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Published on June 27th 2006
The Minutemen were truly one of the great American punk rock bands, and though you can't trace their sound to a specific scene or a specific group of bands like you can with say, Minor Threat or the Dead Kennedys, what the band contributed was nonetheless immeasurable. D.Boon, Mike Watt and Hurley expanded the vocabulary of what punk and hardcore could be. Like the Clash with ska and reggae, or Billy Bragg with folk, the Minutemen gave punk new realms of creativity that allowed it to persevere for these past three vibrant decades.
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allowing one rare licensing of the Minutemen's music to Volvo, but only to provide the money to Boon's father for medical care. Milo Goes To College would be great remastered. Also, anything Husker Du did with Spot needs remastered. mark prindle is the only rock critic that matters. Mark Prindle rules. I love that guy. http://www.markprindle.com Am I the only one who was happy to see that Norton still has that sweet mustache? what they should do is reissue double nickels with the 3 songs that didn't fit on the original cd version (but were on the LP) but would fit on newer cds becasue they can fit a few more minutes worth of music. Maybe by reissued they mean "with new stuff in them". there is a fairly recent (last couple years) interview with Kira from Black Flag who I believe Mike Watt was married to for a time, and its one of the best interviews I've read. I can't recall the fanzine name, but its online in full somewhere. Anyone remotely interested in Mike Watt or life after punk bands for some of its original members, its quite good. Why do any of those need reissues? Damaged still sounds intense as hell, Double Nickels is still perfect....no reason to clean up and fix something that's not wrong. the first song on Sublime's 40 oz of freedom has the clip from "History Lesson" I agree that it already sounds great. I guess there's always room for improvements, though. A reissued Double Nickels..?? better give up on sst reissuing zen arcade. husker du are joining the ranks of the meat puppets, sonic youth and dino jr as bands who have taken back their sst albums due to non-payment of royalties. Ginn would rather make the most money possible while doing the least amount of work. He's too busy smoking and saving cats to care about products that keep selling. This DVD just reminded me that someone needs to get Ginn to do some nice remastered reissues of classic SST releases; maybe Double Nickels, Damaged, Milo Goes to College and Zen Arcade for a start. Swingline has some serious hate for lifetime. a single dingleberry from the depth of my foul crevice is better than lifetime. i also think the part where they get to D's death is really poignant, how instead of saying "D died", they just silently zoom into ian holding up a note henry wrote about D dying. very well done. obviously, this band was amazing. the doc was good, but i felt it was culled from too little (the watt interview, the video interview from '85 plus the testimonials and live footage, that strikes me as very little) but still very entertaining to watch. highlights were listening to j masic, with no noticable affect, talk about D dancing, george hurley's hillarious hair back in the 80s and watt talking about how he used to not understand what tuning was and just figured some people liked their strings tight and some liked them loose. better than kid dynamite even! so this band is better than lifetime, right? These guys were really a great great band. I love how they just did everything "econo". I don't know if I could ever do it, but I respect the hell out of them for being able to do it. I also agree that you should check out Our Band Could Be Your Life (a Minutemen quote actually) if you are interested in the stories and anticdotes of bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Minutemen, Replacements, Big Black, ect. The Minutemen were one of the best bands ever. This documentary had some problems, but it was pretty damn interesting, even if there were some glaring omissions. Truly a fantastic band, with excellent, original music, and real ideals and values. One of the few great bands that is, for some reason, vastly under-appreciated. mike watt is an amazing person to talk to. i did a show with his latest band a few years ago and he gave me a history lesson on the venue they were playing. funniest part of the conversation was probably "yeah we played here back in 82 or so when i was in black flag with john's band... what were they called?" "negative approach?" "yeah, thats it" Double Nickels is great. Definitely one of my favorite bands. I've never listened to Minutemen before although I've always heard good things. I was gonna pick up Double Nickels on the Dime on vinyl the other day would that be a good place to start? I can't wait to see this. Great band, but these documentry dvds are nearly always boring. Great review. Now I'm even more eager to see this. The Starwood stuff is so fucking amazing! How the hell does something like that exist? It's perfet quality, multiple cameras, and awesome songs! I watched 3/4 of the 9:30 club one last night before I fell asleep and though it drags at times it's awesome for about 85% of it. The music videos are pretty awesome too. Where's the Underoath review?!?!?!?!?!?! Also, I'm going to take this opportunity to recommend Our Band Could Be Your Life. It does a really good job of telling the story of the Minutemen along with other bands like Minor Threat, Husker Du, Black Flag, etc. I've been wanting to see this since I first heard about it what seems like 5 years ago. I'll try to pick this up when I actually have some disposable income. Got this myself the other day, can't stop watching it! This is the band that got me into Punk Rock over 20 years ago. The Minutemen are IT! Double Nickles on the Dime is not only the Best Punk Record of all time but thee Best Record of ALL TIME (IMO). Please take the time to buy this great product, it comes with a second DVD with three live full-performances by The Minutemen making this a total Bargain. PUNK HISTORY MAKERS! great band. i gotta pick this up. reading about the d.boon/mike watt friendship then listening to "history lesson, part II" just gives you chills and tears me up sometimes. One of the greatest bands ever. No fucking question about it. Great band. Technical without being boring. |
