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| | What Makes a Man Start Fires? | | | Music Artist : | | Minutemen | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sst Records | | Release Date : | | 1991-08-06 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
2. One Chapter in the Book
3. Fake Contest
4. Beacon Sighted Through Fog
5. Mutiny in Jonestown
6. East Wind/Faith
7. Pure Joy
8. '99
9. Anchor
10. Sell or Be Sold
11. Only Minority
12. Split Red
13. Colors
14. Plight
15. Tin Roof
16. Life as a Rehearsal
17. This Road
18. Polarity
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Masterpiece. 1 of 4. Completely unique band. Saw 'em live 4 times.
Submitted on: 2006-03-01 |
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Missed 'em live about 3 other times. Lemme tell you a story. Maybe not?
However, this album, we can call it that, packed with lots 'o songs but not lasting very long. Yes, they recreated the album in their own form.
This is their second album, came out 1983.
What's their four masterpieces? Punch line 1981, this one, Buzz Howl... 1983 and Double Nickles 2xLP 1984. Feel free to include My First Bells if you like, a compilation tape of their early 7" records and compilation tracks.
Can't really include Politics of Time, 1984 cuz there's too many poorly recorded songs on it. Same reason for Ballot Result. Musically both are brilliant however.
Mersh I wouldn't include cuz they sorta go a different path musically but, heck, it's still the MINUTEMEN.
Thank goodness amazon.com has those 'listen' buttons for most of the records they sell. Just let the music speak for itself man. Nobody made music like this. God took d. boon too soon from us and it was as big a blow as taking Jimi and Belushi too soon. God bless d. boon.
Meanwhile, buy this as is or on one of those 3 Post Mersh CD's released together with other MINUTEMEN records on one CD. You cannot go wrong.
Brief, passionate, bit 'o funky, beautiful voice(s), sharp drumming. That incredible bass playing and together a 3 man unit that sailed through songs and gave us a gift that will stand the ages. Well.
Ok, if you wanna know, I wish I'd seen 'em more times but I saw that Mojave Desert show in the broad flat middle of nowhere salt flats with SAVAGE REPUBLIC. Four bus loads of us. Generators and two passionate bands and us and lots of nowhere. In the afternoon.
And the San Pedro Bay show just on a boat with the MEAT PUPPETS and about 50 other folks who loved either or both bands sitting a few boat lengths away from the dock on a Wednesday night. Outdoors, on a clear night on the water. Lovely.
And when 100 FLOWERS called it quits at Al's Bar in L.A. d. boon and Keith Morris both got on stage to sing with 100 FLOWERS at the end of their set. MINUTEMEN raged.
And with MEAT PUPPETS opening then MINUTEMEN then HUSKER DU in San Diego on El Cajon Blvd. in a place I'd never seen a gig be at before nor since, like a place with a stage and it said it was a recording studio but no equipment around. You can imagine, the three together made for a very memorable show.
They played with an SST line up all of whom I loathed (musically) like DINASOUR JR. so I stupidly listened to the MINUTEMEN's set from the back alley. Yup. Big dope.
I forget if I saw 'em an actual fourth time.
Missed 'em in Tijuana. Giant 12 band show in a movie theatre. SOLUCION MORTAL opened at 3pm. Only Mexican band. Then some incredible Tucson acid rockabilly band. And like more bands just kept getting added. Excene and John Doe did a set maybe a stripped down KNITTERS. CICRLE JERKS and the MINUTMEN were both there hangin' out. But midnight came along and the cops simply shut the show down even though I didn't see any trouble anywhere. Everyone simply went home without the two headliners ever playing.
Me and my second BCT (Bad Compilation Tapes/Borderless Countries Tapes) partner, Chris, were visiting Bruce Licher of SAVAGE REPUBLIC in L.A. and he told us the MINUTEMEN were playing down the way. Chris had a girlfriend who he said would frown on him getting back to San Diego late. Yup. Lost chance.
Thanks MINUTEMEN. chrisbct@hotmail.com |
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their most original and best, though too weird, early, and short to be remembered
Submitted on: 2005-11-10 |
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This is a very scratchy and dark album by minutemen. Double nickels is everyone quoted favorite, but this is their best. Mersh is energetic and sweet, double nickels is them having fun. This is very dark, angry and jazz inflected, by far their most original.
So short, so brilliant, so totally unique. Has anyone made music quite like this since? Many have tried.
I saw minutemen in high school about 3 months before D Boon died, 1985. They opened up for REM, when REM were so incredible, but my memory is fuzzy of early high school, so many soon-to-be legendary shows every month.
How lucky that one of the early bands I was into, would turn out to be one of the best of all time. Kind of like enjoying the work of a few local painters that pretty much you and your friends are the only ones that even have heard of them, and later they turn out to be Monet and Renoir. |
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When punk became post-punk?
Submitted on: 2002-01-31 |
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| "What Makes a Man Start Fires" seems to be a demarcation point: for the Minutemen at least. And, unlike a previous reviewer, I wouldn't use the imagery of an "extended nightmare," as much as a "blissed-out daydream." D. Boone, Mike Watt and George Hurley were talented enough to realize early that hardcore punk had serious limitations. In many senses, this album branches out into territory that "Double Nickels" never touched. I am not sure where this place is, but I can guess that it involves driving old cars down the Pacific Coastline, dreaming about things other than the plight of the working man. |
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When punk became post-punk?
Submitted on: 2002-01-31 |
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| "What Makes a Man Start Fires" seems to be a demarcation point: for the Minutemen at least. And, unlike a previous reviewer, I wouldn't use the imagery of an "extended nightmare," as much as a "blissed-out daydream." D. Boone, Mike Watt and George Hurley were talented enough to realize early that hardcore punk had serious limitations. In many senses, this album branches out into territory that "Double Nickels" never touched. I am not sure where this place is, but I can guess that it involves driving old cars down the Pacific Coastline, dreaming about things other than the plight of the working man. |
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one of my favorite albums
Submitted on: 2001-08-05 |
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| its hard to explain what the minutemen sound like. there pretty origenal. all the songs are breif but prove there point. this record has a lot of experimentation (check out the drums on east wind/faith) these guys do a lot of stuff bands today would never do. songs like mutiny in jonestown and fake contest are brief origenals. i recommend it. this album packs a punch. but get it on vinly. its just more classic that way. |
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