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Blue Meanies (Illinois band)

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Blue Meanies are a punk rock band founded in 1990. They debuted in 1991 with the release of their first single, "Grandma Shampoo" c/w "Dickory Dock". This single would be the start of a lengthy discography and revolving lineup. Although their personnel was continually changing, The Meanies' sound would remain consistent as they released the albums Pave The World (1992), Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (1995), Full Throttle (1997), and the live Sonic Documentation Of Exhibition And Banter (1998). By the time they signed with MCA Records, the lineup of John Paul Camp (saxophone/ vocals), Sean Dolan (guitar), Jimmy Flame (trumpet/ vocals), Chaz Linde (keyboard/ vocal), Dave Lund (bass/ vocals), Billy Spunke (vocals/ megaphone), and Bob Trondson (drums) stuck together as a total of 22 musicians passed through the band since their formation. Their fifth album, The Post Wave, resulted in late 2000.

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The Blue Meanies are also strange little characters found in The Beatles' cartoon, Yellow Submarine.


The Blue Meanies was also the name of a group of software engineers at Apple Computer who worked on Apple's System 7 operating system. Their name came from the fact that they wrote down easily-implementable features on slips of blue paper.