Double Nickels on the Dime

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Double Nickels on the Dime
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Artist: Minutemen
Brand: MINUTEMEN
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sst Records
Soundtracks:
  1. D.'S Car Jam/Anxious Mo-Fo
  2. Theatre Is The Life Of You
  3. Viet Nam
  4. Cohesion
  5. It's Expected I'm Gone
  6. # 1 Hit Song
  7. Two Beads At The End
  8. Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?
  9. Don't Look Now
  10. Shit From An Old Notebook
  11. Nature Without Man
  12. One Reporter's Opinion
  13. Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
  14. Maybe Partying Will Help
  15. Toadies
  16. Retreat
  17. The Big Foist
  18. God Bows To Math
  19. Corona
  20. The Glory Of Man
  21. Take 5, D.
  22. My Heart And The Real World
  23. History Lesson - Part II
  24. You Need The Glory
  25. The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts
  26. West Germany
  27. The Politics Of Time
  28. Themselves
  29. Please Don't Be Gentle With Me
  30. Nothing Indeed
  31. No Exchange
  32. There Ain't Shit On T.V. Tonight
  33. This Ain't No Picnic
  34. Spillage
  35. Untitled Song For Latin America
  36. Jesus And Tequila
  37. June 16th
  38. Storm In My House
  39. Martin's Story
  40. Dr Wu
  41. The World According To Nouns
  42. Love Dance
  43. Three Car Jam

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Free Music Review: All I really need to know I learned from the minutemen
Hit: 5 Stars

In a way, it's ridiculous to write a Minutemen review, because anyone who reads it already knows them and loves them, and they're obscure enough that those who don't know them probably never will.
But people are irrational, and extraordinary music motivates them to do pointless stuff. And as a chance browser might scroll down the "double nickels" page, they'd see the same outlandish, superlative claims over and over "an incredible album!" "Best of the 80's" (I would agree) and so on.
The thing is, though, it really IS one of the best albums of all time, and one of the greatest BANDS of all time. The musicianship is incredibly good for a "punk band" (though most Minutemen afficionados would say that they went far beyond the genre, which they did)- super tight, super creative, heartwrenchingly soulful, intellectually challenging. The songs sweep stylistically from straight rock to jam rock to hardcore to jazz to avant garde to latin to flamenco classical, and each song nails it- a jazzman who lent an ear would say, "this is darn good jazz". A punker would say, "these guys can bring it". Andres Segovia would say "dang it, dawg, my homey D. Boon can really play(of course he'd say that!)".
But the thing about rock is that a rock band is more than just music- it's words, and an album cover, and tours, and who the guys were, and how much money they made, and the whole package of life, really. And there is no band that, through all these things, made a more powerful statement about themselves, about life, and about what's important in life, than the Minutemen. I learned more in my first year of college from the one word "Minutemen" than I did in all my classes, or anything. To whit:
About politics- Politics is subordinate to morality, and is a means, never an end. What matters is right and wrong, not right and left.
About music- Aim high. Music is a highest art form, even if it's punk rock. It deserves to be treated as such.
About how to do a cover song- Do two things- one, find a creative facet that makes the song special and acknowledge it and magnify it, to credit the original artist. Two, credit the song by giving some creative facet of your own to it. All the covers on the record do this, even CCR's "Don't look now"- perhaps Fogerty's harshest lesson to his audience. Putting it in a live setting, with Boon singing solo, and the sound of the audience not listening, and chatting, and ignoring the lessson, gives the song incredible force.
About friendship- Realize that true friendship is an incredible, beautiful gift. Acknowledge your friends, vocally, publicly support them, and tell them you love them, because you never know when they're going to die in a car crash.
About life in general- Live it like a work of art, as Ghandi said. Try your fricken damndest in everything you do. Aim high, yet at the same time, manage to remember the humor in life- take lightly what comes to you. And when you do live it right, don't worry about being a little proud of yourself. The reason Mike Watt is a little preachy nowadays is because he knows what he did with the Minutemen, and it's something that few, very few, ever come close to. And when he preaches, I listen, more than I would any Rolling Stone, for example- while Keith Richard was making zillions making a clown of himself, Watt and Boon and Hurley were living like one should live, making excellent music that mattered instead of excellent music that was merely fun and catchy. Whom do you respect more?
There is so much more to say about the Minutemen, but I'll leave it by saying that I feel I owe Boon, Watt, and Hurley a big thank you. They taught me a lot. And every time I play the record, I get reminded of the lessons, and I get to play a lot of air guitar at the same time.
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Genre: Popular Music
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Release Date: 19-SEP-1990
Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime is a masterwork of American indie rock, a sprawling, 42-song explosion of terse, revolutionary rock & roll. Rifling through a kind of lurching punk-funk, this San Pedro, California, trio poses philosophical questions, mocks love-song clichés and Michael Jackson, covers CCR and Van Halen, and gets drunk on "Jesus and Tequila"--all of it brought to life by the jazzy, popping bass of Mike Watt; the rifle-shot fills of drummer George Hurley, and the staccato guitar and impassioned cries of the late D. Boon, whose voice will forever insist: "No hope? See, that's what gives me guts." --David Cantwell

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