Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
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Free Music Review: Our Band Could be Your Life -- this record changed mine
Hit: 5 Stars
Read the other reviews here. Do you notice a trend? How many other albums on Amazon are called the BEST? There are many records that people love, but how many are called the BEST? That group is a narrow pantheon of the most beloved records. Records that stand beyond genre and categorization. Records that changed lives. This is one of those records.
This record changed my life when it came out on vinyl and I recently bought it on CD so I could listen to it in my car. The record rocks. It's full of great riffs, funky grooves, and thought provoking lyrics. It feels effortless and sounds like it was recorded over the course of a year at a high-end studio (instead of in a few weeks at a small recording studio).
I just read "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azzerad and he has a great chapter on the Minutemen. I'd recommend the book to anyone interested in the legacy of the late 80's indie rock scene.
Get this record -- it's great. It might change your life.
Free Music Review: Blows away all of today's limp, soggy music!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
DOUBLE NICKELS ON THE DIME ('84) stuffs 43 short songs on two LP's or one CD. The album meshes quite a variety of musical styles: punk, funk, spoken bits, jazzy instrumentation, folk, and even polka!
The MINUTEMEN accomplish this masterpiece album because of its three outstanding musicians - D. BOON (vox, guitar), MIKE WATT (bass, vox), and GEORGE HURLEY (drums, percussion), as well as other guest musicians.
Key tracks include: VIETNAM, POLITICAL SONG FOR MICHAEL JACKSON TO SING, CORONA (*note: The theme music for "JACKASS"), HISTORY LESSON PT. 2, JESUS & TEQUILA, DO YOU WANT NEW WAVE OR DO YOU WANT THE TRUTH?, MAYBE PARTYING WILL HELP.
If you stack this album up against any/all of today's weak & soggy music (i.e. video/pop hits), then you'll discover an album that stands head-and-shoulders above this unfortunate lull in current musical trends...This album more than makes up for today's lack of creativity in most forms of music. Buy it - try it!!!!!
Free Music Review: Best American LP of the last 20 years?
Hit: 5 Stars
If there was only one record I could take to a desert island, this'd probably be it. Not only would I get 48 songs to choose from, but it's also one of the very few records I've listened to roughly over a 1,000 times and never gotten sick of. The VU comparisons are spot on; not musically of course, but in terms of influence and their criminal lack of recognition within the general rock audience, there's certainly a parallel there. On DNOTD, the Minutemen hit their peak; 48 songs that encompass life: passion, dedication, love, hate, rage and joy. No other band on earth have touched a nerve the way they did: D., Mike and George were an organic unit that hit a jam like their lives depended on it, with a sense of compassion, rage and black humour that still has me raising my fist in unity when I wack on this platter. In my opinion, this is STILL the best album of the '80s and will hopefully one day get its due as a classic of its - or any - period.Free Music Review: An Eighties Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
"Mr. Narrator/This is Bob Dylan to me/My story could be his song/I am his soldier-child." --D. BoonI sadly remember 1984, how the bands that made up the great LA punk scene began to break up or break out, often experimenting with heavy-metal or other non-punk styles. But the Minutemen had never been punk purists, and were able to keep doing what they did very, very well. Here's their masterpiece. You wouldn't think there was any middle ground between hardcore and jazz, but they found it. Yet they were totally unique, if somewhat challenging. True to the name, most of the cuts clock in at 1 to 2 minutes. My faves: "Corona", "Fire in My House" (from H. Rollins), "Jesus and Tequila", "This Ain't No Picnic", and the Michael Jackson "parody". To bad the Van Halen cover is missing (to fit the single CD). Still, you need this album!
Free Music Review: timeless classic of punk rock, without one punk song on it
Hit: 5 Stars
True originals, as most of the reviews on here seem to get. This is their 'famous' record, a double lp seemingly made in response to Husker Du's Zen Arcade. Both bands would diverge from 'punk rock' and define it by creating their own sound.
The minutemen were jazz inflected, a 3 part outrage. Each musician was so unique and seemed to carve their own song into the music. I am privileged to have seen them and 1-2 years later 'Firehose' without D Boon.
'History lesson' is the story of the minutemen from D Boons eyes. Such a sad sweet song about loving their band and how their lives have turned out because of punk rock, made heartbreaking by D Boon's death. He could not have written a more perfect coda to his music and life, if had written this one from beyond the grave.
It is not possible to listen to Storm in my House loud enough, I have tried.