Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Okay listen, but far to less variety for so many minutes.
I just thought it was uninteresting and samey.
This was not my vibe, but I appreciate my music palate being extended!
"This punk album is too long" is not something I expected to ever say.
Personally, I think that album was much longer than it was worth, and not part really stood out much other than those jackass notes. 2/5
no me gusta
Saw this influenced groups like RHCP It did catch my ear initially but it’s a 2.6
yet another American punk rock album, I've had too many of these recently. 45 tracks in 81 minutes. I'm having a listen but it's all a bit mundane so far.
Not really my thing ig
This album has the simultaneous issue of being too long whilst also being too short.
I love punk music but this was so, so not for me. Spoken word ranting over garage band level music.
My attention span didn’t last as long as this album. The beginning was decent; I liked the music, the drums and guitar were engaging. The vocals weren’t great but they were fine. I was cleaning the house while listening and somewhere around me scrubbing the toilet I realized I hadn’t been paying attention anymore and I didn’t care enough to go back and relisten.
I was actually digging the groovy guitar licks and quick-tempo’d drums playing off each other at the onset of this album. The punk vocals and spoken word didn’t really agree with me much but I was tolerating them for the first 7 or so songs. …The problem is there were 36 more f**kin songs!!! Halfway through this album all I could think about was the sketch comedy skit from In Living Color where Damon Wayans bum character would sing 7 seconds songs about any topic he could think of. This album was giving off the same vibes. It would have been better received by me if there were 30 less songs and the lyrics were more powerfully arranged.
Jackass
Starts to grind at song 30
Solid evidence that "influential" and "important" doesn't have to mean "worth listening to." These dudes managed to start 43 songs but finish none.
The Minutemen certainly deserve their name: 43 songs here over a 74-minute running time. Now there are some as says that 43 songs is too many for an album that isn't spread over 2-3 CDs. I...would be one of them. Even though the average length is about 1'45, and they proceed apace and cram a lot into each song, it all feels too much. I'm off for a lie down.
Didn’t make it the full way through but from what I heard it wasn’t going anywhere.
no
74 minutes is entirely too long for that.
Oddly cohesive for having forty fecking songs
40+songs of two minute punk? Ok, let's go then. Each song is gone before you know it. This is definitely an album designed to be taken as an album on the whole. It's expected I'm gone. #1 hit song is quite funny, the guitar drips sarcasm. And yet other parts of this album are the dull pop songs parried by earlier songs Overall I think this album fails to meet it's own lofty expectations.
Wow more shouty angry men yelling at clouds for ten tracks. Yawn
Not my favorite. The singer's voice is pretty average and despite the meaningful lyrics I just didn't enjoy it much. So of the songs can be pretty cool, Brenden enjoyed more than me.
I would call this more garage rock, then punk rock but boy was there a lot of songs on this album overall not horrible
Gasped audibly when Corona started since that's the goddamn Jackass intro music and those few strums sent me back decades, mentally. But besides that, meh.
Corona is a standout song, Jackass did great using it. Rest of the album isn't very memorable.
Ok
I hate the vocals but appreciate the sentiments and the creativity and the bass. It's just so long and scattered. I'm fucking overwhelmed. I'm 25 tracks in and I give up.
No importa que algunas de estas 50 canciones esten bien, si me das no se cuantas canciones de minuto y medio que suenan todas iguales me perdes por completo lo siento
Liked this more than I was expecting to. Had some solid tunes. Don’t know if I would give this a repeat listen, but for a genre I don’t really care for, it had some enjoyable moments.
Idk, it all sounds the same to me and if point was to have many different songs it kinda fails
Sounds rough and raw, but there are a couple decent songs
I found this very interesting, like a sketchpad of ideas for proper songs.
It was ok in its eclectic way. There was nothing that made me jump up and down with excitement. So I am pleased this album passed me by.
Meh. I really enjoyed the drum tone, and it was super playful, but it kind of felt nothing burger
I realize I am violating some oath here, but let's face it this band is not very good and there's way too much of it. But they seem like they're having fun and that is what it is all about.
A few songs we’re just ok, could listen again, but probably won’t.
Sounds like if David Byrne made bad music.
It's long, it's confusing with its 43 songs and musically not super interesting to me.
Massively mixed feelings about this one, it was just so hit-and-miss, and it went on for WAY too long. There's absolutely no way this album needed to be as long as it is. The guitar and drums are generally quite interesting and fun. There's lots going on, it's varied, there's some really great riffs and it's overall just quite enjoyable to listen to. That being said, some tracks are just bad. I can't easily pick out specifics because I totally lost track at some point. I think maybe "You Need The Glory" was one that I was just waiting to end. The vocals don't do it for me. They feel weak compared to the pretty decent instrumentals, and they just ruin a lot of tracks. It's like you have this pretty decent band having a nice jam and playing some really funky rock, and then one of the band member's little brother comes in and starts shouting nonsense over the top of it because their parents said they had to include him. Would have been a 3 based on the instrumentals, but with the vocals and the overall length of the album just turning it into a bit of an ordeal to get through, I'm going to have to drop it to a 2. They're a band I'd be happy to listen to the occasional track from, but I'd never listen to this album again.
