Double Nickels on the POLL

shit, was hoping this was a nickelback poll

"Shit From An Old Notebook" has lots of lessons we can learn.

i just started reading the 33 1/3 on this album....haven't listened to it in a bit, though, really tough call.

This is the greatest album of all time, so this poll is impossible.

But for today, it's "One Reporter's Opinion."

My Heart and the Real World. But there isn't a bad song here.

I must look like a dork

George's Car Jam

I wouldn't say there's not a bad song here...but it doesn't really matter since there's at least 30 good ones.

Make mine a Jesus and Tequila.

"And if I were a word would my letters number a thousand/More likely coarse and gutteral one-syllable Anglo-Saxon."

I've said it before: most quotable record ever.

Trying to resist urge to vote "Dr Wu". Might go with "Maybe Partying" or "Please Don't Be Gentle" instead.

We did this before didn't we? Maybe on the temp-ilx. I think Little Man won and Maybe Partying Will Help (my vote) did surprisingly well.

Aren't the songs out of order on this list? Strange not seeing History Lesson smack in the middle. And where are the cover songs?

I used the original track list provided by Wikipedia but I wasn't sure which sides were where since I never had the vinyl. What covers are missing?

Oops, you have all the covers, I'm just blind today. I think you have sides two and three flipped here, but all songs appear to be present and accounted for.

history lesson, part 2 for me. the "me and mike watt playing guitar..." line is just too much.

"List monitors arrive with petition!"

voted "themselves", we covered it more than a few times and i learned to love it.

history lesson, part 2 for me. the "me and mike watt playing guitar..." line is just too much.

otfm

But, having said that (boring xpost) I am having rediscovering this trucker. Ripped it to my mp player a fortnight ago- the first time I've listened to it for what, 15 years. Still sounds so good. The whole lot. Right from the revving engines in>>>>

history lesson, part 2 for me. the "me and mike watt playing guitar..." line is just too much.

otfm

― Fer Ark, Friday, November 21, 2008 4:05 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otfm indeed

....we'd go drink and pogo...

Any young sprightly fuckers remember The Tube playing 'This Ain't No Picnic' vid?

yes indeed this is very difficult. Possibly my favourite double LP of all time.
my pick: "two beads at the end"

@ FerArk... that rules. what a record to re-discover.

hardest poll ever, but "themselves" for now

This year it's "Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth," mostly for the music, which is just haunting. I'm a substitute teacher and I play it in my mind to calm me down before a new class at a new school. I do the same with Sam Cooke's "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen."

Granted, "New Wave" isn't exactly a song I could actually play for the students, as I've done with "Nobody Knows."

Now I wish I voted for West Germany, arguably the best riff on the entire record.

Runners up (in no particular order):

The Glory of Man
History Lesson - Part II
Corona
Anxious Mo-Fo
Spillage
Maybe Partying Will Help
This Ain't No Picnic
Nothing Indeed
Mr. Robot's Holy Orders
Cohesion
Themselves
Little Man with a Gun in His Hand
My Heart and the Real World
West Germany
It's Expected I'm Gone
One Reporter's Opinion

Picnic

"toadies"

Now I wish I voted for West Germany, arguably the best riff on the entire record.

I almost voted for this.

If I tried ranking all the songs on this album, it would take three hours and then my head would blow up.

"number seven
on the chump list
playing stooge
eating shit"

would be good if the seventh band mike watt had played with was iggys lot

"History Lesson Pt. II" towers, but "One Reporter's Opinion" and "Please Don't Be Gentle With Me" are back-up picks.

If we heard mortar shells
we'd cuss more in our songs
and cut down on the guitar solos.....

LET THE PRODUCTS SELL THEMSELVES
FUCK ADVERTISING
COMMERCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS TO SELL
SHOULD BE DESTROYED

I logged in from Peru just to vote for this.

Take that, Huskers!

The time monitor, the space measurer

Just voted for Viet Nam, though I was tempted by West Germany and Love Dance.

Let's say I got a number

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

LET THE PRODUCTS SELL THEMSELVES
FUCK ADVERTISING
COMMERCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS TO SELL
SHOULD BE DESTROYED

I logged in from Peru just to vote for this.
Take that, Huskers!

― sleeve, Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:31 PM (5 days ago)

Shit From an Old Notebook 0

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Wow. No love for "Corona".

ha i voted for both the 2nd and 3rd place finishers

I must have hit the wrong button, I think I accidentally voted for "New Wave". ah well.

ps poor "Cohesion", such a pretty instrumental

Corona was/is probably tainted by the Jackass connection, which is unfair (especially since it probably made a bit of money for D's dad, like that Volvo commercial years ago) but them's the breaks.

