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.
― dad a, Friday, 21 November 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― dad a, Friday, 21 November 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― ablaeser, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― dad a, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
history lesson, part 2 for me. the "me and mike watt playing guitar..." line is just too much.
― 69, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"List monitors arrive with petition!"
― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
voted "themselves", we covered it more than a few times and i learned to love it.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
otfm
― Fer Ark, Friday, 21 November 2008 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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>>>>
― Fer Ark, Friday, 21 November 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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otfm indeed
― my inbox so hot (will), Friday, 21 November 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
....we'd go drink and pogo...
― Fer Ark, Friday, 21 November 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Any young sprightly fuckers remember The Tube playing 'This Ain't No Picnic' vid?
― Fer Ark, Friday, 21 November 2008 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― chad, Saturday, 22 November 2008 03:10 (fifteen years ago) link
hardest poll ever, but "themselves" for now
― Zeno, Saturday, 22 November 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 22 November 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Now I wish I voted for West Germany, arguably the best riff on the entire record.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 22 November 2008 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Runners up (in no particular order):
The Glory of ManHistory Lesson - Part IICoronaAnxious Mo-FoSpillageMaybe Partying Will HelpThis Ain't No PicnicNothing IndeedMr. Robot's Holy OrdersCohesionThemselvesLittle Man with a Gun in His HandMy Heart and the Real WorldWest GermanyIt's Expected I'm GoneOne Reporter's Opinion
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 22 November 2008 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Picnic
― Bill Magill, Saturday, 22 November 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"toadies"
― abanana, Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― a new Rock Hardy screen name because I can't find the old one (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"number sevenon the chump listplaying stooge eating shit"
would be good if the seventh band mike watt had played with was iggys lot
― zappi, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"History Lesson Pt. II" towers, but "One Reporter's Opinion" and "Please Don't Be Gentle With Me" are back-up picks.
― Hubie Brown, Saturday, 22 November 2008 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
If we heard mortar shellswe'd cuss more in our songsand cut down on the guitar solos.....
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 23 November 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
LET THE PRODUCTS SELL THEMSELVESFUCK ADVERTISINGCOMMERCIAL PSYCHOLOGYPSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS TO SELLSHOULD BE DESTROYED
I logged in from Peru just to vote for this.
Take that, Huskers!
― sleeve, Monday, 24 November 2008 01:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The time monitor, the space measurer
― ablaeser, Monday, 24 November 2008 06:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Just voted for Viet Nam, though I was tempted by West Germany and Love Dance.
― ablaeser, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's say I got a number
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 27 November 2008 07:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 28 November 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 29 November 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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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― everything, Saturday, 29 November 2008 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow. No love for "Corona".
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 29 November 2008 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ha i voted for both the 2nd and 3rd place finishers
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 29 November 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I must have hit the wrong button, I think I accidentally voted for "New Wave". ah well.
ps poor "Cohesion", such a pretty instrumental
― sleeve, Saturday, 29 November 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― MacDara, Saturday, 29 November 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I hemmed and hawed about it for a week but never did vote.
― dumb pseud (some dude), Saturday, 29 November 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
jackass and 2xnickles both unbelievably great imo
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 29 November 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― WmC, Saturday, 29 November 2008 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Read the 33.3 book too. Had no idea that was Watt doing both voice parts on "Dr. Wu".
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 2 February 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, really?! That sounds just like Boon doing the sung part.
― WmC, Monday, 2 February 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
wATT claims it's both him.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 2 February 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Right now man!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 7 November 2013 23:28 (ten years ago) link
Big fucking shit
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 8 November 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
His sex is disease!
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 8 November 2013 01:30 (ten years ago) link
pull toyyyyyyyyy
― Linda Darmstadt (Jon Lewis), Friday, 8 November 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
I love how the CCR cover sounds like they're channeling ZZ Top.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 8 November 2013 06:28 (ten years ago) link
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.....
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 8 November 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
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/
― yugi ex, Thursday, 8 May 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
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
― j., Sunday, 14 September 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
Off the top of my head "Viet Nam" has several monochromatic riffs, but I need to listen to the entire album again.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 14 September 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
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
― cortez the sissy (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 00:23 (eight years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 02:33 (eight years ago) link
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.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
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?
― i live sweat but i dream light-years (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 04:36 (eight years ago) link
this album is really doing it for me right now
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 11 November 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
An abundance of awesomeness!
― fappy, blurred (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 12 November 2016 09:05 (seven years ago) link
I see pitchfork has a new review of this. Has it been remastered yet?
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 14 November 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
i think it's just, like, a revisitation
― j., Monday, 14 November 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
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.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link