I feel like I start to get into the groove of a song and then it ends... It's a shame because I'm generally enjoying each song but then I have to move on early :( I gave this album a break every 10 or so songs and I found myself rejuvenated and ready to listen to and take in the next set of songs. But even with this method the last 10 songs felt like a slog... I found myself unable to tell when a new song had started or if they were just jamming out to finish a song. The song length and amount of songs make this album so much worse. You have to be doing something ridiculously impressive to justify an album this long imo and this just isn't that. High 2.
Somewhat strange
Didn’t know what to make of this. Disliked the format, enjoyed some of the content but fragments. Not keen to hear it again.
Låter rätt funky och med en hel del intressanta influenser, men såhär otroligt många och korta låtar gav mig ett ofokuserat helhetsintryck som jag hade svårt att riktigt ta till mig.
Mycket.
80s punk rock. Doesn’t feel cohesive, can’t get into anny songs. Way too long.
Musically an interesting mix of punk rock, funk and jazz, that's nice. Lyrics are good, but the vocal delivery is very tiring to me. Also this sounds like a bunch of very short demo snippets rather than finished songs.
Equal parts interesting/quirky and annoying/garbage. A bit of a mixed bag compared to a lot of the punk so far but it's getting a 2.5, the .5 because of the Jackass song.
A little too punk for me.
sympa mais vraiment trop long, et difficile d'écouter les titres seuls faut se faire le tunnel d'un coup
Album MUITO grande 43 musicas, mas a maioria tem por volta de 1 min e meio. Tem uma pegada meio experimental sei la, as musicas sã bem diferentes entre si. Achei maneiro, mas acho q não ouviria dnv
A fair amount of this was straight-up goofy, a precursor to some of Blink’s humor. I was pretty down on this album until Take 5, D. That “side” of the album was right up my alley. A neat punk-ish album. Probably best enjoyed when played live in a gross basement bar.
There's parts of this that is extremely my shit but dear god why are their 43 tracks. there's a solid 11 album in there but maybe this nonsense worked better in the 80s.
Funk/post hardcore? 40 tracks? Just comes across as a jumbled mess of ideas but I'm guessing it's the punk hipsters choice.
That was exactly what I remember the Punk Rick era to be. Outside of a few really talented groups most of it was sub par musicians playing songs that were nasty, brutish, and short. I didn’t skip any of them, so it wasn’t that bad.
I am a fan of this style of music, but in very small doses. This is too much in one setting for me. 2.75
Too raw. Terrible production.
Not my genre, sounds ok but I think I prefer lyrical works rather than isntrumental
Interesting stuff
guitar is ok
Would describe it as punk-ish, I don’t love it. Also, it has so many songs, holy moly. Stand-outs - History Lesson Part 2 - Dr. Wu
Three songs in and this sounds incredibly lame. Like the worst of generic 80s punk. Oh wait, track four, "Cohesion", an instrumental, played on what sounds like a 12 string, finally indicates they have more sounds in their quiver than straight ahead punk. Sigh, spoke too early, back to uninspiring straight ahead punk on track 5. I was beginning to think that "Cohesion" was a mirage in an endless desert of power chords, when finally track 8 "Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?". Beautiful arrangement, but more lame lyrics. Also, it is very clear by this point that Dennes Dale Boones' voice truly unappealing. I can imagine that they were probably a fun show to attend live, but the album is truly underwhelming. It was truly punk to make an album with 43 songs, but as a middle aged person some 40 years on, I don't have the patience for this nonsense. Don't think I will be listening to this again in the future. Don't really believe it has a place being on this list. I feel like the singer's tragic death, at such a young age unfairly biased the critics view of this album.
The kind of album people pretend to like
Self aware enough to make the songs short, not self aware enough to keep the album under an hour. I do enjoy the funky bass tho
plays like a long ass demo
Cool but weird
I have no idea what kind of album I just listened too. It was all over the place.
Meh, it just didn't seem that special to me. I was into punk back in the 90s, and this probably would not have caught my attention even then. The beginning of Corona definitely brings back Jackass memories, but still not enough to get me excited about this album.
43 songs and not a one of 'em is good. impressive work, boys.
Did not know this was the album that Corona came from. Pretty generic 80's punk album otherwise. Good summer punk vibes. 4/10
It's alright. Don't think I'd listen again
It's got a lot of fun ideas like guided by voices but super short. I felt alien lanes had greater diversity and more polish
a lot of the songs sound very similar. not my favorite album.
Min tuppkam växte tillbaka lite :) Gillade musiken, men på tok för långt album, blir trött i huvudet av att sträcklyssna. Svårt för "spoken word"-musik tyvärr, det tar ner betyget till en tvåa
Random live track? Don't like the structure with 44 tracks and a bunch of them really short. By track 35 I'm exhausted and ready for it to be over. Way too long, could use some curation here. Some fun jams on here that I like but probably a by track revisit and not an album listen through.
