I went and saw the Blake Babies open up for fIREHOSE and during the show, the female bass player said: "I can't even play this thing knowing that Mike Watt is in the audience." The guy standing shoulder to shoulder with me was Watt himself who said: "You're doing great." Watt graciously chatted with me after their set and then bolted for his own show. There were no "rock stars" in that scene. They were like us. It was a brief and golden era, and it will never be back again.
The "female bass player" of the Blake Babies is the well-known and successful musician Juliana Hatfield. Watt played on her debut solo album Hey Babe, released in 1992 (the track "Get Off Your Knees" but it's not on Spotify or UA-cam for some reason). Juliana is still going strong, currently doing online gigs every month due to the pandemic, and baring her soul. The last gig she played she talked about her anxiety playing live, which your anecdote touches upon. What year did you see fIREHOSE/Blake Babies? You're right about the late 80s and early 90s being a "golden era" for music. Right now, music is a pale shadow of what it used to be. I saw fIREHOSE in, I think '91 (Flyin' the Flannel tour), and they totally rocked. I wished I'd have seen Minutemen, but alas it wasn't to be.
@@jessegpresley Freda goes missing before a gig and Georgie stands in for her? Ouch - that must've hurt. I wonder what happened to her? Good video, though. It's amazing what turns up on UA-cam these days. I discovered Blake Babies (and fIREHOSE) in 1989, but never got to see BBs live. I saw Juliana play solo the following year, though. Music from this period is sooo good. It's actually keeping me going through this pandemic - especially Minutemen. [thumbs up]
you are so right bro, no rockstar bullshit(wanna puke listening to Alice Cooper brag about his fucking shit golf game while playing worn-out crap!! I hate golfers(but not you if you happen to golf, hahahaa) Guys like Watt, and Henry Rollins in the crowd who had no hangups about talking to anyone who wasn't acting the dick, just fucking unrepeatable in music history; bro, we are part of the rock-n-roll meltdown that killed the genre's ability to produce good music after, i don't know, 2004 or 5? We got boned with bubblegum "pop punk" for our hearty efforts. I am so glad I got chased, jumped, fought, accused, for my SoCal punk. Bros in arms my friend, thanks for the story. cheers.
It's as if these were songs made for the future - it doesn't sound as if it could have possibly come out in '81 or '95 or 2008. Yet it sounds as if it could have existed at any time in the last 45 years. That is the very definition of timelessness.
@Ondrya Wolfson I believe you can come up with examples of contemporary artists that sound kinda angular kinda funky kinda punky, but you absolutely cannot name 100 (or 100s) of bands that sound like this. Most things close to this from the 70s/80s took their music in more of a dance punk direction, wrote a chorus or two, stretched their songs out to 5+ minutes, and often had singers who could sing. Or they just made jazz. This is something else. This is militantly anti-imperial working class imagist poetry set against this sort of spastic motorik. It enters at full steam, makes a bold claim, leaves an impression, and then it wants to talk about something else and simply can't calm down. It sounds like a manic episode as experienced specifically by people living in post-war boom times suburban America but reading the news and looking around and just feeling wrong about it all, like, "this isn't fair to to the downtrodden people of the world and it also isn't fair to ME!" Pop Group, Public Image, Liquid Liquid, whatever, none of that shit does what the Minutemen do. They can't. They aren't as free, they aren't as open, they aren't as personal, and they aren't as good.
I have listened to Minutemen more than any other rock band. This album, hundreds of times, and it never ever gets boring, or old. It astounds me how fresh it remains, and how many listens it bears. I can rightly say I revere Minutemen. Bless ya.
Yeah Charles, talented and finely-honed musicians without the ego who are finally getting the attentions from the masses. Hey, I was late to really get into them too; but when I did, it bordered on having to go to anti-Minutemen tunes in my head meetings under some kind of twelve San Pedro steps. They were representative of their environment, and way ahead of most punks like me who were impressed with the intelligence of punk without some of the hardcore hardworking musicianship that the Minutemen are still impressing young cats with. They are drug-like in the need to hear certain tunes(General George A. Custer, stuck like a porcupine with Indian arrows, he DIED WITH SHIT IN HIS PANTS [HAHAHAHA]). classy and classic. cheers.
