The Blue Meanies were formed in Carbondale, Illinois in 1989, where they emerged from the city's college party circuit in the early 1990s.
Although their personnel was continuously changing, The Blue Meanies' sound would remain consistent throughout their first four albums, Peace Love Groove (1991), Pave The World (1992), Kiss Your Ass Goodbye (1995), Full Throttle (1997), and the live record Sonic Documentation Of Exhibition And Banter (1998).
On December 22, 2004 the band played its first show in three years at Double Door with The Tossers and Cougars supporting.
The Blue Meanies reunited for Riot Fest 2006, an annual punk rock festival held in Chicago.
[4] On May 13, 2014, the organizers of Riot Fest and Blue Meanies revealed that the band would reunite and perform at the Chicago version of the 2014 festival.