A long double album with a mixture of punk rock, jazz and alternative. This kind of punk music is good and clever. Some songs are fresh sounding, and I appreciate the musicianship. But there are 45 songs on it and many of them aren't that great, which make the album disjointed and not compact, it just flows from one song to another. A short compact album with 10-15 songs would have been perfect. Strong 2 stars.
Must be pretty busy in the heads that created this.
This is cacophony. Calling this the best rock album of the 80s is like calling hitler a good guy. Genuinely what?? The tracks are all 1-2 minutes long, none really have a theme of some sort, it's just bad.
Alkuun piti otteessaan funkkiviboineen, mutta lopulta mitta otti meikästä yliotteen ja levyn kuuntelu kääntyi väsytystaistoksi. Hävisin.
Please god no more punk music
Well I listened to it…
That was something
It has long been my contention that almost all halfway decent double albums would have actually made much stronger (maybe even outstanding) single albums. In this case, maybe if it had been trimmed down to a single EP it could have been okay. When an album's most memorable tracks are on a side named "Chaff," you just aren't trying hard enough to edit and balance out the worst impulses of the group's three members.
Did Minutemen just invent a new genre to mask a lack of talent?
Didn't enjoy it.
At first i thought i've already listened to this album here. It seems I did it on some other list not a long time ago. I didn't like it and not going to go through this again. It's not bad it's just whatever
Sei lá, não acho que entendi a proposta
Didn’t know the dudes that hung out behind 7-eleven at midnight every weekend drinking 40’s decided to start a band.
Aside from the obvious hit in Corona, it's alright.
Ikke så bra
Unlistenable. I was born in the right generation.
This was kind of like torture for me. 43 songs?! Over an hour of this? This is a sick joke. But I listen and the streak of listening to every album all the way through is intact.
Today I found out where the jackass theme tune came from
2.5 It’s a bummer because I love the instrumentals here. This feels like something I should dig. But I just can’t get on board with the vocals, and there’s just no variety in the style of song here, and it’s really almost 90 minutes long.
Surprisingly groovy. Vietnam slam poetry vibes. Reflects on self and society. Overall, not my thing. Tracks I liked: Cohesion Maybe Partying Will Help Favorite lyrics: "What of the people that don't got what I ain't got? Are they victims of my leisure?
DNF, it had like 50 songs
ass
Weird as shit pop/rock/punk mash up with extra weirdness plastered all over it, not to mention how much too long the album is. Plays like a NoMeanNo record without a direction. The sound of the band is kind of thin, I understand the idea that each instrument sounds like itself, but that also makes for a boring sound, distinctive in the punk landscape yes, but boring. I've never really enjoyed the US punk movement that much, I'm liking UK and especially the Finnish variations a lot more.
While it's not too bad, the album is far too long and I found myself getting bored. High 2/5.
Meh, not something I would put in my rotation. Definitely would not say it is "one of the very best American rock albums of the 1980s", as mark Deming stated. Mr. Deming obviously did not listen to much music.
Fun and creative album, punk rock with jazz influences. There are many songs here, all very short but high in quality. Loved the bass and drumming! Not something I usually listen to, but I had a good time. Favorite tracks: Cohesion Do you want new wave or do you want the truth Corona
Crazy that this album had 43 songs. Too bad none of them were any good. There were a couple of listenable songs I guess but for the most part is was self indulgent.
I just couldn’t get into this album with the discordant chords and lack of musicality.
Idk man felt like he was kinda just talking at me
I appreciate the format. I don’t appreciate the anger.
I wish the vocals matched the standard of the backing instrumentals. This is what if punk filtered through other genres. It's decent, I guess. 2.5 The Jack-ass theme randomly appearing was fun, also much different once you get past the initial riffs.
Minner mye om RHCP, og ser at de har vært en inspirasjon for dem. Godt driv og gode musikere. Trekk for vokal. Liker rett og slett ikke stemmen.
not for me
1,6/5
I have travelled in alternative music circles since back in the day when alternative music really was an alternative. And the Minutemen were one of those bands that you read about a lot, but didn't hear much in Australia, at least, where SST albums were cursed with terrible distribution and were expensive. There are things I admire about the Minutemen; short punchy songs, a refusal to be bound by genre limitations, the whole "we jam econo" thing. But I have tried to listen to Double Nickels before, and gave it another good attempt today. And the listening experience just ain't great for me. the singing is pretty mediocre, the songs repetitious, it often veers into being too clever-clogs. In fact, it has many of the worst features of prog -- jazz influences, "clever" playing, lots of time signature changes -- all packaged up in a bloated double album. I can't help wonder if, had this been a 15 song album of around 30 minutes, I would love it to death. But I just can't do the self-indulgent sprawl. It tries my patience after about one side.