After alot of deliberation and reflection I do think that this is probably my favorite Minutemen release. Theres just something about it that is so punchy, catchy, and awesome. It is kinda similar to paranoid time in that way, but everything is turned up to 10. The guitar, bass, and drums collide like the paint on the cover to make a cohesive album that is just amazing all the way through every time i listen to it. Im glad that Boon, Watt, and Hurley were able to make this music, even if it was cut short.
Thx for posting. Double Nickels seems to get more hype than this record but Punchline is hands-down the best minutemen album and one of the best post-punk albums ever made imho
Yeah it might be my fave minutemen album too (or most listened to). It's very direct and still has a foot in hardcore when the genre was still very new and not still super generic
These guys are, and were, the best damn "if punk, then what," band in all of Southern CaliforniA. Wish I had given myself more exposure to them at the same time I was obsessed with TSOL, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, etc. I guess there is only so much time to absorb the meaning or meaningless messages with any aplomb. I give myself some credit for buying the "My First Bells" cassette in about '85'; damn, I was so hooked on that cassette; I parroted the lyrics to the point that I can nearly repeat verbatim today! I was not fortunate to see them in their best days. Glad songs like Corona on Jackass have exposed others to their mystic heights. Bad ass fucking band, no question! Cheers.
Used to play "My First Bells" tape in my car constantly but lost all my tapes in a fire. Haven't heard this since. Thanks. Need to get all their pre-Nickels stuff on vinyl.
Every few years I remember to look for "My Fist Bells", which was a tape only release that seems to be forgotten. The fact that Mushroom 1307 has faithfully recreated it in digital form is a fucking incredible blessing.
shit, johnlocust, my "First Bells" cassette practically "caught" fire in the deck I played the looming falling sky-shit out of that tape after I discovered the true nature of the Minutedudes. At 57.5, still eat 'em like Tiger Tony's flakes. cheers.
And today (Dec. 22, 2020) marks the 35th anniversary of d. Boone’s death at the age of 27 in a traffic accident. The axel fell off of his van while he was resting in the back. For punk rock in Los Angeles, that is the day the music died. Mike Watt did amazing work with fIREHOSE (and other bands) after that, but it definitely broke a part of his heart forever.
as soon as i hear the drum fill leading into "search" i get chills. a top track by by one of my fave bands. these guys froth up a wild and great sound on this record. god bless them and RIP D Boon.
Superb album. Their music still really fits the times in 2020. Eternal shelf life. One of a kind band and forever relevant. RIP D. Boon and thanks fellas for all the great music.
I have a lot of respect for Mitch Mitchell...he's easily one of the best drummers of all time. Bonham, too. But they still don't rise to Hurley level. And while the Puppets "Up On the Sun" is the best album in the SST catalog...because it's the BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME...taken as a whole, based on the overall quality of their entire output, Minutemen are the best group of all time. Jimi Hendrix Experience and Led Zeppelin are obviously in the same conversation, but the visceral mania and CONSTANT "On-ness" of this band is hard to overcome. These guys never let up...they never rest. Luckily, we can listen to all three. Seriously, these guys should be in the RRHOF. Like...YESTERDAY.
I'm not going to say you're wrong for saying "Up On the Sun" is the best album in SST's catalog, but I will say that's a very bold statement to make about the label that also released "My War"
@@gnartothecore a lot of people don't fuck with my war apparently, i've heard some people say all the rollins era stuff was their worst stuff. i disagree but i get it
Hurley's (jokingly?) said when they recorded this he didn't quite know how he was able to pull off some of these "rope tricks" I'm gonna chalk it up to years of prac in his shed. I've played through this a few times, it's a workout :)
I always wondered how Husker Du got bigger, when the Minutemen had so much more color to their sound. Also, funny, smart, and great players. Too political?
I hear ya. Huskers had a more conventional sound and their songs fit more easily into a standard rock format. The Minutemen hinted at that and achieved it with Project: Mersh and Three-Way Tie For Last but then D. Boon died leaving a lot of us wondering what kind of album they’d put out next?
