Band Name: Minutemen
Music Album: Post-Mersh, Vol. 1
Album Release Date: January 1970
Music Genre: Punk Rock Alternative Rock
Record Label: SST Records
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 36 Tracks CD
The Minutemen were a band from San Pedro, California, formed in 1980 by childhood friends Dennes "D." Boon (vocals, guitar) and Mike Watt (bass, vocals) following the break-up of their previous band, The Reactionaries. Although technically considered a punk rock band, the group frequently added elements of funk and jazz into their songs and would also incorporate classic rock covers into their records and live sets, most notably covering Steely Dan, Van Halen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Blue Öyster Cult (the latter two were huge influences on a young Boon and Watt). The band was known for the brevity of their songs, freeing them from solos, choruses, breakdowns, and fade-outs. Also, D. Boon was known for his very trebly guitar tone, believing in a "democratic" sound, in which all instruments would (...)
| The Punch Line | ||
| 1 | Search | 0:53 |
| 2 | Tension | 1:20 |
| 3 | Games | 1:04 |
| 4 | Boiling | 0:57 |
| 5 | Disguise | 0:48 |
| 6 | The Struggle | 0:41 |
| 7 | Monuments | 0:51 |
| 8 | Ruins | 0:49 |
| 9 | Issued | 0:40 |
| 10 | The Punch Line | 0:41 |
| 11 | Song For El Salvador | 0:32 |
| 12 | History Lesson | 0:38 |
| 13 | Fanatics | 0:31 |
| 14 | No Parade | 0:51 |
| 15 | Straight Jacket | 0:59 |
| 16 | Gravity | 0:57 |
| 17 | Warfare | 0:55 |
| 18 | Static | 0:53 |
| What Makes A Man Start Fires? | ||
| 19 | Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs | 1:28 |
| 20 | One Chapter In The Book | 1:02 |
| 21 | Beacon Sighted Through Fog | 1:43 |
| 22 | Fake Contest | 1:00 |
| 23 | Mutiny In Jonestown | 1:08 |
| 24 | Pure Joy | 2:08 |
| 25 | Faith / East Wind | 1:29 |
| 26 | '99 | 1:00 |
| 27 | The Anchor | 2:33 |
| 28 | Sell Or Be Sold | 1:44 |
| 29 | The Only Minority | 1:00 |
| 30 | Split Red | 0:53 |
| 31 | Colors | 2:05 |
| 32 | Flight | 1:37 |
| 33 | This Road | 1:08 |
| 34 | The Tin Roof | 1:34 |
| 35 | Life As A Rehearsal | 1:24 |
| 36 | Polarity | 1:50 |
Tracks 1 to 18 recorded February, 1981 at Media Art - Hermosa Beach, CA.
Tracks 19 to 36 recorded July 1982 at Music Lab - Hollywood, CA.
℗ 1981, 1982 SST Records
All songs published by tHUNDERsPIELS (BMI)
Post-Mersh, Volume 1 is a compilation of The Punch Line album from 1981 and the What Makes A Man Start Fires? album from 1982.
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