Sadly, this would be the last Minutemen album released while Boon was alive; divided into a "Boon side" and a "Watt side," the album still exhibits plenty of fire and humor,...
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Sadly, this would be the last Minutemen album released while Boon was alive; divided into a "Boon side" and a "Watt side," the album still exhibits plenty of fire and humor,...
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D. Boon's death in December 1985 was one of rock's most tragic occurrences. And, a decade later, I find that it still affects the way I listen to this, the "final" Minutemen...
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A posthumous release, compiled after the formation of fiREHOSE, this set (originally two LPs) was collected after fans voted on their favorite scattered Minutemen tracks. ...
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Before they had even released 3-Way Tie for Last in the fall of 1985, the Minutemen had blocked out plans for their next album, which was to be a sprawling three-LP set...
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What Makes a Man Start Fires? marked a real step forward for the Minutemen, and while Double Nickels on the Dime was where the group would reach their peak, there were...
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Not a follow-up to Double Nickels as much as it was an interesting assortment of odds and ends recorded during the band's infancy and pre-Minutemen days when they were...
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Picking up where the first volume left off, Post-Mersh, Vol. 2 contains the Minutemen's 1983 Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat LP and the 1985 Project Mersh EP. ~...
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The Minutemen's Post-Mersh is a valuable series, collecting all of the group's official discography, with the exception of Double Nickels on the Dime, 3-Way Tie For Last,...
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The third and final volume of Post-Mersh crams an extraordinary amount of music on one-disc, compiling the EPs Paranoid Time (1980), Bean-Spill (1982), and Tour-Spiel...
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"I got it! We'll have them write hit songs!" some nameless record company executive says in the cover painting to the Minutemen's 1985 EP Project Mersh, and that joke covers...
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The Minutemen had already come up with a sound as distinctive as anything to come out of the American punk underground -- lean, fractured, and urgent -- with their debut...
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If What Makes a Man Start Fires? was a remarkable step forward from the Minutemen's promising debut album, The Punch Line, then Double Nickels on the Dime was a quantum leap...
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The Minutemen's debut EP Paranoid Time is a startlingly coherent set of primal minimalism -- a cross between Californian hardcore punk and the succinct experimentalism of...
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The Minutemen may have come out of the same California hardcore scene that produced Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Fear, but they not only bore little resemblance to their...
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Along with such bands as Black Flag, Minor Threat, and the Circle Jerks, the Minutemen were one of the prominent underground punk bands of the early '80s, who helped pave...
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