I remember back in 2008, maybe 2007, waiting at a bus stop & listening to this album. It was so different from anything else I listened to & I was an instant fan. I replayed it over & over so many times.
And today (Dec. 22, 2020) marks the 35th anniversary of d. Boone’s death at the age of 27 in a traffic accident. The axel fell off of his van while he was resting in the back. For punk rock in Los Angeles, that is the day the music died. Mike Watt did amazing work with fIREHOSE (and other bands) after that, but it definitely broke a part of his heart forever.
Hey again Elmo! Yeah man, I remember watching video about that accident. I was a "big" truck driver for a crap company called Swift in the early 2000's. The area he went off the road on I-10 before the state line at Quartzite had a strange effect on me; I'm seriously thinking that there is/was a permanent Native American curse on that section of road; the westbound side used to lull me into a snooze as I was rolling downhill on my way to Wilmington ports with my container trailer. Always the same exact mile markers found me dreaming as I rolled with other drivers with 40,000 to 80,000 pounds; I could drink coffee so strong you could stand a spoon in, and still, risked dying or killing with narcoleptic nirvana, UNTIL I WOKE UP SHIT, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING DUDE, WAKE THE FUCK UP. OH MAN, peace.
This is really freaky... I know all these songs, but haven't heard them in at least 30 years, and didn't realize it was The Minutemen. It's like one flashback after another. But I don't remember owning this album or ever being into the Minutemen. Maybe a friend had a tape back in the day? (there was lots of punk mix tapes floating around) so, I'm not sure what I'm remembering. Anyway, hearing it now, I think I didn't give them enough attention back then - this is really ahead of its time.
It's their entire first album, but the sentiment is appreciated. Go check out the rest of their work. Double Nickels on the Dime (1984) is their masterpiece.
Bought a used cassette of "My First Bells" (SST compilation of everything before "Double Nickels") in the late 80's and didn't get it at all. It sounded like a buncha noise to me and I promptly forgot about it. Coupla years later, i get my first car with a shitty cassette deck and owning not a lot of tapes, I start playing it. Still don't get it, but it sounds cool driving around Portland in the summertime in a beat up '72 Chevy Nova. Got to the point where I COULDN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT. Guess what I'm trying to say is that the Minutemen are an acquired taste, but once you get what they're actually up to, they make perfect sense.
I love rich sounding music I did not expect to hear it from them with this titles. So that's how it is called by BUNDS - Punchline: The Stru ggle!👋👐 Fuego! Charge.......!
Deon Nungaray Mike Watt was a god no doubt but, I don't think he would have been as much if it weren't for the creatively superb drum playing of George Hurley. Listen closely, especially on Double Nickels, nothing short of brilliant.
@@goodboysic Hurley was a superhero, but I think Watt was one of a kind. He invented something new with these early Minutemen recordings. Like a 2-guitar band, but better because of the isolation across registers.
Double Nickels is their magnum opus, but this one will always be my favorite. Calling it a "full-length album" is a stretch, though, since the total playing time is about 15 minutes.
goodboysic It does. Sometimes I totally missed lyrics and other times, I didn't even hear them. I used to think one song was talking about stopping an ocean, though the lyric was "Old Showstoppers"...
Austin Lucas Tell me about it. As a kid I thought the line in Joy to the world was..."Joy to the bishops and the priests will see, joy for you and me. actually Joy to the fishes and the deep blue sea
goodboysic I'm beginning to wonder how much of TV that I remember from when I was four years old is real and how much is just remembering it from the perspective of a 4-year-old. Somehow I managed to think a Scooby-Doo episode was a bit different than I ended up seeing it as later on.
