Description:Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime is a masterwork of American indie rock, a sprawling, 42-song explosion of terse, revolutionary rock & roll. Rifling through a kind of lurching punk-funk, this San Pedro, California, trio poses philosophical questions, mocks love-song clichés and Michael Jackson, covers CCR and Van Halen, andMinutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime is a masterwork of American indie rock, a sprawling, 42-song explosion of terse, revolutionary rock & roll. Rifling through a kind of lurching punk-funk, this San Pedro, California, trio poses philosophical questions, mocks love-song clichés and Michael Jackson, covers CCR and Van Halen, and gets drunk on "Jesus and Tequila"--all of it brought to life by the jazzy, popping bass of Mike Watt; the rifle-shot fills of drummer George Hurley, and the staccato guitar and impassioned cries of the late D. Boon, whose voice will forever insist: "No hope? See, that's what gives me guts." --David Cantwell... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Sst Records Release date : 25 October 1990 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0018861002828 UPC: 018861002828
""Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Truth?"
"Maybe Partying Will Help"
"The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts"
"Please Don't Be Gentle With Me"
"The World According to Nouns"
"Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"
"Theatre Is the Life of You"
"Shit from an Old Notebook""
"'"Our band could be your life," sing the Minutemen on "History Lesson - Part 2," and never did a lyric better articulate punk's Everyman aesthetic. Guitarist D. Boon and bassist Mike Watt push each other to fast, funny and agitated heights. Sadly, Boon would die a year later in a van accident." "
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