The Punch Line
by Minutemen
Minutemen bestography
The Punch Line is ranked 5th best out of 14 albums by Minutemen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Minutemen is Double Nickels On The Dime which is ranked number 363 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,594.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Punch Line track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 05/12/2026 20:07 | culwin | 1,466 | 75/100 | |
| 05/19/2025 21:32 | brent13 | 1,975 | 68/100 | |
| 11/09/2024 11:10 | 12,340 | 85/100 | ||
| 08/01/2024 09:56 | JamesMowbray | 5,446 | 69/100 | |
| 10/02/2023 17:35 | TonySayers61 | 24,545 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.2/100, a mean average of 71.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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Some of the bars and beats are interesting, and for some reason Trout Mask Replica was brought to mind. However, the delivery of the vocalist was just plain annoying.
Ideas all over the place, and very hard to digest. By the time you try to do it, it's over.
this is more concept music than a pleasure producing record. but it must be admitted that this is definitly no chumming album. there are only uncompromising, feral, energetic and harsh tracks in a row.
Decent collection of short songs
great stuff...attention span not required :)
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