Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
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Free Music Review: Best album of the 80's.
Hit: 5 Stars
Though overlooked, this is the masterpiece of the 80's. I must agree albums like London Calling, The Queen Is Dead, Up On The Sun, I Can't Stop It & Zen Arcade are classic albums, none of them have the spirit of this album. 45 songs (43 on the cd) all delivered in the space of a regular cd (or double lp) and absolutely no gristle, it's all meat here.To me, this is the true definition of "punk." Much like London Calling, it might not be 3 power chords at blazing speed, and screamed vocals, it's something more important. Intelligent music with intelligent lyrics. Punk isn't so much a sound, it's more an attitude/feeling.
I love the way the music here doesn't fit into any certain genre. Is it funk? Is it hadcore? Is it jazz? Is it blues? Is it folk? Is it country? It's all of that and more, usually in the same song.
The only thing I didn't like, was the band's cover of the classic Van Halen song "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" & their original "Mr. Robot's Holy Orders" were left off of the cd (to fascilitate a single cd, I'd imagine), but if you can't find the vinyl, then the cd is the next best thing. Either way you go, you will not be disappointed.
And to kidpunkrock182, thanks man. I really needed that. Best laugh I've had in ages! :D
Free Music Review: Best of the Best
Hit: 5 Stars
The minutemen were certainly an anomaly in the 80s punk scene. While the majority of their peers were concerned with simple three-chord thrash and dedicated themselves to fulfilling a plangent sound that rendered the most of them indiscernible from one another, the Minutemen were incredibly individualistic. They divagated from the tonsured standard that others had been rapt in; they coalesced an authoritative adeptness of their instruments with the caustic wit of their lyrics to become one of the seminal punk bands of the era. While somewhat an aberration from usual punk music (especially that of the 80s), they exemplified the viscid attitude of the music. Mike Watt's bass playing and D.Boon's sing-speak vocals, combined with a rapidly acute percussion section, became the core of the Minutemen. Always entertaining, occasionally intelligent, amazingly funny, but never didactic (as was the tendency of most bands back then), the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime is one of the greatest punk records of the decade. Their assiduously self-assertive legacy confidently places them in the echelons of such contemporaries as Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Fear, and the Dead Kennedys. A must for any 80s punk fan.Free Music Review: Stop with the categories already!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is not the greatest punk album of all time. It's not fair to these guys to limit this album to be the best in some category as limiting as 'punk.' Leave punk as the relic that it is with the likes of amateurs like the Sex Pistols. 'Double Nickels' transcends punk. This album is up there with the Beatles' 'Revolver,' Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side,' Johnny Cash's 'Folsom Prison,' Zeppelin's 'Zoso,' etc. Along with Sonic Youth's 'Daydream Nation,' this is the best album of the 80s. What strikes me most about this album is how stripped down and tight these guys are. No effects pedals, very little distortion, no overdubs, or layering, just three guys making impossibly brilliant music. I didn't even get this album until I was nearly 30 and way past my days of being a big punk fan. I don't know how this got past me for so long.
I might add that Mike Watt's bass playing on this album inspired me at 30 years old to start playing bass after several years of farting around on guitar. If you're an aspiring bass player, you NEED this album. And on the days when you think you're getting pretty good, put this disk in and be humbled.
Free Music Review: I'll have it played on my deathbed
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought this album in late 1985 and managed to see them on december 30th 1985 at Al's Bar in L.A. I saw them play 6 times, even an acoustic set. I saw them in small places, like Toe's Tavern in Redondo Beach. I saw them with a substitute drummer. I saw them with their horn section. I would have played with them in the summer of 1985 except that I was in Switzerland. This is a great album, one of the best of all time. I used to have the whole thing memorized. It used to give me a rash on my arms listening to it because I'd get so psyched. It really shreds. It's a work of outstanding musicianship. They are super tight (and were just as tight in person-even when Mike would break a string and they'd find something to play while he changed strings). Back then I promised myself that on my deathbed I would have the album playing. Listening to it is like drinking 10 double espressos. You have to listen through to the end.They would have been the important band of the 80s if more people had been listening. Unfortunately, the only band that came close to them was fIREHOSE and they're 2/3s the Minutemen.
Free Music Review: It Kicks!
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember the video for "This Ain't No Picnic". It featured old war movie footage of Ronald Reagan interspersed and at the end he dropped bombs on The Minutemen from an airplane. The video was a hoot and had to be the shortest one I've ever seen. The Minuteman aesthetic and DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME in particular (I confess to having heard very little of their other stuff) was, for me, like a big "SCREW YOU" to Reaganomics and all the other accompanying garbage that dominated the mid-eighties American landscape. Though they are classified as hardcore punk, the music owes more to funk. These guys were tight and D. Boon's snaky leads and notebook poetry dominate the album which is a remarkably dense affair (no surprise considering it boasts over 40 tracks!). They don't bludgeon but they do rock hard and leave plenty of open spaces and, of course, keep their numbers short (or as the late Mr. Boon says, "We jam econo!"). Favorites?... The aforementioned "...Picnic", "History Lesson-Part II",...Hell, I like the whole album and SO WILL YOU!