Fartei-me um pouco…
fine but boring
Wow, what is this? As a general rule I think it's a good idea to record 10 great songs rather than 45 random throwaways, there was a lot of rubbish here, but in a burst of generosity I have decided to award a bonus mark for shameless temerity.
Not a fan.
Schizo rambling? Some good production but it is too chaotic for me
It is way too long and exhausting to be an enjoyable listen. I managed to get halfway through it, and that half was okay.
I’ll give Minutemen credit for being influential in the 80s punk scene, but this album was just way too much. A 43-song double LP is a tall order even if the music is varied, and here it all kind of blurs together. After a while, every track started to sound the same, and instead of feeling exciting, it just felt overwhelming. There are definitely flashes of talent and energy, and I can see why the album gets respect for pushing boundaries in punk. But as a listening experience, it was exhausting. Short, sharp songs are great, but packing 43 of them into one record makes it hard to stay invested.
Erratic, inconsistent, and somewhat abrasive. Glimmers of hope but mostly tiresome.
A pesar de que varios temas han sido de mi agrado, escuchar un álbum de 1 hora y 20 minutos se me hace bastante pesado, incluso con canciones que duran menos de minuto y medio. Está claro que no me gusta demasiado el punk. 2/5
I like the percussion.
unique, funky, punky.
this sounds like they had fun making it 2.5*
I confess I am not a fan
Meh. Must be one of those "this time in history" albums. Don't think it stood the test of time.
This is a very long and not very cohesive album. I like a lot of the experimentation with fusing punk and all sorts of other genres but that also left me missing a clearer through-line. This can work. I've heard this kind of album work before. But those albums also didn't have 43 tracks that switch style every 2 minutes. Nothing had time to leave a lasting impression on me, and then something new came along Standouts - 2/5
MTV Jackass theme song on it. It was the only song I recognized. Went on too long. Is this post punk? Because I don’t like it
It’s like listening to a stereotype it’s hilarious 4/10
Not wild about the guitar work or the vocals.
I do not like this But I wonder if they influenced Red Hot Chili Peppers bc man, that guy was SLAPPE DE BÄSS MON
I didn’t find much enjoyment out of this selection. I don’t think it’s downright terrible, but it just wasn’t my thing at all. It’s also way too long, so it eventually became annoying.
The music was great, the vocals were painful
This album is really personally divisive, I feel really stuck on how to rate... First impression, its awful. I get it writing short songs are their thing, but doing it over and over just feels like you don't actually know how to write a song, you just have an idea for what a song could be but you can't actually write a full song. The guy's voice is not great and after a while they all started to sound similar. They hide behind a label of punk to try and hide that they can't write a song. Reflecting on the lyrics of some of the songs, I like where they were going. I also appreciate some of the songs that have more of the folk sounds (Corona was one). Which made me think maybe I am not getting it and maybe there is something here if I think about it more. But then I went the other way again and after 43 samples I should like at least one or two of the songs. Punk is about making you think and causing a little discourse but its about the world around not the very essence of the album. So yeah...I will rate on my gut impression
Not for me. I usually like a bit of hardcore. But this did nothing for me
This was ok. I see why it’s included in top lists (even if it’s just as filler). It just didn’t really push my pleasure points in the right way.
I like the music and instrumentation way more than the vocals. The vocals actually take it down a few pegs.
So much Bowie is on this list that sometimes it feels like it’s about quantity over quality. This album made no impact on me other than the strangely uninspired cover art.
It was fun to hear the Jackass theme song but this mostly sounded like the worst song on a Red Hot Chili Peppers album.
Pre-listening thoughts: 43 songs is actually absurd. This almost doubles the Guided by Voices album which had 28 songs and the Frank Black album which had 22, and I complained about how many songs are on those. Like that is just nuts Post/during listening thoughts: like am I supposed to gain something from 1-2 min songs? It’s as if someone changed the radio station just as I was getting into every song. And yes, I am one million percent going to reference the episode of Zach Stone where he makes songs so short they could be ringtones. This is maybe the worst offender of albums that I’ve had to pull that reference with bc the songs are legit so short. Just in the time I’ve typed this portion of the review, four songs have gone by. And I’m not even writing that much. I do think the guitar and bass lines are really cool though on the whole. Very Bloc Party meets Talking Heads. But I don’t like the lead singers voice and I don’t like it when he just talks over a song. He doesn’t have a nice enough voice to pull that off. 4/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no Fav snippets: Theater is the Life of You, the instrumentals Least fav snippets: It’s Expected I’m Gone, One Reporters Opinion, any spoken word, You Need the Glory
This is weird af. While I like pink and I can see that there is some punk in here - it's just a long drawn out art rock type album. 2 stars
not great
3/10 - there were like 40 songs I didn’t really like any of them. They were all bad in different ways. Some of the songs were kind of just noise
Music is ok but lots of political speak talking over music is annoying
Not bad. Usually not my usual kind of music, but I enjoyed some of the songs.
I always liked this band.
