" - 7:18
9. "Mondo Nihilissimo 2000" - 2:41
10. "The Hawk Killed the Punk" - 2:56
11. "I'm Dreaming and I Can't Wake Up" - 3:56
12. "'Til I Die" - 3:33
13. "Slugs Are Burning" - 3:00
14. "The Future Is a Past" - 3:27

Album name and cover art

In German, Ausfahrt means an exit from a motorway. The album art combines elements of German traffic signage and Telus typography, as well as photographs.

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