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The Minutemen were a punk rock trio which formed in 1980 in San Pedro, California, United States. The band comprised guitarist/vocalist D Boon and his childhood friend, bassist/vocalist Mike Watt, along with a former high school classmate on drums, George Hurley.
The group played funk influenced punk rock music in the early 1980s never finding (or even seeking) much mainstream success, but influencing many subsequent musicians. The group ended when Boon died in an automobile accident in Arizona in December 1985.
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They were influenced heavily by bands such as Wire, Gang of Four, The Pop Group, The Urinals and also funk bands of the late ’60s and ’70s were an important influence. nearly all of their early songs had unusual structures and were less than a minute long — even later when the Minutemen’s music became slightly more conventional, their songs rarely passed the three-minute mark.
Boon and Watt split songwriting fairly evenly (and Hurley made many contributions as well), though Watt rarely sang, and Hurley even less so. Boon’s songs were typically more direct and progressively political in nature, while Watt’s were often abstract, self-referential “spiels”. Lyrics and themes would thus often ve...
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Top 10 Minutemen Songs
Corona
Viet Nam
Cohesion
Theatre Is the Life of You
#1 Hit Song
It's Expected I'm Gone
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
Two Beads at the End
Maybe Partying Will Help
Shit From an Old Notebook
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Top 10 Minutemen Albums
Double Nickels on the Dime
What Makes a Man Start Fires?
The Punch Line
The Politics of Time
Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
Post-Mersh, Vol. 3
Paranoid Time
3-Way Tie (For Last)
Ballot Result
Introducing The Minutemen
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