Minutemen - Post Mersh 1
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Music CD Cover Artist: Minutemen Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1990-10-25 Music Label: Sst Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Post Mersh 1 Album
Free Music Review: Sounded great in 1981, but I feel different about it today
Hit: 3 Stars
This CD is a compilation of the Minutemen's first two 1980s LPs on the SST label. There was no doubt in my mind about the genius of Mike Watt, D. Boone, and George Hurley at the time this music was released. In 1981, no one in the music world was blending leftist political song lyrics with ultra-short jazz-punk song stylings like these guys. In addition, the Minutemen were wonderful bearers of a post-Vietnam/anti-Cold War revolutionary spirit. Their songs seemed to stand for justice, equality, honesty, and peace for all. And they wrote about these topics in a very unique, obscure way. Each song was like a little puzzle to figure out. "Son of a martyr, son of father/You can look inside you, you can look inside me." What the heck was Mike Watt talking about there? I don't know, but it was fun trying to figure out. Like the Dead Kennedys, the Minutemen were a political/metaphysical education to my fifteen year old mind. However, upon listening to this music in 2001, I now have the sense that it sounds "trite" and "above reality." It has hard to put my finger on why this is; perhaps it's because I have gotten older and more discriminating in my tastes; perhaps it's because I've become conditioned to better music production techniques over the last twenty years. But whatever the case, I just feel annoyed when I listen to these CDs today. They sound amphetamine-fueled, screechy, and grating to me. All in all, I think if you have not heard the Minutemen, "What Makes a Man Start Fires?" and "the punch line" are the place to start. However, keep in mind the context that this music was written and I think it will sound and play better.