The Punch Line
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The Minutemen may have come out of the same California hardcore scene that produced Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Fear, but they not only bore little resemblance to their West Coast contemporaries, they didn't sound much like anyone else in American rock at that time. The Punch Line was the band's first album, packing 18 tunes into less than 25 minutes, and if the music shares hardcore's lust for speed and assaultive rhythmic punch, their sharp, fragmented melodies, complex tempos, and overtly poetic and political lyrics made clear they were rugged individuals; imagine James Blood Ulmer teaching Wire how to get funky and you start to get an idea of what The Punch Line sounds like.
Tracklist
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
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The Minutemen may have come out of the same California hardcore scene that produced Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Fear, but they not only bore little resemblance to their West Coast contemporaries, they didn't sound much like anyone else in American rock at that time. The Punch Line was the band's first album, packing 18 tunes into less than 25 minutes, and if the music shares hardcore's lust for speed and assaultive rhythmic punch, their sharp, fragmented melodies, complex tempos, and overtly poetic and political lyrics made clear they were rugged individuals; imagine James Blood Ulmer teaching Wire how to get funky and you start to get an idea of what The Punch Line sounds like.
Tracklist
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
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The Minutemen may have come out of the same California hardcore scene that produced Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Fear, but they not only bore little resemblance to their West Coast contemporaries, they didn't sound much like anyone else in American rock at that time. The Punch Line was the band's first album, packing 18 tunes into less than 25 minutes, and if the music shares hardcore's lust for speed and assaultive rhythmic punch, their sharp, fragmented melodies, complex tempos, and overtly poetic and political lyrics made clear they were rugged individuals; imagine James Blood Ulmer teaching Wire how to get funky and you start to get an idea of what The Punch Line sounds like.
Tracklist
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
