The Punch Line (studio album) by Minutemen

The Punch Line by Minutemen
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 14,822nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 49 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (214th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (2,044th)
Award Best albums of all time (14,822nd)
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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 350 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,051.

Minutemen album bestography « Higher ranked (14,066th) This album (14,822nd) Lower ranked (45,023rd) »
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The Punch Line track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Punch Line ratings

Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 49 votes)
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10/02/2023 17:35 TonySayers61  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 18,16664/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.3/100, a mean average of 70.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.

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45/100
From 03/08/2017 20:18
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.
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From 01/02/2017 23:03
Ideas all over the place, and very hard to digest. By the time you try to do it, it's over.
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From 03/29/2014 12:32
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.
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From 12/23/2013 04:21
Decent collection of short songs
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75/100
From 12/06/2013 13:50
great stuff...attention span not required :)
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