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- Artist: Minutemen
- Album: Double Nickles On The Dime
- Label: SST
- Year of Release: 1984
- ME Rating: Indie Classic
- Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-31
RecommendIt was a good year for underground independent music as this album as well as Husker Du's Zen Arcade were released. And as everyone says these two albums just get better with age, never losing their relativity. Although Double Nickles comes off quite political you just can't help but get caught up in the music. As Mike Watt's first band he wanted to show the world the proper way to play a bass. When lead singer D. Boon died in a car accident it was more or less a requirement for Mike to carry on. That's how fIRHOSE came into the picture. Do yourself a favour and pick up Double Nickels for the sake of indie music's colourful past.
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on 2011-12-01 CharlesMartel Said:
There are occasionally albums which cross my radar for which I have absolutely no affinity whatsoever. Sadly, " Double Nickels on the Dime " is one of them. I say sadly because I had some high expectations for this and felt let down when I finally listened to it. It is not that it is bad in the sense that I can identify a flaw and point it out with a triumphant I don't like this because... No, the problem is more that this album and me come from perspectives so far apart that it just fails to register with me in any sense.
Have you ever thought about life, the Universe? You've probably been told that the Universe is expanding exponentially. OK, if it is expanding, it is expanding into something. There is a barrier, a dividing line between the Universe and...what? What is it which lies beyond the edge of the Universe? I don't think about the subject much because it does my head in. It is one of those concepts that is so far beyond my comprehension that I simply cannot comprehend any way of getting my head round it.
And that is largely how I feel about "Double Nickels on the Dime " but not in so grandiose a fashion. The album is so far beyond my comprehension that I cannot comprehend a way I can get my head round it. This is largely because it is so American, so Mid-West American, so Wild-West American, so Deep-South, racist, Talibaptist, extreme-right-wing American (well it isn't, but it might as well be), so utterly beyond my experience that I cannot imagine what it must have been like to create an album like this.
The album is hardcore punk without the aggression; post-punk without the talent. There are forty-four songs on this album and almost all of them are over in a flash. Each one has the same format. Thump-thump, thrash-thrash, YAAR YAAR YAAR, bang-bang, thrash-thrash. Two seconds and the next one starts up. I don't think I have ever sat down and listened to this album in one sitting, and I don't think I could. It is not something high on my list of things to try before I die. I cannot honestly remember the titles of the songs on it, not that it matters. The band get credit for managing to stretch this out to fill a double vinyl but beyond that, no, just no.
Rating: 2/10