2 good songs, a dozen shit songs.
Just many odd choices through out the album. Not for me
When the theme from Jackass came on it helped get my review into words. There's some good groove here; something like The Glory of Man is showing it off well. Man there's so many songs here and they don't all do almost anything. This joins the review of "this is perfect for what it's trying to be but what it's trying to be isn't the best". I feel like this is rebellion music for suburban kids who gave their parents speeches about how they didn't want to get a job and be a cog in the machine before asking or borrow the car.
Pretty solid sonically, good dynamic mix. Good musicianship, but the rhythm gets a little repetitive on the first 3 tracks. This acoustic instrumental track is a nice break I'm not sure what to do with this. There is a lot here and it admittedly even has the chaff included. A bit of a jam band here. There are some nice songs and it sounds good, but as an album it lacks cohesion.... oh there it is, track 4. Didn't notice.
I’m a big fan of punk music. However, I absolutely despise jazz and funk. This album was more jazz and funk than punk and I really hated it. Terrible vocals, annoying bass lines, awfully busy guitar. There is not a single mémorable song on this album
Long...so long...
Too long but fun
There's a lot of it and I mostly wasn't able to get into it.
43 songs is too many songs.
Miksi joka toinen biisi kuulostaa tutulta - onko niin perus kitaralla soitetut melodiat vai soiko nää paljon jossain? Ihan hassunhauska a-puoli, kun vekkuloidaan erilaisten äänitysten kanssa. Mut kuka antoi luvan jatkaa levyä yli tuntiin?! Tekee mieli antaa ykkönen.
Koin tämän, no, teoksen, sympaattisemmaksi kuin kuvittelin. Bändin maailmassa ei ole olemassa pituutta eikä lyhyyttä, ajallisessa mielessä siis, eikä oikeastaan biisejäkään. Riffejä ja muita motiiveja siellä kuitenkin on, enkä ole vakuuttunut siitä, että tälle levylle olisi keksitty parhaat mahdolliset. Toisin sanoen koen ajatuksen toisesta kuuntelukerrasta vaikeaksi. 2+
Not for me x
If you are getting double nickels on the dime then you are breaking even... which is probably what this band is hoping for on this album. But unfortunately this album is boring and all the songs sound the same.
Umm it’s the morning after and I don’t have anything memorable to say. I didn’t hate it but it felt very gargled and unorganized, but maybe that’s the point? I probably won’t listen again but maybe I should
Not my jam, way to punk for me.
Kind of all over the place. Can never get a rhythm because there are 43 friggin songs on this thing and sounds experimental at best. Hardly enjoyable. Pick your best dozen songs or so, work on them, and make an album. Nobody needs to hear your bad bar recording on this thing. 4/10.
I like the general idea of having a bunch of very short songs on an album. But a lot of the songs just blended together, and the album was still too long.
I actually found this fun. The jackass song was nice to have in there, but the album as a whole had a rough charm to it. If it was half the length with the best songs I might be thinking 3 stars, but it was too long with too much stuff.
I appreciate the social commentary of the lyrics, and I’m sad that there are still some things we’re dealing with fourth years later. Also cool to see the Jackass theme pop up on this list, as I’m sure we’ll all mention. It was just really long and the short songs made it hard to find one to catch my attention and get into a groove. I’m wavering between a two and three, but I think I’ll go on the low end for this one.
I knew them only by the song Corona which was featured on jackass, I was surprised how good they really are,
I didn't even notice when it switched to a different album...
Talking Heads do this better
Meh
Не нужно слушать 1 час 43 минуты для того чтобы понять, что это херня
few good songs but its mostly just noise
It's fine, but not my cuppa.
Too long, too many fillers
It took me the longest time to get through this and while I remember liking certain parts of it, I have already forgotten them and am too fed up of it for a second listen.
Fine, but didn’t do anything for me.
Überlang. Kein Song stach hervor, aber die Titel waren kreativ.
Bleh.
Not gonna lie, towards the end especially that got to be a pretty grueling listen. As is becoming a common theme for me in earlier punk albums, the guitar work is really the sole saving grace. Especially on this album, the vocals, the length, and the lyrics are all pretty stark negatives. The length is only an issue because it never feels like the album goes anywhere, like the first couple of songs are almost indistinguishable from the last few. That's fine for a shorter album (is this it by the strokes, one of my all time favorite albums, comes to mind) but for an album of this length I need at least a little forward progression. The lyrics feel like they're often trying way too hard to imitate bob dylan with the whole stream of consciousness thing, and admittedly sometimes it does work, but those moments are few and far between. With that being said, it's not all bad: the guitar licks present in nearly every song are usually pretty enjoyable and don't usually get old. Overall, an album that I'll surely never think about again, unless I need a short song to learn on guitar when I'm bored. Best: Two beads on the end Worst: you need the glory Liked songs: 44%, 19/43 Mid 2
The very definition of "death by a thousand (two-minute or less) cuts". While I didn't find anything of particular value on this MULTI-album, I did pick up vibes here and there of other bands I do like... ones that have a more structured approach to actual song writing. So, in that regard, I'll give it a 2 for having the right ingredients set out on the counter... just wish they had bothered to bake the damn cake.
