V/A - Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute To D Boon And The Minutemen

Label: Little Brother

Year: 1996

Let's start by me telling you this, and it might rub you the wrong way...but..."I don't think the Minutemen were all that great". They were "fine" I guess. And maybe I was too stupid to "get it", or whatever, but ultimately they did and/or do, very little for me. They have a handful of really good songs, and a bunch of alright songs, and fair amount of shitty songs. Not a bad record per se, just not essential to these ears.

A lot of people are way into the Minutemen, and think they were very "important" or something to that extent, and that's fine, I'm sure they are very important to some folks. No one here is saying they're no good, or that they didn't contribute to this or that, or that we can't collectively respect what they accomplished in their time on earth.

I just like fIREHOSE better, that's all.

So then why am I posting this long ass album of other bands playing Minutemen songs? Good question.

Honestly, it's not a bad question at all.

I'll have to think about it for a minute and get back to you.

There's too many bands to list, but the ones you have a better chance of ever having head of before are:

Seam

Hazel

Oswald Five-O

Treepeople

Tsunami

Strawmen

Meat Puppets

Crackrbash

Nels Cline Trio

Dos

Overwhelming Colorfast

Free Kitten

Jawbox

Thurston Moore

Joe Baiza

Unwound

The Meices

Corduroy

Lou Barlow

D Boon (hey, that's not fair!)

Minutemen (for real, that's not fair!)

DL