Austin Lucas Dude!! (sorry to use such antiquated slang), I completely know what you mean. Sometimes I remember an episode of a show I saw and liked when I was young. I mean distinctly remember. Then I get the DVD set of it, watch it, and make the realization that I actually was remembering like three separate episodes as one. Some shows I even doubt really existed as well. Maybe you can help me with one, I don't know how old you are but, here goes... Late sixties/early seventies, black and white cartoon, the setting was in space, the central character was a round glass space helmet with a little alien head inside, but the body was just this moving squiggle of energy. Any ideas? Cheers
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I went and saw the Blake Babies open up for fIREHOSE and during the show, the female bass player said: "I can't even play this thing knowing that Mike Watt is in the audience." The guy standing shoulder to shoulder with me was Watt himself who said: "You're doing great." Watt graciously chatted with me after their set and then bolted for his own show. There were no "rock stars" in that scene. They were like us. It was a brief and golden era, and it will never be back again.
Watt is that kinda dude. Love him
The "female bass player" of the Blake Babies is the well-known and successful musician Juliana Hatfield. Watt played on her debut solo album Hey Babe, released in 1992 (the track "Get Off Your Knees" but it's not on Spotify or UA-cam for some reason). Juliana is still going strong, currently doing online gigs every month due to the pandemic, and baring her soul. The last gig she played she talked about her anxiety playing live, which your anecdote touches upon. What year did you see fIREHOSE/Blake Babies? You're right about the late 80s and early 90s being a "golden era" for music. Right now, music is a pale shadow of what it used to be. I saw fIREHOSE in, I think '91 (Flyin' the Flannel tour), and they totally rocked. I wished I'd have seen Minutemen, but alas it wasn't to be.
@@malloid Probably a few days before/after this. George sits in for Blake Babies MIA drummer... ua-cam.com/video/i9tjRCZXLA8/v-deo.html
@@jessegpresley Freda goes missing before a gig and Georgie stands in for her? Ouch - that must've hurt. I wonder what happened to her? Good video, though. It's amazing what turns up on UA-cam these days. I discovered Blake Babies (and fIREHOSE) in 1989, but never got to see BBs live. I saw Juliana play solo the following year, though. Music from this period is sooo good. It's actually keeping me going through this pandemic - especially Minutemen. [thumbs up]
you are so right bro, no rockstar bullshit(wanna puke listening to Alice Cooper brag about his fucking shit golf game while playing worn-out crap!! I hate golfers(but not you if you happen to golf, hahahaa) Guys like Watt, and Henry Rollins in the crowd who had no hangups about talking to anyone who wasn't acting the dick, just fucking unrepeatable in music history; bro, we are part of the rock-n-roll meltdown that killed the genre's ability to produce good music after, i don't know, 2004 or 5? We got boned with bubblegum "pop punk" for our hearty efforts. I am so glad I got chased, jumped, fought, accused, for my SoCal punk. Bros in arms my friend, thanks for the story. cheers.
It's as if these were songs made for the future - it doesn't sound as if it could have possibly come out in '81 or '95 or 2008. Yet it sounds as if it could have existed at any time in the last 45 years. That is the very definition of timelessness.
It's totally true, man. That's one of the things I like about the Minutemen so much - their music was so ahead of its time, and completely timeless.
absolutely. thats why they are the greatest rnr band in history.
Jawbreaker would like to know your location
@Ondrya Wolfson I believe you can come up with examples of contemporary artists that sound kinda angular kinda funky kinda punky, but you absolutely cannot name 100 (or 100s) of bands that sound like this. Most things close to this from the 70s/80s took their music in more of a dance punk direction, wrote a chorus or two, stretched their songs out to 5+ minutes, and often had singers who could sing. Or they just made jazz. This is something else. This is militantly anti-imperial working class imagist poetry set against this sort of spastic motorik. It enters at full steam, makes a bold claim, leaves an impression, and then it wants to talk about something else and simply can't calm down. It sounds like a manic episode as experienced specifically by people living in post-war boom times suburban America but reading the news and looking around and just feeling wrong about it all, like, "this isn't fair to to the downtrodden people of the world and it also isn't fair to ME!" Pop Group, Public Image, Liquid Liquid, whatever, none of that shit does what the Minutemen do. They can't. They aren't as free, they aren't as open, they aren't as personal, and they aren't as good.
@@matthewmendez9093 well fuckin said my friend
I have listened to Minutemen more than any other rock band. This album, hundreds of times, and it never ever gets boring, or old. It astounds me how fresh it remains, and how many listens it bears. I can rightly say I revere Minutemen. Bless ya.