The songs were too short. They felt like they were building up to something, but failed to reach their climax. Leaving me with blue balls on several occasions. And, yet the album in its entirety was way too long. It outstayed its welcome. I wanted a pump and dump, not a long term commitment.
2/5 I'm docking points from this for being too long
ok but looooooong
Mostly some weird ass shit with a few moments of decent sounding music. 1.5 stars.
Not really for me.
I think 10-12 good songs would have been better than 40 meh songs, some of which are incredibly short. Probably wouldn't seek this one out again. Hearing the Jackass into on Corona was pretty funny though.
Okay but it really could have done with 10 good songs instead of having 40 mid songs
2,5
not bad but they all sound the same.
Feels like a guy talking at random volumes and varying energy levels over an okay instrumental, for 43 straight songs Actual lyric : "TWINKLE TWINKLE...blah blah blah" They were just blasted as hell in the studio and saying whatever random garbage came to mind FOR FORTY THREE SONGS. 1.5 rounded up, not unlistenable just super meh
No memorable tracks. Heavy on the bass. Sounds like a poor man’s primus and I don’t really like primus. Decent album I suppose. Will never listen to it again though.
Didn’t hate this, but also didn’t think I’d ever get to the end of it.
This album was an exercise in endurance for me. I think I would have enjoyed it a bit more if I heard most of the songs with the vocals removed. Indeed, it is only some decent musicianship that keeps me from giving a single star. Instead, it just about deserves two, in my view.
Endless warm up jam
God this got boring quick. I don’t mind longer albums but when they feel longer than they already are, that’s when I start to have a problem
A band called Minutemen should not be allowed to release an hour-long album
How to turn one hour into three. Some good songs but lost amongst the chaos.
Start off quite eclectic. Then it just too long. I think the Red Hot Chili Peppers owe these guys a debt.
Strange pop.
I didn't realise cutting every song in half could make an album feel three times as long... what a load of nothing! Favourite track: The World According to Nouns.
So long, not for me
Especie de punk bastante extraño. hipnótico. Un 2.
Punk. No me ha enganchado ninguna canción.
It's ok but the jazz funk punk cross over is hard to love.
Sometimes I’d be into it and other parts I could not stand. Like there’s a part that sounds like he’s trying to scat while imitating a ghost. Idk man.
It wants to be punk, but its political without the anger. Pass
didn't get it
Alkuun piti otteessaan funkkiviboineen, mutta lopulta mitta otti meikästä yliotteen ja levyn kuuntelu kääntyi väsytystaistoksi. Hävisin.
Unusual, not really my thing if I’m honest
Not horrible for punk. 2.23
Some interesting stuff, but I lost interest about halfway through this too long album since it all got a bit same-y. 2.5
This album is at times both funky and beautiful. But most of the time it's ironic, noisy without a reason, and just like every other punk that should have better ways to serve society. I wish it was the other way around.
This is a seminal, respected, essential work by a legendary punk band? Awesome. Love that for you.
A lot of the same. And not really keen on his somewhat shouty and flat vocals. Some decent guitarwork - Cohesion a good example of this. Oh, I probably like it because there are no vocals! A bit long and self-indulgent. Some decent drums. But those annoying vocals! Aaagh.
One reasonable track, 'Cohesion' has nice acoustic guitar. I don't like anything else. I guess it's on here because it mixes low-fi rock with funk and (almost) jazz but I don't like it.
Unjustifiably bloated, no offence but it shouldn’t be on the list.
Some good some rubbish, too many songs. 45 is absurd
Not my cup o' tea.
Why is this mediocre, endless album on this list?
Not my jam really.
There were moments I enjoyed the album, and probably would have scored it higher, but then It droned on and on and seemed like a bunch of random brain farts rather than any genius. I’m glad I listened but would never listen again. Moments of brilliance lost in randomness.
Americans don't do punk. Mostly boring and pretentious
It's pretty basic and pleasant- innocent and amateurish. Bless them- it's a nice record. Not Punk and not worthy of the top 1001 albums.
The singing was wacko
It's long in tracks whcih was intimdating when starting the album, In reality the songs are short length, quick, loud and catchy. Quality punk!! but not something I would listen to again Favourite song: Nothing really jumped out to me as a wow song. Nothing was long enough to lend itself to be a favourtie. Least favourite: cohesion. I couldnt see the point in this song. Album artwork: Meh
Uppenbart talangfulla musiker för när det är bra är det riktigt bra, särskilt instrumentellt. Det är dock ALLDELES för mycket skräp, utfyllnad, trams och allmänt mindre lyckade låtar, vilket bitvis innebär rätt plågsam lyssning. Det pretentiösa greppet med 45 korta låtar är heller ingen höjdare. Hade de valt ut de 10-15 bästa låtarna och gjort dem till fullängdare hade den här skivan fått ett mycket högre betyg.
