Double Nickels On The Dime

Brauch ich nicht

I appreciate the need and the place in history of thei band and LP. It does strike me as "punk for punks sake", i.e. just making music to piss off the man. Mission accomplished. Note to future would be punkers: It's okay to have a catchy melody and hook. ;)

Nope.

Another 89’s band rock? Not sure. Music is strange.

Felt like an album of sounds but maybe it was my mood today but I couldn't wait for the album to finish.

Not for me

Weer een lange zit. Ze kunnen wel spelen, doen dat ook af en toe, maar wat moeten we er verder mee? Zeikzang met een sacherijnige toon. Middelmaat, onkunde, gebrek aan talent en er-met-de-pet-naar-gooierij uitgesmeerd over vier plaatkanten. En veels, veels, veels te lang. Lang... Het is zo saai. Lang... Het is zo saai. En een diepe zucht wanneer het eindelijk is afgelopen.

43 songs too long. 1/10

Poor

Cringe

Klinkt alsof het de eerste demo moet voorstellen

What a load of rubbish

Did NOT enjoy and about 100 songs too many on this album

First off: I'm not a big fan of punk rock, and I usually don't like double LPs (most aren't worth their time, in my opinion). Well, this album definitely doesn't change my mind at all. The singing is terrible, the music is middling at best, and at 80 minutes long, this may be the longest punk rock album I've ever listened too.

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At times, this verges upon “listenable”, but is largely not.

This was awful. I’d never heard of them, so when I saw it billed as “punk” I was keen to listen. Nothing “punk” about this at all. American college garage rock would be a more apt description. Only hints at being “punk” if it were punk performed by privileged white frat boys bored out of school. Instantly forgettable songs, terrible lyrics and not much going for it at all. I genuinely question (again) why this has made any list. No emoticon for half a star.

About all its worth.

Not my taste , would give no stars if possible

The only thing holding this band back is their inability to write a decent fucking song. Mostly it's a punk-funk fusion smeared with spoken word, recorded so effectless and lo-fi that it could be their demo tape. A FORTY FUCKING THREE song demo tape. Sure, let's put that live version of Don't Look Now on our album that we recorded with a ghetto blaster. Many of the songs just seem like they are fucking around and the idea of throwing in everything we got makes this unlistenable. In it's best moments it reminds me a little of Fugazi (but not as good... and Fugazi is not really a GREAT band). A word about spoken word songs. Few bands are able to pull them off well. Here's a few I can think of that are actually good: Detachable Penis by King Missile, The Gift by Velvet Underground, Stuart by Dead Milkmen, Pollo Asado by Ween. None of these Minutemen songs are nearly as good as any of those so when I see the title Shit from an Old Notebook, I roll my eyes and cringe. I've actually heard Political Song For Michael Jackson to Sing before. It's the only song on this album I like. I wish MJ WAS singing it because this guy's vocals are awful. The one thing I thought was decent was the bass playing and I was ready to give it a 2 but the fact that this is 43 songs long just pisses me off so it's oneseville for this.

Qué buena idea, un álbum de casi 50 canciones. Para nada infumable. Un bodrio interminable. Hoy si, clavo 1. Nota: 1.1

Out of 43 songs, the 4th song, Cohesion is a good listen. It's because there is no singing on it.

das dritte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Punkband Minutemen. Es wurde 1984 veröffentlicht und zählt zu den einflussreichsten Alben der 1980er-Jahre. Die Band, bestehend aus Mike Watt (Bass, Gesang), D. Boon (Gitarre, Gesang) und George Hurley (Schlagzeug), prägte mit ihrem mix aus Punk, Funk, Rock und Jazz viele spätere Musiker. Die Aufnahmen fanden in verschiedenen Studios statt, darunter das Radio Tokyo Studio in Los Angeles. Das Album besteht aus 45 kurzen Tracks, die sich durch die Mischung aus verschiedenen Musikstilen und einer Mischung aus politischen und persönlichen Texten auszeichnen. Zu den herausragenden Songs gehören „This Ain’t No Picnic“, „Corona“ und „The Glory of Man“. Besonders bemerkenswert ist die Vielseitigkeit der Band, die in den Songs sowohl aggressive Punk-Energie als auch experimentelle Klänge integriert. Double Nickels On The Dime ist geprägt von der DIY-Ethik des Punk und bietet zugleich eine breitere musikalische Palette. Der Einfluss des Albums auf die Entwicklung des Alternative Rocks und Post-Punks ist nicht zu unterschätzen. Im Fazit ist das Album ein bemerkenswertes Werk, das nicht nur die musikalischen Grenzen des Punkgenres sprengt, sondern auch als künstlerisches Statement in der Musikgeschichte bleibt. Die Minutemen schaffen es, in jeder Sekunde des Albums einen frischen Blick auf Punk zu werfen, ohne dabei die Prinzipien ihres Ursprungs zu verraten.

