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| | Post-Mersh, Vol. 1 | | | Music Artist : | | Minutemen | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sst Records | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Search
2. Tension
3. Games
4. Boiling
5. Disguises
6. Struggle
7. Monuments
8. Ruins
9. Issued
10. Punch Line
11. Song for El Salvador
12. History Lesson
13. Fanatics
14. No Parade
15. Straight Jacket
16. Gravity
17. Warfare
18. Static
19. Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
20. One Chapter in the Book
21. Fake Contest
22. Beacon Sighted Through Fog
23. Mutiny in Jonestown
24. East Wind/Faith
25. Pure Joy
26. '99
27. Anchor
28. Sell or Be Sold
29. Only Minority
30. Split Red
31. Colors
32. Plight
33. Tin Roof
34. Life as a Rehearsal
35. This Road
36. Polarity
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 You can fit a lot more on one CD.
Submitted on: 2009-08-24 |
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A CD in the eighties could hold 74 minutes of audio if I remember correctly. Why not fill these Post-Mersh compilations to capacity?
You could fit Paranoid Time, Joy, The Punch Line, Bean-Spill, What Makes a Man Start Fires?, and Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat on one CD and The Politics of Time, Project Mersh, and 3-Way Tie (For Last) on another. Then, with the purchase of Double Nickels on the Dime and Ballot Result you would now own nearly every Minutemen release.
I don't see a reason why whoever compiled these decided to spread less music over more CD's. Effectively, you pay much more for less.
However, the music that is here and just great. Minutemen rule. |
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 A perfectly matched set of MINUTEMEN releases. Both masterpieces.
Submitted on: 2006-03-01 |
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I'll always love the cover painting on Punch Line. One of the great advantages of albums/12"s/lps or CD's: simply the size of the jacket that gave you much greater visual feasts when they had 'em and that was one.
If you don't already own these on album (heck, I own both and I still got this baby) get this thing and the other two Post Mersh volumes. All three were released in 1988 with music from 1980 through 1985.
Just listen to their music. You will never hear another band that sounds like them. (There's that excellent tribute CD Our Band Could Be Your Life). We were just lucky that three guys got together in San Pedro and made this music. It blew us away then. Though, I gotta admit, I didn't think it was Hardcore enough to go see them live as often as I coulda. Ya wimp (that'd be me). Only later, maybe near the end in 1985 did I start to realize how amazing these guys were. Each time I saw them live, about once in 1983 and two times in 1984 and maybe once in 1985, they just blew my head off. They definitely needed to release a live lp. Fortunately, there's that DVD documentary comin' out soon. Corndogs if I'm not mistaken. Saw the premier of that at the cool old theatre in San Pedro. Buffo. No question. There's gonna be at least one full live set on that DVD, hopefully more.
This was one of those bands that ruled in the studio and live. Not all bands can do that. These guys did. And death from a car crash (R.I.P. d. boon) is all that kept them from ruling the musical world for decades to come. One can only imagine what music they would have created and gifted us with. Only imagine. chrisbct@hotmail.com |
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Grow with First 2 Minutemen LPs
Submitted on: 2002-11-30 |
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| 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." |
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Sounded great in 1981, but I feel different about it today
Submitted on: 2001-07-25 |
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| This CD is a compilation of the Minutemen's first two 1980s LPs on the SST label. There was no doubt in my mind about the genius of Mike Watt, D. Boone, and George Hurley at the time this music was released. In 1981, no one in the music world was blending leftist political song lyrics with ultra-short jazz-punk song stylings like these guys. In addition, the Minutemen were wonderful bearers of a post-Vietnam/anti-Cold War revolutionary spirit. Their songs seemed to stand for justice, equality, honesty, and peace for all. And they wrote about these topics in a very unique, obscure way. Each song was like a little puzzle to figure out. "Son of a martyr, son of father/You can look inside you, you can look inside me." What the heck was Mike Watt talking about there? I don't know, but it was fun trying to figure out. Like the Dead Kennedys, the Minutemen were a political/metaphysical education to my fifteen year old mind. However, upon listening to this music in 2001, I now have the sense that it sounds "trite" and "above reality." It has hard to put my finger on why this is; perhaps it's because I have gotten older and more discriminating in my tastes; perhaps it's because I've become conditioned to better music production techniques over the last twenty years. But whatever the case, I just feel annoyed when I listen to these CDs today. They sound amphetamine-fueled, screechy, and grating to me. All in all, I think if you have not heard the Minutemen, "What Makes a Man Start Fires?" and "the punch line" are the place to start. However, keep in mind the context that this music was written and I think it will sound and play better. |
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 So Intense it's Scary
Submitted on: 2000-10-26 |
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| "The Punch Line" scares me. I've never since heard music that intense or pointedly aggressive. The band's more ambitious tendancies are to the fore as well - these are men who had "Trout Mask Replica" in their collection along with a lot of other things. The lyrics are pretty good too. Quite a record. "What Makes A Man Start Fires" impresses me less - the lyrics move towards nihilism and the music is suitably ugly. |
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