obviously not crap.

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. They are great on a level that i haven't seen defined by anyone.

And, as for the DVD, George Hurley is the COOLEST.

I think their albums sound like ass.
They have always been a band I liked more in the respect department than I did in the I love their records department.
I've always felt their records did not portray them well.
That documentary is beyond amazing.
Their live sound is phenomenal.
I just wish they could have captured that on record.

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:I think their albums sound like ass.

You are wrong. So wrong.

I don't get why some people on this forum criticize recordings that cost less to record than the amount of money some people spend on guitar effects pedals every month. And these albums sound great- for what they are, on the equipment they used, in the era they were recorded. Sure, the recordings aren't Fleetwood Mac, early ZZ Top or Steely Dan, but they don't sound like ass. And Double Nickels, I might add, sounds very very good. It's easily the most clear sounding, audio verite album SST ever released.

And anyone who thinks D. Boon's guitar sound is crappy can eat my dick with a shit filled Pop-tart. It was a political decision for the Minutemen to separate the guitar and bass frequencies from each other. It works. Isn't there much more from 1984 that sounds that tons more asstastic? Black Flag? Husker Du? Rites of Spring? Seriously...

Minutemen, you rock like no others I have heard.

D. Boon, I wanna rap with you sometime on Philosophical Spiels even if you are dead. Keep chicken scratchin' in the Great Barbecue in the Sky.

Mike Watt, keep bassing along your merry way. Can I call you Slappy?

George Hurley, please appear on a recording soon. You smoke most drummers like salmon.

Minutemen are not crap. No they are not.

NOT CRAP!!

Saw the minutemen open for REM in Nov. 85. REM was just so weak that night in comparison. It was at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. The minutemen were on this huge stage (compared to the club postage stamp-sized affairs they had to contend with, I'm certain). They really worked that big stage. It was such a supercharged show. I think it was around that time that they recorded some live tracks at Georgia Tech's student station (WREK) that ended up on record. I owned two copies of Double Nickels at one time or another.

mr.arrison wrote:

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:I think their albums sound like ass.

You are wrong. So wrong.

I don't get why some people on this forum criticize recordings that cost less to record than the amount of money some people spend on guitar effects pedals every month. And these albums sound great- for what they are, on the equipment they used, in the era they were recorded. Sure, the recordings aren't Fleetwood Mac, early ZZ Top or Steely Dan, but they don't sound like ass. And Double Nickels, I might add, sounds very very good. It's easily the most clear sounding, audio verite album SST ever released.

I think Buzz or Howl... is one of the greatest sounding albums from the 80s. Half was $50, the other half was free. But the instruments sound so fucking sweet on that one. It seems really close to what they would sound like live.

garble wrote:

mr.arrison wrote:

Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:I think their albums sound like ass.

You are wrong. So wrong.

I don't get why some people on this forum criticize recordings that cost less to record than the amount of money some people spend on guitar effects pedals every month. And these albums sound great- for what they are, on the equipment they used, in the era they were recorded. Sure, the recordings aren't Fleetwood Mac, early ZZ Top or Steely Dan, but they don't sound like ass. And Double Nickels, I might add, sounds very very good. It's easily the most clear sounding, audio verite album SST ever released.

I think Buzz or Howl... is one of the greatest sounding albums from the 80s. Half was $50, the other half was free. But the instruments sound so fucking sweet on that one. It seems really close to what they would sound like live.

I read somewhere one time about just how important Spot was to bands on SST. He recorded them fairly cheaply, and kind of took a backseat to the band in the studio. I've heard conflicting accounts though.

I think his production jobs are for the most part, pretty shit.

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