The big problems on this album occur when the lead singer tries to sing. I mean… no. When he talks or yells it goes on, but when he actually tries to sing on key? Painful. The instrumental musicians are good. This probably should have been two or three separate albums. Over an hour of this group was way more than I wanted to hear.

Had to turn it off halfway through. Dude's voice is so irritating when he's doing that aggressive yelly-type singing

Heard of the band but haven't listened to their music (although according to lastfm I listened to one song from the album aaages ago). This album is so messy and not in a good way. As we say in Polish, every song "is from a different parish". It just sounds so... random and has way too many tracks. And it's not a type of punk I enjoy. The only surprising thing from this album is the Jackass intro song?? I had no idea it's their song 1/5

This album was a meandering pile of junk to me. The songs had no central theme, and much like one of the titles of their songs, it was “shit from an old notebook” and it felt that way. I wanted it to be over, I got whiplash going from song to song.

Not for me. 1/5

Ah yes, Corona! Don't touch me I'm pretty sure they were just messing around without realising they were being recorded. Bet they're embarrassed. They should be

Didn't like any song. I couldn't make it through the whole album too many songs. Only nice surprise was when I came across the Jackass theme and even then that was quickly ruined by the singing.

I knew I was picky when it came to rock but damn. This one really lives up to the “ass vocals, good instrumentals” trope. I loved the snappy bass and drums, and the guitar is what you want in an alt rock band. It’s just the vocals are ASS. It’s odd bc I love free/experimental styles but this really scratched my brain wrong. Really think it was just the vocals, bc they were MUCH better in “Corona” but most others were a tough listen :^|

No.

