This is the first album/day of the project, and it is actually one I have listened to recently. I bought this when it came out in 1990, and I have always struggled to get into it compared to other PSB albums. After another listen: Best Tracks: Being Boring, My October Symphony, So Hard, The End Of The World

I've never really been interested in Iggy Pop, but I am a David Bowie fan. I have never listened to this album before today, but after reading the writeup on the album and Bowie's involvement, I was intrigued. After listening through twice, I agree with another reviewer's comment that this can be considered the 4th Bowie Berlin era album. Sounds so much like Low and Heroes. I believe this one will go into regular rotation for me. Favorite Songs: Tiny Girls, Mass Production, Sister Midnight

Soul is one of those genres that I sing along to the hits on the radio, but rarely if ever listen to a complete album. As a result, I've never listened to this album before today, and I did enjoy it. Excellent vocals, but the songs sounded a bit too alike after a while. May come back to it now and then. Best songs: title song, Keep Getting It On, Distant Lover

As a teen in the early 80s, I pretty much listened to new wave and prog rock almost exclusively. Of course, if you liked new wave, then de facto you hated metal and standard hard rock, so Def Leppard was a band I avoided. Over the years I expanded my tastes to listen to and enjoy bands I would have never considered back then (metal bands like Metallica, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and AOR bands like Survivor and Loverboy), but I always resisted giving Def Leppard a chance. After listening to this album, I am wondering why I resisted. This was a good album overall - plenty of harmony vocals (which is always a plus for me), interesting melodies and guitar effects. I am now intrigued to explore the rest of their discography. I feel like the stubborn protagonist in Green Eggs and Ham - "I do like Def Leppard, Sam I Am!" One knock against the album - it runs a bit long with a few fillers. Best songs - Rocket, Love Bites, Women, Hysteria

Too dissonant for these 56 year old ears. Might have been able to get into it when I was 20 (the year it came out), but I doubt it.

This is one of those albums I've had on my "to listen" list for a long time, ever since I first heard Freddie's Dead as a cover by Fishbone back in 1988. Over the years since I have heard the original Freddie's Dead and Pusherman on the radio, but I just never got around to the whole Superfly soundtrack. The album was great, even down to the instrumentals. Recommend!

Had this one in heavy rotation back in the late eighties. Solid album!

2 punk bands stood above all the rest, both lyrically and muscially - Bad Religion and Dead Kennedys. While I prefer DK's second LP, Plastic Surgery Disasters, this one received quite a bit of play for me as a teen in the early 80s. I stupidly got rid of all my vinyl in the early 2000s. The vinyl version I had contained the song Police Truck, which is sorely missed on the version on Spotify - you have to go the compilation album to get it. I hadn't listened to this for several years, so it was nostalgia lane for me. Best songs - Callifornia Uber Alles, Let's Lynch The Landlord, Chemical Warfare, and the sadly missing Police Truck.

Can't stand it when vocalists sing like Cookie Monster. Music was a bit interesting, but the vocals kill it for me.

Completely boring

I had never heard about Minutemen prior to 1986, when I heard a song by Minutemen's successor band fIREHOSE on a local college station and went out and bought the album. I loved fIREHOSE - Mike Watt is an amazing bassist - one of the best in rock history. and found out that Watt and George Hurley were in Minutemen and that the lead singer had died in a car crash (how I found this out without the internet back then I have no idea - maybe it was the SST connection). I quickly ran out and purchased What Makes A Man Start Fires, which is the album before this one. I could never get into it. As a result, I never listened to Double Nickels On The Dime before today. I enjoyed it quite a bit - it was much more accessible than What Makes A Man Start Fires, and I could see the musical seeds of fIREHOSE being planted. I also never realized the Jackass theme was a Minutemen song. The album is a bunch of really short songs, so I think it is better listened to as a whole experience rather than selecting particular favorite songs.

Listening to this album was a weird experience - when fIREHOSE first hit the scene in 1986, I heard the song Brave Captain on one of the local college stations and liked it. The next week I saw their debut album Ragin' Full On in a used bin at the record store and, remembering that I liked the one song, picked it up on a whim. I wore that album out, loving every bit of it. Went to see them live, where it was so loud it nearly deafened me for life - easily the loudest show I've ever been to. When they came out with their second album If'n, I was disappointed. It was okay, but did not have the energy of the first album. I kind of stopped listening to them after that, so when I saw this one pop up in the music generator, I knew this was their last SST release before moving to a major label and thought - "this will be fun - I never listened to this one." Well, I put it on and quickly realized as I recognized the songs as they played that I actually had owned this album 30 years ago but had completely forgotten about it! I sold the CD many years ago. Listening again this many years later, I realized I liked it better than I had back then. I still think their debut Ragin' Full On would have been a better choice for the album generator, but I think I will end up returning to this one again.

Clapton is an A-hole but this album is great. 5 stars.

I love XTC, and I like Skylarking, but I really prefer their more energetic and quirky earlier stuff. This album in my opinion, is a solid album, but is overrated in the end. If you are someone who listened to Skylarking and found it to be too twee and gave this album a low rating, be advised that it is only representative of their later work. I encourage you to go back and listen to English Settlement, Drums and Wires, and my personal favorite album of theirs - Black Sea. Those three albums are almost perfect. If those aren't energetic enough for you, go back to their first two albums - White Music and Go 2, which are pretty frenetic.

Why is this an album I must hear?

Good songs. He should let somebody else sing though.

Strangely compelling noise

Cannot stand the singer's voice. I've liked an occasional Kings of Leon song, but I can't handle a full album without getting annoyed.

Fun but not essential

Pleasant enough album, but not essential listening. I would say with almost absolute certainty that it would not have made this list without the song "Street Life." One song, however, does not make an album one that "I must hear before I die."

i'm not sure why this Simon and Garfunkel album is on this list. several of their albums are better than this one.

Overall, pretty boring

Overrated and overplayed.

Stop already with the Bjork. This is like the fifth album from her that's popped up on this list. I can't handle her non melodic songs and annoying voice any longer. She's not that good.

These mediocre Brit albums are wearing me out.

i've loved this album since I first got it back in 1985 or so. Everybody seems to love the first specials album, but I thought this one had much more diversity and range and has held up better.