Yeah Charles, talented and finely-honed musicians without the ego who are finally getting the attentions from the masses. Hey, I was late to really get into them too; but when I did, it bordered on having to go to anti-Minutemen tunes in my head meetings under some kind of twelve San Pedro steps. They were representative of their environment, and way ahead of most punks like me who were impressed with the intelligence of punk without some of the hardcore hardworking musicianship that the Minutemen are still impressing young cats with. They are drug-like in the need to hear certain tunes(General George A. Custer, stuck like a porcupine with Indian arrows, he DIED WITH SHIT IN HIS PANTS [HAHAHAHA]). classy and classic. cheers.
1. Search - @0:00
2. Tension - @0:54
3. Games - @2:13
4. Boiling - @3:17
5. Disguises - @4:15
6. The Struggle - @5:03
7. Monument - @5:43
8. Ruins - @6:35
9. Issued - @7:25
10. The Punch Line - @8:05
11. Song For El Salvador - @8:46
12. History Lesson - @9:18
13. Fanatics - @9:56
14. No Parade - @10:27
15. Straight Jacket - @11:19
16. Gravity - @12:19
17. Warfare - @13:15
18. Static - @14:10
Original comment by @TheFunnelWebb
thanks!
After alot of deliberation and reflection I do think that this is probably my favorite Minutemen release. Theres just something about it that is so punchy, catchy, and awesome. It is kinda similar to paranoid time in that way, but everything is turned up to 10. The guitar, bass, and drums collide like the paint on the cover to make a cohesive album that is just amazing all the way through every time i listen to it. Im glad that Boon, Watt, and Hurley were able to make this music, even if it was cut short.
1. Search - 0:00
2. Tension - 0:54
3. Games - 2:13
4. Boiling - 3:17
5. Disguises - 4:15
6. The Struggle - 5:03
7. Monument - 5:43
8. Ruins - 6:35
9. Issued - 7:25
10. The Punch Line - 8:05
11. Song For El Salvador - 8:46
12. History Lesson - 9:18
13. Fanatics - 9:56
14. No Parade - 10:27
15. Straight Jacket - 11:19
16. Gravity - 12:19
17. Warfare - 13:15
18. Static - 14:10
And tear down the barrier that separates the caste
Thx for posting. Double Nickels seems to get more hype than this record but Punchline is hands-down the best minutemen album and one of the best post-punk albums ever made imho
Double Nickels is definitely a longer trip, but length doesn't mean anything in punk.
makes a man start fires is niiiice
yeah wmamsf is my favorite.
What's Dave Coulier's?
Yeah it might be my fave minutemen album too (or most listened to). It's very direct and still has a foot in hardcore when the genre was still very new and not still super generic
I just discovered this band and theres so much material and songs to listen to, its all brand new to me!
CouchCutter lucky you!
welcome aboard!
Check out fIREHOSE !
welcome to the new obsession, would you like to go to a anti-Minutemen tune in your head meeting today? cheers.
These guys are, and were, the best damn "if punk, then what," band in all of Southern CaliforniA. Wish I had given myself more exposure to them at the same time I was obsessed with TSOL, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, etc. I guess there is only so much time to absorb the meaning or meaningless messages with any aplomb. I give myself some credit for buying the "My First Bells" cassette in about '85'; damn, I was so hooked on that cassette; I parroted the lyrics to the point that I can nearly repeat verbatim today! I was not fortunate to see them in their best days. Glad songs like Corona on Jackass have exposed others to their mystic heights. Bad ass fucking band, no question! Cheers.
Watt, Boon, Hurley. Red, Yellow, Blue. Flesh, Muscle, Bone
Used to play "My First Bells" tape in my car constantly but lost all my tapes in a fire. Haven't heard this since. Thanks. Need to get all their pre-Nickels stuff on vinyl.
Every few years I remember to look for "My Fist Bells", which was a tape only release that seems to be forgotten. The fact that Mushroom 1307 has faithfully recreated it in digital form is a fucking incredible blessing.
shit, johnlocust, my "First Bells" cassette practically "caught" fire in the deck I played the looming falling sky-shit out of that tape after I discovered the true nature of the Minutedudes. At 57.5, still eat 'em like Tiger Tony's flakes. cheers.
