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The year was 1984… I don't know what the Minutemen were smoking or what they had been drinking, or if they were on drugs, or in a state of grace, or in ecstasy, or if they had seen the Madonna, but the fact is that they conceived this wonderful album: Double Nickels On The Dime. And indeed it is a masterpiece of rock music composed of a whopping 45 intensely crafted songs made by perhaps the most creative trio in rock, none of which reach three minutes and rarely exceed two, but the surprising fact is that one is more beautiful than the other. Like all the greatest masterpieces, this album cannot be included in a specific genre. On the contrary, it becomes the creator of a new genre, encapsulating in miniature the vast majority, if not all, of the rock genres, all filtered through punk and funk. I leave it to your imagination what a spectacle this is, impossible not to get involved, impossible to remain indifferent while listening, impossible to stay still. It's an album that never bores from the first to the last track.
Singer and guitarist D. Boon demonstrates his brilliance, although the rhythm section composed of bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley is no less capable of churning out gems one after another without skipping a beat. It starts with Boon's car being started; it's hard to say which are the best songs, as each contains a microcosm full of genius ideas and each song, when listened to attentively, is a treasure chest of genres.
An album that must be listened to, altering the coordinates and perspectives of rock music. After experiencing this masterpiece, many albums that you once liked will no longer appeal to you. 5/5 obviously, it deserves it more than many others.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
03 Viet Nam (01:27)
Let's say I got a number
That number's fifty thousand
That's ten percent
Of five hundred thousand
Well, here we are
In French Indochina
Executive order
Congressional decision
The working masses
Are manipulated
Was this our policy?
Ten long years
Not one domino shall fall
05 It's Expected I'm Gone (02:07)
I don't want to hurt
See, my position was here
I mean, as it was, I was
So this led to the downfall of man
I can make seconds feel hours
I make certain
That my head is connected to my body
No hope?
See, that's what gives me guts
Big fucking shit
Right now, man
08 Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth? (01:46)
A word war
Will set off the keg
My words are war
Should a word have two meanings?
What the fuck for?
Should words serve the truth?
I stand for language
I speak for truth
I shout for history
I am a cesspool
For all the shit
To run down in
09 Don't Look Now (01:40)
written by John C. Fogerty of Credence Clearwater Revival
who'll take the coal from the mines?
who'll take the salt from the earth?
who'll take a leaf and grow it to a tree?
don't look now, it ain't you or me
who'll work the field with his hands?
who'll put his back to the plough?
who'll take the mountain and give it to the sea?
don't look now, it ain't you or me
don't look now, someone's done your starvin'
don't look now, someone's done your prayin'
who'll make the shoes for your feet?
who'll make the clothes that you wear?
who'll take the promise
that you don't have to keep?
don't look now, it ain't you or me
who'll take the promise
that you don't have to keep?
don't look now, it ain't you or me
13 Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing (01:29)
list monitors arrive with(out) petition
iron fisted philosophy
is your life worth a painting
is this girl versus boy with different symbols
being born is power
scout leader/nazi tagged as big sin
"your risk chains me hostage me
me i'm fighting with my head
am not ambiguous"
i must have looked like a dork
me naked with text book poems
spout fountain against the nazis
with a weird kind of sex symbol
in speeches that are big dance thumps
if we heard mortar shells
we'd cuss more in our songs
and cut down on the guitar solos
so dig this big crux:
organize the boy scouts for murder is wrong
ten years behind the big sweat point
man, it was still there
ever without you
coming back around
look
the coming together for just a second
a peek
a guess
at the wholeness that's way too big
at the wholeness that's way too big!
19 Corona (02:29)
The people will survive
In their environment
The dirt, scarcity, and the emptiness
Of our South
The injustice of our greed
The practice we inherit
The dirt, scarcity and the emptiness
Of our South
There on the beach
I could see it in her eyes
I only had a Corona
Five cent deposit.
23 History Lesson, Part II (02:12)
Our band could be your life
Real names be proof
Me and Mike Watt
We played for years
Punk rock changed our lives
We learned punk rock in Hollywood
Drove up from Pedro
We were fucking corndawgs
We'd go drink and pogo
Mr narrator!
This is Bob Dylan to me
My story could be his songs
I'm his soldier child
our band is scientist rock
but i was e bloom
then richard hell
joe strummer
and john doe
me and mike watt
playing guitar
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