Double Nickels On The Dime
by Minutemen

One of the most brilliant punk records- or just any record, ever. It's hard to comprehend how expansive of a reach the trio of D. Boon, Mike Watt, and George Hurley on this album. Stretching across many fields to create some of the most creative, energetic, and flat line rockin'. After listening to 43 songs in 75 minutes, your mind opens undiscovered doors- kicking them down, disloding hinges and replacing what you thought rock was. The most feeling from a guitar since Hendrix himself, the bass is more free than America, and the drums compliment the High-Low duo, being the gravity of the group, a very groovin', gravity you grow love for. "Our band could be your life"- and with the purest of hope from my heart, I believe than I can achieve that greatness.

From Kalos 08/06/2014 17:57 | #118854 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Minutemen were capable of creating a world of sounds and ideas lasting for not more than two minutes. 45 songs, 45 worlds, billions of ideas, and not a second of boredom. Immense creativity, songs with great hook. All they needed was drums, a guitar, a bass. the greatest encyclopedia of rock music. Chapeux

Among the most technically-gifted trio of musicians of their generation, Minutemen produced an album whose unpredictable syncopated fractured aesthetic resembles a punk/hardcore version of 'Trout Mask Replica' fused with 'The Pop Group'. However, these primal insights merely provide the alibi for an exquisitely realised fragmented amalgamation of various musical genres - Floyd-ian psychedelia, dissonant jazz-funk, melodic garage, catchy pop, Southern country-blues - that ultimately results in a pagan-inspired form of hardcore music that bridges the quirkiness of the new wave with the cerebral and convoluted indulgence of progressive rock. Each of the short 40+ pieces is akin to an encyclopaedic reading of musical styles. 'Double Nickels' is one of the most beautifully realised and ambitious recordings of the decade.

From Patman360 09/06/2012 00:47 | #50076 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Words cannot describe my love for this album! Who knows what they would've achieved if D. Boon hadn't gone at such a young age... It's pretty damn close to perfection, if only there were bands like this still around...

From covecove TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/29/2011 02:20 | #23637 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Although usually classified as punk, Double Nickels On The Dime has nothing from the genre except the attitude. This is a complex piece eclectic in execution, energetic and inventive that defies conventionalisms by creating masterpieces in a less than two minutes time frame that reinvents itself with every track, lyricaly Iit is original and funny without being dumb or too easy, this album seems like a fundamental piece that would serve as a clear influence in relevant bands that would take the relative simplicity of the composition style to new heights like Pixies, Pavement, Primus and others. Besides all that can be said this album is simply awesome throught out 43 tracks, lets see who can top that although as an early review implies, this is definetely not for everyone, it requires a very sophisticated ear as all of the bands that I've mentioned before. A true gem.