Album of the day (#1262): Double Nickels On The Dime

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Today's album of the day

Double Nickels On The Dime by Minutemen (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1984.
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Overall rank: 329
Average rating: 81/100 (from 223 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Anxious Mo-Fo
2. Theatre Is The Life Of You
3. Viet Nam
4. Cohesion
5. It's Expected I'm Gone
6. # 1 Hit Song
7. Two Beads At The End
8. Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?
9. Don't Look Now
10. Shit From An Old Notebook
11. Nature Without Man
12. One Reporter's Opinion
13. Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
14. Maybe Partying Will Help
15. Toadies
16. Retreat
17. The Big Foist
18. God Bows To Math
19. Corona
20. The Glory Of Man
21. Take 5, D.
22. My Heart And The Real World
23. History Lesson - Part II
24. You Need The Glory
25. The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts
26. Mr. Robot's Holy Orders
27. West Germany
28. The Politics Of Time
29. Themselves
30. Please Don't Be Gentle With Me
31. Nothing Indeed
32. No Exchange
33. There Ain't Shit On T.V. Tonight
34. This Ain't No Picnic
35. Spillage
36. Untitled Song For Latin America
37. Jesus And Tequila
38. June 16th
39. Storm In My House
40. Martin's Story
41. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
42. Dr Wu
43. Little Man with a Gun in His Hand
44. The World According To Nouns
45. Love Dance

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[Mercury]

This album is pretty good. And it's highs are really good and there are numerous high points. So... Yeah I like it. However, this band always struck me as an interesting, unique band that as of yet hasn't really struck me as anything else. I respect them for going out and doing their own thing and also for influencing so many great bands that were peers and also who came after.

But this album is a mess sometimes. It just jumbled all these little ideas together and about half the time a perfectly good idea is ruined by D Boons annoying shouted vocal. And Watt's voice isn't much better, but it's less grating. I can't stand sometimes the preachy talking that goes on on all these little topics that just come across as asinine psychological or political theories.

The playing though is inspired and fun and really unique. I love the very James brown funk style guitar sound from Boon. The drumming is frantic and all over and, for a punk/indie band, pretty complex.

Yeah, it's okay. But I really just can't get past some of the aspects of it.
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[sp4cetiger]

I just listened to this again yesterday, but it's been on my chart for a long time. It's all stream-of-consciousness, like a beatnik met a punk and they had a beer together. It's a working class dude standing on a soap box and dishing about everything and nothing. It doesn't have any one agenda, it just drops its guts on your lap and tells you to do whatever you want with them and fuck all if you don't want them.

Preach on, D., preach on.

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[Patman360]

I love it, it's number 3 on my overall and one of the albums I consider perfect. There's so many things that amaze about this always, they're just so hard to put into words sometimes. 'History Lesson - Part 2' is my favourite song of all time, yet it's nothing like the majority of other songs on the album, there's just so much variety in there and I love it all. Like one minute there are great fast punk tracks like 'Nature Without Man' and 'Viet Nam' are the style of punk I love, yet then you have something bizarre like 'You Need The Glory' which sounds like something I'd expect to find on 'Trout Mask Replica' or something. Boon and Watt are probably my favourite guitarist and bassist duo ever and Hurley is a fantastic drummer aswell, I love the solos, the vocals, the lyrics, I just think it's great throughout, I dunno, I just love it.
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[Norman Bates]

I need to listen to it more often. Truly remarkable.

[drakonium]

Hasn't D. Boon also played in that French film, hum, how is it called? Les Ch'tis?

[Goodsir]

Truly a great album. The concept of having all of those short little punk blasts is brilliant. This should really be on my chart, I just don't listen to it enough.

[RepoMan]

Intoxicating, dizzying & utterly unique. all these years later & nothing has sounded like this.

EDIT: Cosmic disturbance in my chart now rectified.

[NickVolos]

Back in the mid 90's - possibly in another lifetime or another dimension, I had a neighbor who would assert that these guys - and Hüsker Dü - could do no wrong. Fifteen years had to pass from that time to reaffirm his assertion. This is a record of pure gold jazz punk.

Edit: Listen to it!
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