Incredible how the Minutemen managed to sound so complete, so full, while being simultaneously ferocious, sharp, sarcastic, and even "refined," musically stimulating, all within songs lasting between 40 and 70 seconds. This second EP is the epitome of urgency, featuring 3 fragments of Hardcore-Post-Punk for a total duration of 3 minutes, and in these three bursts of song, there's EVERYTHING. Everything that needs to be there, including the musicians' technical ability, in communion with the communicative urgency of Punk-Hardcore, the scathing lyrics, and the (also very "post" punky) dissonant vocals of Boon. "Black Sheep" contains everything in one minute. Perfect, full, plump. Yet it ends before you even realize it started. Mike Watt and George Hurley, however, are a rhythm section that will leave you in tears and pulling your hair out, my favorite of the '80s, personally speaking, of course. What a band.
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