MINUTEMEN: Double Nickels On The Dimes LP

There is no record quite like Double Nickels on the Dime, and there never will be, because nobody has ever worked quite like the Minutemen did. Forty-three tracks across two LPs, recorded in 1984, and it still sounds like nothing else in the punk or post-punk canon.

D. Boon, Mike Watt, and George Hurley made music that was politically ferocious, rhythmically bizarre, and deeply working-class Californian. They called it "econo." No fat, no filler, no posturing, just ideas delivered at pace. SST Records underground royalty. The bass lines alone justify the price of entry. If you're serious about punk as a genre with actual history and actual teeth, this is load-bearing infrastructure. Watt still plays D. Boon's parts live decades later. That's not nostalgia, that's devotion.

Format: 2xLP (Double LP). Artist origin: USA. Genre: Post-punk, punk, alternative rock, hardcore. Original release: 1984. Available through ALT CVLT.

Fans of: Husker Du, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, fIREHOSE, Fugazi, Wire.