Maybe 35 years have passsed since I am lucky to know this great band. Germany. Boone was already 5 years dead when I bought this album. Fascinating!
Punk rock at its finest. D Boon, gone too soon.
And today (Dec. 22, 2020) marks the 35th anniversary of d. Boone’s death at the age of 27 in a traffic accident. The axel fell off of his van while he was resting in the back. For punk rock in Los Angeles, that is the day the music died. Mike Watt did amazing work with fIREHOSE (and other bands) after that, but it definitely broke a part of his heart forever.
I was lucky to have seen them on one of their last tours. What a great live player Boon was!
@@elmoblatch9787 They were the best band in the world at the time.
Can't believe the gigantic WTF in my mind right now.
A top ten for me.
Just rediscovered this band after seeing Mike Watt with X at the Roxy. Now I can't stop listening to them.
as soon as i hear the drum fill leading into "search" i get chills. a top track by by one of my fave bands. these guys froth up a wild and great sound on this record. god bless them and RIP D Boon.
Love playing that fill
Yep. My favorite opening track ever. Sets the tone perfectly.
D Boone, west coast most creative and original songwriter. If only he were still alive.
Superb album. Their music still really fits the times in 2020. Eternal shelf life. One of a kind band and forever relevant. RIP D. Boon and thanks fellas for all the great music.
I have a lot of respect for Mitch Mitchell...he's easily one of the best drummers of all time. Bonham, too. But they still don't rise to Hurley level. And while the Puppets "Up On the Sun" is the best album in the SST catalog...because it's the BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME...taken as a whole, based on the overall quality of their entire output, Minutemen are the best group of all time. Jimi Hendrix Experience and Led Zeppelin are obviously in the same conversation, but the visceral mania and CONSTANT "On-ness" of this band is hard to overcome. These guys never let up...they never rest. Luckily, we can listen to all three.
Seriously, these guys should be in the RRHOF. Like...YESTERDAY.
I'm not going to say you're wrong for saying "Up On the Sun" is the best album in SST's catalog, but I will say that's a very bold statement to make about the label that also released "My War"
@@gnartothecore a lot of people don't fuck with my war apparently, i've heard some people say all the rollins era stuff was their worst stuff. i disagree but i get it
Hurley's (jokingly?) said when they recorded this he didn't quite know how he was able to pull off some of these "rope tricks"
I'm gonna chalk it up to years of prac in his shed. I've played through this a few times, it's a workout :)
I always wondered how Husker Du got bigger, when the Minutemen had so much more color to their sound. Also, funny, smart, and great players. Too political?
I hear ya. Huskers had a more conventional sound and their songs fit more easily into a standard rock format. The Minutemen hinted at that and achieved it with Project: Mersh and Three-Way Tie For Last but then D. Boon died leaving a lot of us wondering what kind of album they’d put out next?
A timeless classic.
Back to hear many times over
I remember back in 2008, maybe 2007, waiting at a bus stop & listening to this album. It was so different from anything else I listened to & I was an instant fan. I replayed it over & over so many times.
Mike Watt is absolutely my favourite bass player of all time
This album kicks ass
I love that these songs are all so short. I just listened to them all 3 times in a row.
😂
And today (Dec. 22, 2020) marks the 35th anniversary of d. Boone’s death
at the age of 27 in a traffic accident. The axel fell off of his van
while he was resting in the back. For punk rock in Los Angeles, that is
the day the music died. Mike Watt did amazing work with fIREHOSE (and
other bands) after that, but it definitely broke a part of his heart
forever.
Today is also the anniversary of Joe Strummer’s death (12/22/2002)
Hey again Elmo! Yeah man, I remember watching video about that accident. I was a "big" truck driver for a crap company called Swift in the early 2000's. The area he went off the road on I-10 before the state line at Quartzite had a strange effect on me; I'm seriously thinking that there is/was a permanent Native American curse on that section of road; the westbound side used to lull me into a snooze as I was rolling downhill on my way to Wilmington ports with my container trailer. Always the same exact mile markers found me dreaming as I rolled with other drivers with 40,000 to 80,000 pounds; I could drink coffee so strong you could stand a spoon in, and still, risked dying or killing with narcoleptic nirvana, UNTIL I WOKE UP SHIT, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING DUDE, WAKE THE FUCK UP. OH MAN, peace.
