sharko wrote:I just don't get what all the fuss is about.
They ain't no Steely Dan.

Thank god for that. No one in the Minutemen buggered small boys.

Dumbass poll. Really.

Great band and much more favoured over most hardcore. Double Nickels on the Dime is a timeless album, and so is this band.

Ace wrote:When I first heard them, after hearing their reputation, i was bitterly, bitterly disappointed. After over 8 years of wondering what the fuss was about i woke up one morning and listened to 'Joe McCarthy's Ghost' over 100 times in one day.

Man, I love the Minutemen throughout their entire career, but I'm not sure they ever topped that Paranoid Time EP. "Joe McCarthy," "Paranoid Chant," "Dictionary"--it's just too fucking much.

There is a new punk rock band in Louisville called Rude Weirdo that, at their best, remind me of a cross between the Voidoids and very early Minutemen. You can find 'em on Myspace.

Love 'em.

One of the few quintessential American bands.

not crap, but it's hardcore...

The first "punk" show I ever saw. I had not heard them before that night. D Boon was such a huge presence, intense and sweating, howling into the mike...I had never seen anything like it before or since. They played for what seemed like forever. They weren't up on stage...they were at our level. I don't remember who opened but it might have been Negative Approach. To forget seeing Negative Approach that night really says something about The Minutemen. I think it was at the Freezer in Detroit.

I only got to see them that one time but it's etched in my memory unlike any other band I've ever seen.

I like The Punch Line best I think.

Piasek wrote:not crap, but it's hardcore...

A confusing statement...I've never thought of them as 'hardcore'. Hmmm.

Anyway, this is a band I can always listen to - I never seem to tire of them. Supremely not crap!