I hemmed and hawed about it for a week but never did vote.

jackass and 2xnickles both unbelievably great imo

ps poor "Cohesion", such a pretty instrumental

I like this well enough, and loved it the first few years I had the album in a "wow, a talking dog and/or a horse that does math" kind of way, but then I realized the album has at least 40 better demos of why D. Boon was one of the greatest guitarists of the 80s.

Read the 33.3 book too. Had no idea that was Watt doing both voice parts on "Dr. Wu".

wait, really?! That sounds just like Boon doing the sung part.

wATT claims it's both him.

Right now man!

Big fucking shit

His sex is disease!

pull toyyyyyyyyy

I love how the CCR cover sounds like they're channeling ZZ Top.

Sorry I missed this poll, and can't believe all the songs with 0 votes: No one voted for Nature Without Man? Corona? My pick would be Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing. I must look like a dork.....

Where to start...well, five years ago it would have been It's Expected I'm Gone, but nowadays I probably like the end of the album even better than the start and would have to go with Untitled Song For Latin America...but there are so many other contenders.

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/05/08/minutemen-double-nickels-on-the-dime-round-66-toms-selection/

can any practicing musicians comment on what the chord progressions/structures to the songs are like?

i haven't listened to this in years, and i'm struck by how monochromatic it seems

Off the top of my head "Viet Nam" has several monochromatic riffs, but I need to listen to the entire album again.

I just heard this for the first time finally a couple days ago. Its pretty awesome! I probably would go Glory of Man or New Wave

It's really hard to take most of these tunes as a singular item. The thing about this album is that it just pummels you with grooves and ideas one after another. While some of the songs might hold up outside the LP, I think they lose some pop when not in the one after another format.

You could just about say that the best song on this album doesn't really do well fitting in on this album at all.

("Little Man...", a song that Watt says was an inferior version of a first version.)

Yeah definitely it's the ones with sonically distinctive qualities that tend to stand out to me rn...

Its weird: in a lot of ways this album is prob one of the pinnacles of sk8r & hardcore culture, but there does seem to be a bit of incongruity that the two major instances that this album has intersected with the mainstream have been Jackass and the History Lesson sample at the beginnibg of Sublime's 40 oz to Freedom album...do they talk about this,at all in the 33 1/3?

this album is really doing it for me right now

An abundance of awesomeness!

I see pitchfork has a new review of this. Has it been remastered yet?

i think it's just, like, a revisitation

I am back with this record after a long time away. Oh man it has not diminished in power at all. Right now my favorite is The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts, a title that feels like it came from Nostradamus for this strange moment in time.

changes every day, but I've been feeling Toadies lately.

"This Ain't No Picnic" was my iPhone alarm sound for a few years, perfect way to start the day.

Happy 40th:

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/anniversary/the-minutemen-double-nickels-on-the-dime-review/

That was fantastic, thanks for posting. 40 years old and feels like it could have come out yesterday.

Truly so!

To break it down, “double nickels” is trucker slang for 55mph. In 1984 hard rocker Sammy Hagar released the execrable petrolhead anthem ‘I Can’t Drive 55’. In response, the Minutemen were, Watt said, “gonna drive safe and make crazy music, while that clown was gonna drive crazy and make safe music.” The album cover depicts Watt driving his VW Beetle at exactly 55mph down Interstate 10 (aka “The Dime” in trucker slang), with a sign for San Pedro coming up ahead.

Now this I did not know

Many people were pissed at the highway speed limit being changed to 55 MPH. The Cannonball Run (1981) begins with a 55MPH sign being defaced

Why was “little man” removed from the tracklists on the reissues? It’s also missing on streaming.

3 tracks were removed from the CD version due to time constraints iirc

it's on my vinyl reissue from about 15 years ago

I think it got cut just because it had also been released on the Buzz or Howl EP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26-4oARwfF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3vi0Y7OnO4

("Cohesion" - turns up on Shane Parish's 2024 album Repertoire alongside arrangements of Coleman/Mingus/Cage/Beefheart/Kraftwerk etc)

Not many wrong choices here but I have to say "It's Expected I'm Gone" floats into my brain apropos of nothing often. George is so great on it.

I've said it before: most quotable record ever.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, November 21, 2008

otm

and yeah I voted wrong, chalk one up for "Shit From An Old Notebook" and one less for "Do You Want New Wave..."

16 years, wow