Minutemen foi uma banda formada em San Pedro, Califórnia, em 1980. Composta por D. Boon (vocal/guitarra), Mike Watt (baixo) e George Hurley (bateria), o grupo era conhecido na comunidade punk californiana devido à filosofia "jamming econo", um senso de calmaria refletido em suas turnês e apresentações, enquanto suas atitudes ecléticas e experimentais influenciaram bastante no desenvolvimento do rock. Seu estilo único de misturar elementos de jazz e funk ao punk rock os tornou uma das grandes bandas do cenário independente dos anos 80 ao lado de bandas como
Black Flag,
Bad Brains,
Minor Threat e
Hüsker Dü. A banda acabou em 1985 após a trágica morte de D. Boon em um acidente de carro.
Paranoid Time EP (1980)
1 - Validation
2 - The Maze
3 - Definitions
4 - Sickles And Hammers
5 - Fascist
6 - Joe McCarthy's Ghost
7 - Paranoid Chant
Joy EP (1981)
1 - Joy
2 - Black Sheep
3 - More Joy
The Punch Line (1981)
1 - Search
2 - Tension
3 - Games
4 - Boiling
5 - Disguises
6 - The Struggle
7 - Monuments
8 - Ruins
9 - Issued
10 - The Punch Line
11 - Song For El Salvador
12 - History Lesson
13 - Fanatics
14 - No Parade
15 - Straight Jacket
16 - Gravity
17 - Warfare
18 - Static
What Makes A Man Start Fires? (1983)
1 - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
2 - One Chapter in the Book
3 - Fake Contest
4 - Beacon Sighted Through Fog
5 - Mutiny in Jonestown
6 - East Wind/Faith
7 - Pure Joy
8 - 99
9 - The Anchor
10 - Sell or Be Sold
11 - The Only Minority
12 - Split Red
13 - Colors
14 - Plight
15 - The Tin Roof
16 - Life as a Rehearsal
17 - This Road
18 - Polarity
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Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat EP (1983)
1 - Self-Referenced
2 - Cut
3 - Dream Told by Moto
4 - Dreams Are Free, Motherfucker!
5 - The Toe Jam
6 - I Felt Like a Gringo
7 - The Product
8 - Little Man with a Gun in His Hand
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The Politics Of Time (1984)
1 - Base King Boo
2 - Working Men Are Pissed
3 - I Shook Hands
4 - Below The Belt Hurley
5 - Shit You Hear At Parties
6 - The Big Lounge Scene
7 - Maternal Rite
8 - Tune For Wind God
9 - Party With Me Punker
10 - The Process
11 - Joy Jam
12 - Tony Gets Wasted In Pedro
13 - Swing To The Right
14 - ¡Raza Si!
15 - Times
16 - Badges
17 - Fodder
18 - Futurism Restated
19 - Hollering
20 - Suburban Dialectic
21 - Contained
22 - On Trial
23 - Spraycan Wars
24 - My Part
25 - Fanatics
26 - Ack Ack Ack
27 - The Big Blast For Youth Cheap Offers
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Double Nickels On The Dime (1984)
1 - D.'s Car Jam / Anxious Mo-Fo
2 - Theatre Is The Life Of You
3 - Viet Nam
4 - Cohesion
5 - It's Expected I'm Gone
6 - #1 Hit Song
7 - Two Beads At The End
8 - Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth
9 - Don't Look Now
10 - Shit From An Old Notebook
11 - Nature Without Man
12 - One Reporters Opinion
13 - Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
14 - Maybe Partying Will Help
15 - Toadies
16 - Retreat
17 - The Big Foist
18 - God Bows To Math
19 - Corona
20 - The Glory Of Man
21 - Take 5, D.
22 - My Heart And The Real World
23 - History Lesson Part 2
24 - You Need The Glory
25 - The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts
26 - West Germany
27 - The Politics Of Time
28 - Themselves
29 - Please Don't Be Gentle With Me
30 - Nothing Indeed
31 - No Exchange
32 - There Ain't Shit On TV Tonight
33 - This Ain't No Picnic
34 - Spillage
35 - Untitled Song For Latin America
36 - Jesus And Tequila
37 - June 16th
38 - Storm In My House
39 - Martin's Story
40 - Doctor Wu
41 - The World According To Nouns
42 - Love Dance
43 - Three Car Jam
Project: Mersh EP (1985)
1 - The Cheerleaders
2 - King of The Hill
3 - Hey Lawdy Mama
4 - Take Our Test
5 - Tour Spiel
6 - More Spiel
3-Way Tie (For Last) (1985)
1 - Price Of Paradise
2 - Lost (Meat Puppets cover)
3 - The Big Stick
4 - Political Nightmare
5 - Courage
6 - Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)
7 - The Red And The Black (Blue Öyster Cult cover)
8 - Spoken Word Piece
9 - No One
10 - Stories
11 - What Is It?
12 - Ack Ack Ack (The Urinals cover)
13 - Just Another Soldier
14 - Situations At Hand
15 - Hittin' The Bong
16 - Bermuda (Roky Erickson cover)
Ballot Result (1987)
1 - Little Man With A Gun In His Hand
2 - Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
3 - I Felt Like A Gringo
4 - Jesus And Tequila
5 - Courage
6 - King Of The Hill
7 - Bermuda
8 - No One
9 - Mr Robot's Holy Orders
10 - Ack Ack Ack
11 - History Lesson (Part 2)
12 - This Aint No Picnic
13 - The Cheerleaders
14 - Time
15 - Cut
16 - Split Red
17 - Shit You Hear At Parties
18 - Hell (Second Take)
19 - Tour-Spiel
20 - Take Our Test
21 - The Punch Line
22 - Search
23 - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
24 - Badges
25 - Tension
26 - If Reagan Played Disco
27 - No! No! No! To Draft & War/Joe McCarthy's Ghost