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@ the forklift- "The DVD can also be found in the forklift if you want": yes, but without the three concerts included, and without subtitles... @NIBIIO: That it has been released in Italy is great news: audio in Italian? @Dante/trell/oceansize: thank you dears :) @pretazzo: Big Boys noted. But are they Texan and vaguely resemble the Butthole Surfers? If so, I've already listened to them and didn't like them. @pourquoipas: my review seems to have been in Home the entire afternoon on Sunday. More than that, I couldn't wish for, thanks to the kind editors.

Well done, Spacca. I listened to them casually some time ago, I don’t remember if it was this album or another; by the looks of it, they seem like a damn good band, here we go with the 80s underground!

Psycho, I know they came to Italy last year, damn I missed it. NIBIIO, I don't find much hardcore in their sound. Sure, the conciseness of the tracks and the frenzy of the performance, but it totally lacks the violence and the charge of anger that characterized the genre. Maybe the only one close to classic hardcore is the first EP Paranoid Time. @Occulto Supersovrano: the term Minutemen has a triple meaning. Minutemen were American soldiers, "ready in a minute" (as foreveryoung points out, which I thank); or it can refer to the brevity of their songs, "one-minute songs, minute." In the documentary, Mike Watt specifies that they chose that name precisely because they were normal, modest people. You have to look for the DVD in the USA (I bought mine on eBay), I don't think a PAL version has been released.

thank you :)

What's wrong, Ramona? The Minutemen may not have sounded punk (well, a little), but their intentions surely were. They kept repeating it, in their own words. This is a lengthy review because it seems like this site hasn't properly discussed this fundamental band yet (aside from Spacca's review, which was about the album and not the band's history), and this DVD was the perfect opportunity to do so. I thank the -few- visitors: reverse for spotting the annoying fake, the ever-present Spacca & Pretazzo, Sanjuro whom I recommend at least a re-listen to Double Nickels on the Dime (one of those albums that requires many listens, and it's worth it), even dboon who has risen from the grave to comment on my review :) I hoped this would be the chance to start a proper discussion about why rock didn't die after '77 and which important bands emerged far from the glaring lights of the nascent MTV, about why, starting from those years, "mainstream" music lost all value, etc. etc. instead, it’s always the same few of us listening to Minutemen & co. Oh well.

Obsessive, violent, dissonant, raw. "the terminal nightmare of a society on the brink": not so much as the first, but I prefer it.

But will he take the jewels out of the drawers soon? Because I don't really care about a live, but if he started to bring to light the 999999 albums of fabulous unreleased tracks...

I liked it this way too, fluid surreal narration :)

It's the only one I have, I can't get over it.

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