This is the 4th album I’m rating. I’ve heard the name of this album and Minutemen before but I have no idea what genre they are or anything about them. I think I can assume they are rock and good though but now it’s time to listen to the music. Anxious Mo-Fo - Not Adding to my Playlist. Please tell me the other 44 songs aren’t like this. I can’t do this. Theatre is the Life of You - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t like this singing. Viet Nam - Not Adding to my Playlist. The opening is good but it just repeats for the entire song. I really don’t like this singing. Side Mike is probably better. Cohesion - Not Adding to my Playlist. Honestly best song so far. It’s Expected I’m Gone - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t think I’ve listened to punk before. I hate punk now. #1 Hit Song - Not Adding to my Playlist. Shitty lyrics but I think that was on purpose. Still shit. Two Beads at the End - Not Adding to my Playlist. With a different singer these songs would be much better. Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want The Truth? - Not Adding to my Playlist. Mike I don’t know your full name but you have to do better than this. Don’t Look Now - Not Adding to my Playlist. I never listened to the original but it can’t be worse than this. Shit From an Old Notebook - Not Adding to my Playlist. There has to be a better singer they could hire. Nature Without Man - Not Adding to my Playlist. If this album was nothing but instrumentals it would be a lot better. One Reporter’s Opinion - Not Adding to my Playlist. Please, Mike please. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing - Not Adding to my Playlist. I hate you Mike. Maybe Partying Will Help - Not Adding to my Playlist. I was hoping this album was like Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. It’s just shit the whole way through. Toadies - Not Adding to my Playlist. Get a ghostwriter. Please. Actually, stop singing. The songs would be fine as instrumentals. Retreat - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is a song. The Big Foist - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is very disappointing. Maybe I’m too big of a normie to appreciate this masterpiece. God Bows to Math - Not Adding to my Playlist. Who sings these songs? And why were they picked as the singer? Corona - Not Adding to my Playlist. Is this album better drunk? Do I need to be an alcoholic to appreciate the album? The Glory of Man - Not Adding to my Playlist. I hope they don’t butcher Dr. Wu because that’s a song I really like. Take 5, D - Not Adding to my Playlist. This is by far the worst album I’ve ever listened to. I hope 69 Love Songs is better than this. My Heart and the Real World - Not Adding to my Playlist. When is the next instrumental? History Lesson - Part II - Not Adding to my Playlist. Punk rock is ruining my life. George you have to do better than Mike. You Need the Glory - Not Adding to my Playlist. Imagine buying this album in 1984 and realizing you wasted your money. The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts - Not Adding to my Playlist. Now that I think about it I listened to Basket Case and liked it. Mr Robot’s Holy Orders - Not Adding to my Playlist. I got excited then I heard words. Now I’m depressed. West Germany - Not Adding to my Playlist. When the only punk song I had listened to was Basket Case I liked punk. Now I hate it. I really hate it. The Politics of Time - Not Adding to my Playlist. Underflow error. Greatest album of all time. Themselves - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t even know what to say anymore. Please Don’t Be Gentle With Me - Not Adding to my Playlist. It’s very short and has little lyrics. One of the best songs on the album. Nothing Indeed - Not Adding to my Playlist. This album is way too long for and not nearly good enough. No Exchange - Not Adding to my Playlist. Going into this I was worried I would listen to every album and have no 1-star albums. I’m not worried anymore. There Ain’t Shit on T.V. Tonight - Not Adding to my Playlist. How did people buy albums without listening to them first when shit like this exists. This Ain’t No Picnic - Not Adding to my Playlist. I can’t believe people paid to listen to this. Spillage - Not Adding to my Playlist. Chaff, you have a fun name, please have better music. Untitled Song for Latin America - Not Adding to my Playlist. Do you think I’ll ever date a hot punk girl and then I’ll have to pretend to like this album? Jesus and Tequila - Not Adding to my Playlist. I would have to really like that girl to pretend to like this album. June 16th - Not Adding to my Playlist. I don’t think I’m a good enough actor to pretend to like this album. This is so boring but it’s the second best song. Storm in My House - Not Adding to my Playlist. Chaff, you have terrible music taste. What are these songs? Martin’s Story - Not Adding to my Playlist. I’m tired of this shit. Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love - Not Adding to my Playlist. No way people like this. Dr. Wu - Not Adding to my Playlist. They butchered the song. What the fuck? Little Man with a Gun in His Hand - Not Adding to my Playlist. Wow, this sucks. The World According to Nouns - Not Adding to my Playlist. This has to be a joke being played on me. Love Dance - Not Adding to my Playlist. Ending the album the right way. No vocals. A perfect end to a terrible album. All in all I liked 0/45 of the songs. 80 minutes, 45 tracks, loved by hundreds, complete shit. I listened to this for 80 minutes and I don’t like any of the 45 songs. 45 songs. Forty. Five. Songs.

i did not expect to hate this so much

Ugh. It reminds me of Black Flag's annoying jazzy aspirations

Not my cup of tea

43 songs may not even be the biggest problem with this album. The biggest problem with this album is that none of the songs add anything to the history of rock, so they are forgettable and insignificant. I'll give it 1 star for the production, which is the only thing that saves this huge disaster.

1/5

No thanks

The Seinfeld Theme’s angry phase.

p526. 1984. 1 star. Double album of mediocre demos from an average garage band with no tunes. WTF is this doing on the list?

Didn't do anything for me I'm afraid.

Not my jam

sounds like a demo tape for a garage band.

Jackass!!!!