Just okay
No grand impressions. It's just kinda there.
Not the worst, but far from the best.
This album just did not resonate with me. Over 40 songs taking about an hour and a quarter to get through. Did not HAVE to hear this one...sorry!
didn't grab me as much as i hoped or expected it to. will give it a few more listens before comingg to my final view on it, but for now two stars. i respect it, that's for sure
Mmh
I'm giving this album a 2. I hate everything about this band, this album, everything. But it gives me a very specific nostalgia that I can't help but feel happy. I hate that the most.
Man hinner ju inte tycka om en låt förrän den är slut.
Non mi fa impazzire sto genere 2
More like two-minute-men, ha. +1 for inventive song titles and for making the theme song to Jackass. 2/5
Not my style. A few songs are okay, mostly the softer ones.
Probably would have liked it if all the songs weren’t 90 seconds or less
# Playlist Track - Corona # Notes - I really did enjoy some moments here and there. Very interesting opening, instrumentals and rhythms. But it goes away in a second. And it's replaced by some nonsensical weird thing that is not fun at all. - I appreciate the punk expression and the sheer courage of releasing 43 short songs. I really do. But it doesn't make the album a better experience. - Recommended to punk fans and folks interested in music history only.
I had high hopes starting out. But soon found it repetitive: drum, bass, jangly elec guitar. Yes, there are songs that are very different, but my overall takeaway is a lot of the same. Others have done it better or at least more entertainingly, esp the speak-singing (early Talking Heads, B-52s). And OMG: 43 songs!
I listen to this and sit amazed that bands I loved never made it bigger---Lowjack, Hijack, Bunnyplasm. Maybe Adler will be a rock-n-roller after all? It all sounded flat. Can't stand the singers voice. I don't understand what makes this "hardcore" but it doesn't matter enough for me to try and answer that. Blah.
Maybe I need to give it more of a chance?
I hear a lot of Primus, Early Chili Peppers, and Rollins Band. Funky and assertive. Nothing I particulalrly enjoyed tho.
Meh
The music is not bad, but it just didn’t do it for me. Too long album and the short songs make it hard to get into the album. Maybe I should try again some time..
Enjoyable to begin with, and hey it's the Jackass theme, but really could have done with dumping at least 15 tracks.
This was tedious.
Decent musicianship, but when you take funk instrumentals with punk vocals, you lose me. Not really bad, but not for me
The runtime really killed any momentum I had enjoying this project, I also imagine that due to the sheer volume of music, it makes this very forgettable. Yeah punk music, whatever- I can’t stay interested for 40+ songs especially when they are too short. They absolutely shred tho!
Ok, but not for me 2/5
Ok
It was ok but got a bit bored, did wonder how many people who bought this originally listened to all 4682 tracks
Interesting mix—way more complex than most other punk music. Overall, it's annoyingly long. After I listened to half of the songs, I had a strong urge to stop it. I don't think that they had enough good songs to actually fill a double album.
What in the heck is this album? it reminds me of a band doing an extended set at a house party. Maybe Partying Will Help fits the vibe. This Ain't No Picnic is also in there.
Not my thing
Pretty wild that they have 43 songs on this album and yet it’s only 70 something minutes. What an interesting combo of punk jazz funk. Not something I really enjoyed but thanks to Jackass I will always like listening to Corona. Their style is quick fast and fun. It’s pretty good. Just not for me. 4.8/10
These guys are like a punk jam band. The songs are all still like 1:30 long, but the singer only sings for maybe 30 seconds of each song, so I guess that's punk's version of a jam band. It's a double album. 43 songs. Still gets done in 1hr 14 mins. They just seem to amble about and not really accomplish much. I mean it's not bad, but it just has no direction. Interestingly, they apparently did the Jack Ass theme song, Corona. Favourite songs: Corona, My Heart and the Real World, Viet Nam, The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts, #1 Hit Song Least favourite songs: "Take 5, D.", You Need the Glory, Nature Without Man, No Exchange, Jesus and Tequila 2/5
No to the vocals. Some instrumentals ok but overall did not like this very long and short songs album.
Bisschen anstrengender Funk-Rock
Some nice bass lines and guitar but just not my thing. Interesting there were 43 songs and many of them short. Enjoyed the tracks without lyrics a lot more than those with them.
Surprisingly talented for a punk group. But just not really my taste
This album is all over the place! One second I’m bopping like yeah there are some cool guitar riffs here and then the next minute it sounds like a bad recording of the karaoke bar
i was actually quite enjoying this until i realised how fucking long it was. I'd rather eat bees than listen to 45 tracks.
SHACK eats bees whilst watching Dennis Taylor play snooker.