How DO they make seconds feel HOURS?!! how do day do dat??
George Hurley is underrated.
One of the top drummers of all time. And I love Peart, Bonham, Bruford, Sipe, etc etc
This is really freaky... I know all these songs, but haven't heard them in at least 30 years, and didn't realize it was The Minutemen. It's like one flashback after another. But I don't remember owning this album or ever being into the Minutemen. Maybe a friend had a tape back in the day? (there was lots of punk mix tapes floating around) so, I'm not sure what I'm remembering. Anyway, hearing it now, I think I didn't give them enough attention back then - this is really ahead of its time.
Buyed this album 1990. Flash. Genious. Favorite like Nick Cave's Birthday Party Albums and Big Black.
Genius ' pure souls music♡♡♡
It's their entire first album, but the sentiment is appreciated. Go check out the rest of their work. Double Nickels on the Dime (1984) is their masterpiece.
WOW....this is fantastic....the songs are so strong....Classic....
Masterpiece !!!!!!
15 minutes of bliss
Goddamn I love this album!
a work of art made by dudes who were all of 23
Not heard this in ages. Glad to be doing so right now.
Great album.
A life Changing Album, Punchy Power BASS !
Playing a Precision with a pick, SPOT flavored it up too
Les précurseurs de Nomeansno? incontournables!
Brilliant
15 minutes of punk bliss
Mike Watt in full superhero mode here. Unimaginable before.
THIS IS AWESOME
Sounds a bit like early Wire meets The Pop Group meets Gang of Four. What a pity that I lent a CD with this album once and never got it back.
It's funny; I started with Minutemen and then listened to Wire, The Fall, Pere Ubu. Apparently Mike and D. Boon really digged Wire.
They loved Wire. Their spiel inspired! Watt states his love of them and The Pop Group often
not heard this before , thanks, big love
Bought a used cassette of "My First Bells" (SST compilation of everything before "Double Nickels") in the late 80's and didn't get it at all. It sounded like a buncha noise to me and I promptly forgot about it. Coupla years later, i get my first car with a shitty cassette deck and owning not a lot of tapes, I start playing it. Still don't get it, but it sounds cool driving around Portland in the summertime in a beat up '72 Chevy Nova. Got to the point where I COULDN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT. Guess what I'm trying to say is that the Minutemen are an acquired taste, but once you get what they're actually up to, they make perfect sense.
Yep I got that cassette as well. Wicked!
Like 70-80 songs just blistering. Got it in London when I was 18. Still kills.
just bought this album and their second in CD. Finally. Double Nickels got it 10 years ago and played almost everyday since then
2020 and i love this release!!!!!!! only ever heard paranoid time up until this very moment, they jam econo
This stuff is awesome, thank you UA-cam for recommending this!
@Thelonius: He was right on two accounts: Custer was so scared he shit himself; and nearly everyone shits their pants when they die.
found this band in the comment section of a nomeansno album. pretty fuckin' rad
I love rich sounding music I did not expect to hear it from them with this titles. So that's how it is called by BUNDS - Punchline: The Stru ggle!👋👐 Fuego! Charge.......!
So good it’s almost intimidating. Like WTF space alien music.
they were the best band in the world for a few years.
Minutemen. Real mucisians x excellent bass x vision x hardcore
Deon Nungaray Mike Watt was a god no doubt but, I don't think he would have been as much if it weren't for the creatively superb drum playing of George Hurley. Listen closely, especially on Double Nickels, nothing short of brilliant.
+goodboysic definitely half of the tightest rhythm section punk ever saw...
@@goodboysic Hurley was a superhero, but I think Watt was one of a kind. He invented something new with these early Minutemen recordings. Like a 2-guitar band, but better because of the isolation across registers.