Sometimes this list makes you feel musically inadequate. Yet another album where i neither know the band or this record. Having said that in this case I’ve missed nothing as it’s completely way out of my zone of likeable music. Advertised as a punk band straying into other genres. Even when I liked punk I would have struggled to like this lot. Best thing about the album is the gag that The Minutemen keep their songs to around the minute mark but would have been better to reduce the track count from 44 to 1 which is the star I give it. 1/5 12/6/24

Boomer here. Can’t relate.

Nope! This one hurt my ears.

Might be rated as a great album by the experts, but is crap to me 1/5

Talentless sons of bitches, I swear. 1/5

Shite

Who puts 45 songs on one record? I gave up after the first ten

This is made for a specific type of person. That person is not me.

Album Nr. 55 Der Stil sagt mir überhaupt nicht zu.

Jackass song is good...

Just terrible. Don't understand how people listen to stuff like this.

No comment

Sadly, but this is so far the worst I've listened to.

Too much drum pounding. Hard to listen to!

Vocals are not deep like other classic punk

Did not like at all. Didn't even finish one song.

Corona = Jackass

Seemed like a high school battle of the bands. Singing is horrible. Bass and drums best part. Seemed like they went into the studio & messed around for a while and after 40 short songs gets very cumbersome. Also production seems very low quality, I get it, punk music, but come on it’s on the greatest albums of all time list? First album on the list I really found completely uninteresting & found no connection with it at all…but again I can respect some people can rock out to it, I guess.

Garage band that's not very good that probably has a cult following that is very annoying.

not for me. not a fan of punk

Det här tilltalade mig inte alls

Feels like i’m listening to a a boy i’m hoping to have sex withs really bad garage band. Not a fan.

I made it just past the song with a surprise tik tok sound in it and threw in the towel. I already hate spoken word so the combo of that with 70 more minutes of jazz punk stuff was just too much.

Trash, Jackass, Trash

Terrible. Zero stars. too many songs, all sound the same, weird speaking, nothing flows together, random thoughts.

End up being a waste of pretty much everybody's time

Excuse me, this album has 43 songs?? Oh no, I don’t think I’m going to like this album 38 seconds into D.’s Car Jam / Anxious Mo-Fo. Update: I didn’t get through the first three songs, I’m so sorry.

What was the point of this record? For something that's over 40 songs and over an hour long, you'd think it would have something more to it. But it didn't! Most tracks were barely 2 minutes long, and they all seemed to indistinguishably blend into one another. Minutemen apparently touched on some important subjects in this album, but the music didn't interest me enough to pay attention. Thanks for the one hour and fifteen minutes of background noise, I guess.

Are they pretentiously obnoxious or obnoxiously pretentious? Don’t suppose it really matters - isn’t that punk of me? It’s too bad, really, because some of the playing on this album, esp. the jazz-inspired riffs, could make for a great instrumental album. But then they open their atonal douchey mouths and let the bull-sh*t roar. “I can make a minute last an hour.” Yes, you can, my dude. And that’s nothing to be proud of.

Nope, not for me

I guess the benefit of a 43 track album with 90 second songs is that the tracks you don't enjoy are over quickly. Unfortunately I enjoyed barely any of them. 1.5/5

ikke min kopp te. masete og rotete. finner ingenting jeg verdsetter

Did noy dig it

The Never Ending Album. 2/10

sounds like an old Modest Mouse

This album feels more like a collection of song ideas than actual songs, there is just a missing element everywhere which I atribute to the fact that songs rarely go past 2 minutes. The style itself just doesn't suit me either, with songs like Toadies and Take 5, D. making me question why they are on an album to begin with. This might have been an interesting experiment in 1984 but it has aged like milk from exactly that period for me.

weird. kinda punk, sometimes funky, or jam band-y. lots of super short songs. Not my thing.

💩

Punk-y album, not great. Interesting Spanish guitar after a few songs? Think this guy was doing a loooot of drugs. This album is all over the place. The longer I listen to it, the more it feels like torture. Corona is a cool song, recognised it from Jackass:)

Une honte.

Bin it, man 👎🏾

Really?!

Not for me. Talented musicians. Just not talented enough to shut the fuck up

rubbish absolute tosh

not my sound, but its ok.

Just was noise

Not for me

Oof. Not for me

Was a'ight