Really jarring having all these 60-90 second songs. It felt like a demo tape in that they had all these ideas that they wanted to record, without really developing them. Maybe that's more a comment on me not being open minded enough, but I didn't like it
i mostly zoned and forgot i was listening to this as i was. could i write poetry to this? n
Where to start with this one? 80s punk, and like very punk-y punk. This thing was 81 minutes and 43 songs, so crunch the numbers and you get a very long album with an average song length under 2 minutes. And they're all a bit chaotic. I'm realizing that I struggle a bit with the more raw, unstructured punk bands, which this felt like to me. I do get the appeal, it's simple and \"real\". They're saying screw the establishment, we're going to have three dudes playing whatever we want and singing about bad shit that's happening. And honestly I appreciate someone doing something different at this time, there was a lot of crap getting made then too. One of the songs on here is literally called \"Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?\", I take it they didn't love New Wave, I'm mostly with them). But man, it's hard to listen to an over an hour of this. The singer is really raw, there's not a ton going on musically that's super interesting, it's just a bit tough. I get the appeal, but it's not super \"enjoyable\" to just sit down and listen to, I think you need to be in a real specific headspace for this. It does seem to have had an impact on future punk though, this is still the fairly early-ish days of punk rock so I can see it being influential for what came later. The singer also died a very tragic death in a car accident which led to the band disbanding not long after this, which is a real shame. Favorite song: Corona Other: Viet Nam, Cohesion, Maybe Partying Will Help, The Glory of Man, History Lesson Part 2, No Exchange 12/6/23
Not really my style.
Corona // 1.5/5
3.5/10
Feels like a punk version of a jam band. Eccentric mix of music
Þokkalegt, vantar samt einhvern neista í þetta.
They are referred to as punk but they’re more like political rock. I’m not a fan.
Too long
Not for me
Too much, yet not enough to keep me interested.
43 songs? Seriously?
Quirky post-punk distraction from more serious works. Listen once. Enjoy. Move on.
Wasn’t my style
As a whole I’m not a huge fan of this album. It’s a little aggressive and not very poetic in my opinion. I can respect it for what it is and I understand why people would like this kind of music. The guitar and drums are excellent and the number of awesome riffs they came up with for these songs is impressive.
I will reserve judgment, but this is a 40-track album, and I am not a fan of that. Some of these seem like they just had the band in the studio doing random riffs and whatnot, then decided to just put it in. It's okay, but feels unfinished. A high 2/5
No album should be 75 mins long. At that length you’d think there would some semblance of melody somewhere, but not here. I get that in 1984 that Double Nickels on the Dime must have hit hard for some people, but I’m not sure it’s aged all that well. 5.1/10
3/38, 8%
I appreciate the style that they were trying to do. Acoustic punk is hard to accomplish. Some songs stood out, but the album as a whole fell short.
vocals: 1/5 instrumentals: 4/5 I liked the jazz influence. I'd appreciate the album much, much more if it had only instrumentals.
weird, disjointed and too long. not into this at all.
That was pretty much a slog to get thru. A few great songs aside, it was a mess.
ganz okay, aber viel zu lang und iwie nix besonderes overall
I had never heard of Minutemen befroe and there was only one track (out of 45) from Double Nickels On The Dime that I recognized ("Corona" because it was the theme song for Jackass). There are so many short tracks on this album. It feels like a punk album but not quite the same kind of punk as the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. "June 16th" was my favorite track, perhaps because it wasn't burdened with lyrics. Several tracks got a definite "do not like" because of the lyrics and vocals. A shorter album with a selection of the tracks could have got a higher rating from me. With so many tracks on this album and so many that I would skip on a re-listen, Double Nickels On The Dime does not reach "I guess it was okay".
This has proto RHCP vibes
Have you ever been to an expensive restaurant where they serve a silly amount of very small dishes and your left with a lighter wallet and still feel hungry, this was that in audio form.
Felt like men in a garage —silverlake would like this
Not a fan of this album.
Not amazing. Maybe one or two okay songs
Where has this even come from? It's completely new to me, although I don't think any punk album should ever be a double. Apart from the Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, obvs. Bailed after 14 tracks - the ideal length.
Some stuff sounded cool but never felt as complete songs
It has some interesting bits but overall its way too noisy and way too long.
This semi-funk, semi-almost ska or something was just not for me... "I can make seconds feel hours" - yeah he can.
Goed punkalbum, maar ik ben geen punkfan. Te korte nummers, en te chaotisch voor mijn smaak. 2 sterren voelt als te weinig omdat ik goed kan inzien waarom mensen dit wel leuk vinden. Maar ik vind het persoonlijk gewoon niet leuk om naar te luisteren en kan het dus niet hoger geven.
I did not understand why this album was on the list until..." Jackass," and I finally got the reason. It makes a lot of sense now (🤪). But seriously, I enjoyed the album a little bit; I guess they were a bit ahead of their time when they released this album in 84, but for my 2023 ears, it sounds a little bit old-fashion punk/post-punk that did not get old in the best form. It's enjoyable but forgettable at the same level.
A man shouting over frantic drum beats and guitar fills for an hour and a half, couldn’t finish it
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