Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
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Free Music Notes for Double Nickels on the Dime
Free Music Review: "I stand for language." "I speak for truth."
Hit: 5 Stars
Simply the best.
I write these words on November 1st, the Feast-day of All Saints: and the late, great D. Boon surely is numbered among that high celestial jamfest.
There's really no proper way to fully describe what a superb explosion of energy and intelligence this record is... you just sort of have to experience it for yourself (part of which experience includes THINKING about it). This is one of the most humane rock records ever made -- an important achievement in a world of soulless corporate crap and gutless, mindless 'rebellion'. Do yourself a huge favor: hear this record, and watch yourself becoming a better human being as a result.
"Be glad, and dance -- for great is your reward in Heaven."
-- The Sermon on the Mount
Free Music Review: A record to be proud of
Hit: 5 Stars
I would say double nickles is the best double record ever recorded. I am not really a big fan of the superlative, but this record really is too much. To think that it is compared to Zen Arcade by Husker Du is a bit of a joke. While I do like Zen Arcade a whole bunch, it really cannot hold a candle to DNOTD. It is very interesting that they are both released on SST, in the same year, but Zen is wholly uneven (likely would have been a VERY powerful single record), vascillating between great and mediocre, whereas DNOTD barely steps down from excellence. That is a pretty amazing feat for a 45 song record. It is also amazing to think of how young the musicians were when they did this. Truly a record to be proud of, and one of the relatively few records of its genre that will still be listened to in 50 or more years (that is if we smarten up and are still actually here ouselves!)Free Music Review: The ONE (if you could only keep one album...)
Hit: 5 Stars
s p i e l ---this is IT. when i'm hunting for art, books, music, etc, i'm always searching for something that speaks to me, something with heart soul & life ---
this is one of those rare works that i always come back to - i burned out my cassette version years ago (you won't get this on the cd or album: on the tape the revving car engine is synchronized so that when you hear it, you can flip the tape and there's another - right before my favorite - A Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing.) They cover Van Halen & Steely Dan - these guys could cover any song and make it their own. They also introduced me to Raymond Pettibon's work - his drawings on the liner notes for this and other minutemen albums are amazing.
This album still blows me away - hilarious fierce ridiculous intelligent beautiful ALIVE - thank you Minutemen !!!
Free Music Review: First and Last Review
Hit: 5 Stars
This album stands alone as the most innovative, independent, truly spirited records made. How do I know this? None of your business. It's interesting to hear reviews from younger folks as they try and disseminate this album and compare it to their "vast" knowledge of what they consider punk. Punk, as most of us here know, doesn't exist anymore, in either music or spirit. It came and went. What is considered punk nowadays is but a marketing ploy. Korn? Gimme a break. Borrowed bass lines from Mike Watt. Loudness is not punk. Screaming is not punk. Speed is not punk. Angry words are not punk. Not selling albums is not punk. Punk is an archeological artifact. So no more present tense talk about it, OK? Just put this one on the turntable, sit
back and listen to 1984......car engines and all.
Free Music Review: Irate Footnote To a Great Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Of course this is an immortal album that could be filed under your genuine American Road Classic, an incomparable collection of songs by three dudes in a studio for two days in a marathon recording session. But wait. I have a problem with this CD. Why, SST, isn't the great song "Mr. Robot's Holy Orders" included on this? "Force fed, sifted, tin can, turn-handled, pop it. Pull toyyyyyy." It's a really rocking song, and it's much more essential that the conga jam that opens side 2.
They also took out a great cover of "Ain't Talkin' About Love" that you can hear their other take of on "Post Mersh vol. 3".
Still, you should definitely, definitely get this. Trade in your Beastie Boys CDs and get a real rock n' roll album that matters.