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The Lost Media of No, Really

I think it's obvious to say that I'm obsessed with Hannah Sheehan's band No, Really. I've listened to 2 out of the 3 albums put out by her, compiled my own "definitive version" of Rust, and made my blog a carbon copy of the 2008 layout for the noreallyrock website.

By the by, don't go to that website anymore. It was a weird japanese scam website and I guess they've been squatting on it since 2012 before its domain expired this year??? I don't know, but don't go to it anyways because nothing's there anymore.

And of course with an obscure topic like No, Really also comes with an abundance of content that I can't personally find but have seen from archives and abandoned websites. Sooo.... I've decided to just slap them all together in one list and put out what I know about these lost treasures of my hyperfixation.

last.fm Oddities

(With the way last.fm works with metadata, it can be hard to discern what truly belongs to No, Really, Hannah's purely solo work (not released under the No, Really name), or the Michigan-based No, Really! [now known as Squid the Whale] But I hopefully dug out all the songs that are definitely No, Really.)

  • Matches v1.0/2.0 - Matches v1.0 is probably the variant posted on MetaFilter, what I'm wondering is what Matches v2.0 is. I assume either Hannah listened to this version of Matches herself and it scrobbled, the track is mislabeled from a p2p service,  or perhaps v2 is the MetaFilter post and v1 is the lost version.
  • "it started!" - No idea what this is. Sounds like a video title, maybe a lost video from her old channel?
  • "C#m again" - ...nobody is attached to this song under any No, Really name. I don't even want to know.
  • "constant liar" - No info from me.
  • Multiple Lives (with strings) - Other than the trend of mislabeled tracks from the Thousand Yard Stare EP and Rust albums, this one is a doozy. Right now, only two versions of Multiple Lives exist; the original guitar mix on the TYS EP and the a capella version on MetaFilter. But this one seems to only exist only as a last.fm scrobble.
  • "worst damn song in the universe", "hulk dash track" - I assume these are not supposed to be there. I won't accept the slander in that first name if it was given to a No, Really track.
  • Just the Facts Ma'am, 10 I Will, On the Road, Nice Dream, & Don't Remind Me - Probably just random songs attributed to No, Really.

Website Archive

  • Every No, Really Live Performance/Live-only tracks

    - Also another holy grail as it's mentioned that these songs are sometimes recorded but not released. These tracks include unreleased songs like Final Hours, Bright Red Devils, Waiting For the Ring, and Picture. One thing I have to note is the single scrobble of Final Hours on last.fm; meaning that at one point, Final Hours was released by Hannah but was never archived. And I'd like to have that copy archived.
  • - This also applies to the nonzero chance that a No, Really live video exists out there, probably on somebody's hard drive or SD card.
  • Oh, and one more thing. The existence of a live demo of Do You Know Where Your Children Are? and Citizen, Go Back to Sleep (with alternate lyrics!).

- ORIGINAL RUST CD

(A NO, REALLY ZENITH FROM HANNAH HERSELF)

  • Now a CD of Rust isn't necessarily lost, per se, anybody can make one themselves (and maybe go the extra mile and have it distributed.). Hell, I made my own bootleg kit for my own remastering of the No, Really discography. But the important thing here is the fact that Hannah would send one to you if you emailed her in late 2008.
  • Again, I would like to have this illusive CD myself and have it archived. It might not be as different from the downloadable version online, but it needs to be preserved is what I think.

- Possible Thousand Yard Stare EP Digipak(?)

  • Just going off of this page from the earliest version of the No, Really website, there is such a narrow chance that the TYS EP could've had a digipak release. But that chance is too narrow for a possibility to fit out of once you realize these are instructions on how to make a digipak, so this is speculation.

MySpace Page (heh, how meta.)

  • The whole damn page itself.

  • Live At The Grind - As of now, this only lists a song called Lucky which is also lost. It has 29 scrobbles on last.fm, but it could also just mean only 29 people listened to it while it was on MySpace. If anybody has it please let me know.

  • No, Really Episode One - A 14-minute long video posted somewhere around 2007 or so. I have no information on what this video entails and I don't know if this video is in a MySpace archive anywhere on the internet.



Miscellaneous Things

  • Conley's World - Don't know what was mentioned here, probably just another "check this artist out" post.

And that's the list as it stands right now.
Hopefully one of these days some of these will get found and archived.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to planning v2 of my Rust remaster.


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