0160. Minutemen
Double Nickels On The Dime
The album's called Double Nickels On The Dime and if I hadn't listened to trucker country I'd missed part of the reference completely: driving exactly 55mph (as shown on the sleeve) [fact check: the title was chosen as a diss to Sammy Hagar's song I Can't Drive 55, which was written in defiance to national speed limits - not so hugely rebellious according to the Minutemen who preferred to make rebellious music (something Hagar didn't)].
They've obviously had free access to a studio, cause the sheer number of tracks (fourty-five) and the variety of quality (You Need Glory - seriously dudes?) combined with the range of styles (they're mixing funk, punk, hardcore, jazz, spoken word and what the Hell else pops up) makes for a double-album with seventy-three minutes of musical fruit salad: some strawberries and the occasional kiwi.
As I said - varying quality. The track that everybody's heard at least part of is Corona, which was used as the theme for the Jackass show, and deserves a better destiny than that.
Here and there I can also hear riffs heard on other tracks by later bands, so they've clearly "influenced" a couple of people who, in turn, might not have been so shy about picking the cherries out of the production (again with the fruits? what's wrong with me?).
Sadly I once again only got hold of the CD-version where most of the car jams and a couple of songs are gone from the mix, so I can't really give a definite answer if this is a must-hear album before you die or just an interesting piece of music.
