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Double Nickels On The Dime (CD)

By: The Minutemen (Artist)

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The Minutemen Artist Snapshot:

California's the Minutemen were one of the first bands to expand upon the limited possibilities of the hardcore punk genre. By combining the energy, attack, and attitude of punk rock with styles as far reaching as jazz, funk, and country, the trio built up a devoted following from 1980 on, while simultaneously influencing a huge array of bands. The Minutemen's career was cut tragically short when singer/guitarist D. Boon died in a car accident in 1985. Bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley went on to form fIREHOSE in 1987.

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DISC 1 for Double Nickels On The Dime (CD) Album By The Minutemen (Artist)
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   Big Foist, The
18   God Bows To Math
19   Corona
20   Glory Of Man, The
21   Take 5, D.
22   My Heart And The Real World
23   History Lesson-Part II
24   You Need The Glory
25   Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts, The
26   West Germany
27   Politics Of Time, The
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   World According To Nouns, The
42   Love Dance
43   Three Car Jam
 

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Review

Spin (5/01, p.110) - Ranked #22 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Total art, total activism for 45 bite-size songs...melting jazz, folk and CCR....Funnier than ZEN ARCADE and looser than LET IT BE."
Alternative Press (8/01, p.112) - Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums" - "...Gang Of Four-like funk, savagely jazzy chops and oblique poetry..."
Mojo (Publisher) (3/01, p.115) - "...[They] inadvertently patented and perfected jazzcore: short, writhing bursts of emotion, fun and fury, dominated by Mike Watt's flailing bass chops....DOUBLE NICKELS was their landmark..."

Title Note

The CD reissue of DOUBLE NICKELS ON A DIME includes 43 songs. Two songs have been deleted from the original LP to insure playback on all CD players.

The Minutemen: D. Boon (vocals, guitar); Mike Watt (vocals, bass); George Hurley (drums, percussion).

Principally recorded at Radio Tokyo, Venice, California in November 1983 and April 1984. Originally issued as a 2-LP set.

This sprawling double-length release is the Minutemen's undisputed high-water mark, and one of the seminal platters of the post-punk, pre-grunge years. It perfectly encapsulates the strengths shown in their early works, then ups the ante. DOUBLE NICKELS runs the gamut from hardcore funk and honky-tonk to vaguely avant-garde experimentation, jazzy workouts, and a Steely Dan cover.

The level of songwriting has also been turned up several notches. The less-is-more aesthetic is still in effect--most songs last two minutes or so, and the essential elements of scratchy funk guitar and a hard and nimble rhythm section remain. But the canvas is more varied than before, with moments of oddball humor, songs about indoor plumbing, bizarro instrumentals, bits of gentle acoustic guitar. The group plays with its characteristic gusto, infusing songs like "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" and "The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts" with glorious rage. And d. Boon takes aim at such targets as the banality of advertising ("The Big Foist") and the hell of working for the man ("This Ain't No Picnic," one of their best) with articulate bluntness. One of many gems is a funkified live take of Creedence's "Don't Look Now."

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