The Best!!!!
Sick shit. Gonna listen to more by them. :)
First song is the best song ever
Econo
Anyone remember that picture framed image of D-Boone on the wall at the old Anti-Club aka Helen's Place on Melrose?♡♡Minutemen ♡♡
anti-club was where it was at!
I like Games as well
Double Nickels is their magnum opus, but this one will always be my favorite.
Calling it a "full-length album" is a stretch, though, since the total playing time is about 15 minutes.
The measured distance between centuries issues you your number.
Brian Whitehorn I couldn't agree more.
one of their best albums
didn't relies 30 years ago when i got this album how tight they were. it was probably all of the acid i was doing........
sooo good.
search is a great song, besides the fact i can't stop picturing goatse every time i hear it
so will you so will i thats just how it goes
Oh man, it's over :O
"you don't REMEMBER" well we do innit?
Masterpiece thanxalot,escaped vivesectionist!
Great great album. Hardcore, post-punk, whatever you want to call it, it slays.
I think labels are stupid. There’s just good and crap music.
"Starting the affirmation of man: I work my way backwards using cynicism"
Well that's not how I'm gonna go.
Austin Lucas Starting "with" the affirmation of man. Leaving that word out significantly changes the meaning of the lyric.
goodboysic It does.
Sometimes I totally missed lyrics and other times, I didn't even hear them. I used to think one song was talking about stopping an ocean, though the lyric was "Old Showstoppers"...
Austin Lucas Tell me about it. As a kid I thought the line in Joy to the world was..."Joy to the bishops and the priests will see, joy for you and me. actually Joy to the fishes and the deep blue sea
goodboysic I'm beginning to wonder how much of TV that I remember from when I was four years old is real and how much is just remembering it from the perspective of a 4-year-old. Somehow I managed to think a Scooby-Doo episode was a bit different than I ended up seeing it as later on.
Austin Lucas Dude!! (sorry to use such antiquated slang), I completely know what you mean. Sometimes I remember an episode of a show I saw and liked when I was young. I mean distinctly remember. Then I get the DVD set of it, watch it, and make the realization that I actually was remembering like three separate episodes as one. Some shows I even doubt really existed as well. Maybe you can help me with one, I don't know how old you are but, here goes... Late sixties/early seventies, black and white cartoon, the setting was in space, the central character was a round glass space helmet with a little alien head inside, but the body was just this moving squiggle of energy. Any ideas? Cheers
Does anybody have guitar and bass tabs for search?
If he could, he probably wouldn't be asking for tabs, you mong.
03:44 Kurtis blow
Tamburovich is Dalmatian Croat from San....Pedro?
@Ferenc Kiss-H. Yes, Krist even went, a year or two, in high school in Zadar..
eu paquira
I don't remember....
dude you put down the length of the songs, not where they start.
Shrooms will do that to you.
What the fuck is the name of the second track on minutemen's the punchline? Anyone?
+dave frazier tension
Is that somehow a problem?
How is this an album? Shouldnt it be an EP at only 15 minutes long?
😂
Welcome to Minutemen circa 1981
Who is Tamburovich?
Martin Tamburovich
Singer of the Reactionaries, their band before Minutemen
GREAT SHIT ! USED TO WATCH THEM ON CHANNEL U68 NEW YORK
Henry Rollins brought me here.
@thomas
acceleration punk from Montreuil in France!!!!!!
1. Search - 0:00
2. Tension - 0:54
3. Games - 2:13
4. Boiling - 3:17
5. Disguises - 4:15
6. The Struggle - 5:03
7. Monuments - 5:43
8. Ruins - 6:35
9. Issued - 7:25
10. The Punch Line - 8:05
11. Song For El Salvador - 8:46
12. History Lesson - 9:18
13. Fanatics - 9:56
14. No Parade - 10:27
15. Straight Jacket - 11:19
16. Gravity - 12:19
17. Warfare - 13:15
18. Static - 14:10
I don’t think the video maker knows how to count too well.
@@OffendEveryoneImmediately time is elastic.
First song is the best song ever
Come on let's search!
First song is the best song ever
First song is the best song ever