Post Mersh 1

Minutemen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sst Records
• ASIN: B000000M2H
• In-Print Editions: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,521 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grow with First 2 Minutemen LPs, November 29, 2002

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Peter Henne (San Pedro, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Post Mersh 1 (Audio CD)

Like another reviewer here, I caught the Minutemen's whirl-a-gig jazz at a young age, but unlike him it's settled in nicely in my memory. The Minutemen opened me to Coltrane and Ornette, and the elliptical artistic attack of Boon, Watt, and Hurley continues to explode good sense as far as I'm concerned. They're at their most elegant here, finishing off practically every song under two minutes. Favorite lyric: "Pack a chunk of the sun/Glue it to your heart hold on." If you happen to have money to splurge, you could buy both of these albums separately: they were released a little more than a year apart, and while "The Punch Line" forms the musical foundation for everything to follow, "What Makes A Man Start Fires?" is thick, rich and strange enough to demand its own hearing. D. Boon's ghost might say, "Go econo."

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential! Listen to me! I mean it! Essential!, September 27, 2000

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"lexo-2" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Post Mersh 1 (Audio CD)

The Minutemen were one of the best bands ever, and I don't normally say that kind of thing. They had fire, funk, swing, intelligence, wit, soul and a killer rhythm section. "The Punch Line", their first album, included on this disc, contains about 20 songs in thirty minutes. (They weren't called the Minutemen just to get up the noses of right-wingers.) They had more good riffs and great grooves per album than most bands can fit into an entire career.

This is one of the three or four essential Minutemen discs, cramming their first two albums onto one sliver of plastic. Once heard, they are never forgotten and never regretted. The only bad thing about them is that one of them got killed, and the band stopped; otherwise they might have gone on to change the face of American music forever.

Buy this album, and you will feel your standards raise even as you listen. As time went on, they mellowed, just slightly, and they slowed down a bit, and they let songs go on a bit longer than a minute and a half, but they never lost their touch. Hear them here in their blazing early style and thank the likes of me for introducing you to them.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Epic effort from seminal LA punk power trio--awesome, June 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Post Mersh 1 (Audio CD)

I still get this one out from time to time, and with pleasure. One of the all-time great punk records--funny, angry, fast, cynical, blunt, funny, extremely well-crafted, anti-boring, and funny some more. I saw these guys once at 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis--D. Boone before he died, Mike Watt (in full Fidel Catro regalia), and drummer George Hurley (stupendously good that night). Post-Mersh V.1 perfectly captures the spirit and music of that terrific show. Warning: this is horrible study music--you won't be able to sit still. But you already know that--it's the Minutemen!