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  2. Bad Timing
    It's hard to believe this song is seven minutes long; just when it gets started it seems over already. With prominent use of guitar in both a distant but audible solo and delay, it builds from a quiet sound to a progressively heavy one - lots of influences in here from old to new.

    7 Days, 7 Weeks
    While it's pleasant enough to hear, there's just something with this track that didn't quite grab me. It does have a nice 'wah-wah' sound going on in the background coupled with what sounds like a minimalist synth sound - it's like a buzzing. Certainly quieter and laid-back than the intro track yet.

    Stop-Start Nature
    Track three. Interesting use of guitar effects (bah-bah-bah-ba-aah-ah) over a 'dirty' bass line. Like 'Bad Timing', this one builds from quiet to loud and then back to quiet - and what sounds like some kind of string arrangement. Towards the end of the track there's a small a capella bit which leads into a cool little drum-bass breakdown which I like *a lot*.

    If You Don't Get What You Want
    Again, a 'dirty' bass line compliments this one well and straight into heavy rock territory. Pure straight-up no-bullshit hard rock here.

    What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love)
    A mixture of dance sound and rock. Not much more than that....you could see this one being a big hit on dance floors. Listenable enough but out of the five tracks so far including this, I'm already itching to go back to 'Bad Timing'.

    Include Me Out
    Opens with a sample and stays pretty laid back with some more sampling in the background. Some electronic piano compliments cat sounds in the background. While not the highlight of the album, sometimes after some harder sound, downtempo is always welcome.

    Pocket Revolution
    Another deceptively quiet track. Then the vocal choir and string arrangements over spacey synths comes in and whoa. It blows me away. This has more than a passing resemblance to 'Eclipse' by Pink Floyd. Love love love it.

    Nightshopping
    Towards the end of the song is where it gets *good*.

    Cold Sun Of Circumstance
    Could have been something released back in the mid-90s. Just when you thought it was good, then you get that end section and it becomes something else entirely; the sampling fits well - just wish I could tell what the sample was.

    The Real Sugar
    One of the few down-tempo songs here. Slow yet almost jazzy and those subtle string arrangements....beautiful.

    Sun Ra
    What IS this. Very experimental. I don't know what to say about this - but I like it a lot. Just seems way too short.

    Nothing Really Ends
    I love sounds which make you wonder how they were made and this song features quite a few of them. Like those beautiful string arrangements in 'The Real Sugar', they're here again. Then there's piano to go with it; this is musical beauty in so many forms. I could see a bar from the 1940s playing something like this; it has that sound to go with it.




    Overall: one of the more diverse albums I've heard in a while incorporating all kinds of things to make a unique yet fascinating piece of work.

    Top three:

    Pocket Revolution
    Bad Timing
    Sun Ra
  3. Finally got some weekend time at home and now I can write something about this great album!

    I've been listening to it during the hole week, and there are some songs that were constantly been played in my mind.

    Best songs in my opinion:

    Bad Timing: Maybe the best song of the album. It is really a great opener, and you feel confortable about listening to it 3 or 4 times before you listen to the second song. Really amazing song.

    7 Days, 7 Weeks: It reminds me some Radiohead songs. I like the introspective atmosphere this song (and some others on the album) transmits to you.

    If You Don't Get What You Want: One word to describe this one: rock. NIce bassline and guitar here. Great song to listen while driving

    What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love): Far from being the best song of the album, but it really sticks in your mind.

    Include Me Out: One of my favorites here. It has such a melancholic but still beautiful atmosphere. It has a perfect sintony between all the instruments and samplers.

    Cold Sun Of Circumstance: Another rock song full of energy. Great drums and guitar.

    The Real Sugar: Another highlight of the album. Once again, they can make you feel really relaxed. Just like Include Me Out, everything is about the atmosphere here.

    Sun Ra: Can I hear a violin here? This song great! Really noisy, so you can skip it or hear it over and over again depending on you mood.

    Overall, I really enjoyed the hole album, andI honestly think there's no bad songs on it.

    8/10, and I'm going to search for more songs from these guys.
  4. ^
    Nice reviews by both of you guys. Good to see people still can appriciate good harder rock tune. At first it looked everybody likes just those slow songs lol.
  5. Little review

    I like it . I didn t know the band and their work .For me was a 7/10

    Top 3

    1- Nothing Really Ends

    2-Include Me Out

    3- What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love) / Bad Timing
  6. Apologies for being days late and dollars short on this post, but here is the album of the week for this week, chosen by user KieranU2!

    Double Nickels on the Dime by Minutemen



    1. 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 Reporter's 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 Man
    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 B
    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 Aint Shit on TV Tonight
    33. This Aint 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. Dr. Wu
    41. The World According to Nouns
    42. Love Dance
    43. Three Car Jam

    Don't be afraid of the number of tracks - most are around one minute or less. This is an interesting choice for Album of the Week, that's for sure - a unique pick that strays far from the norm. Enjoy, and be sure to post thoughts and reviews in real time as you're listening! This week will be fun.

    The album should be available to stream on Spotify.

    Since we are getting started later than usual, discussion will continue through the following Tuesday, overlapping with next week's album. Hopefully this shouldn't be too much of a problem.
  7. WTF
  8. I'm mildly familiar with Minutemen, though not this particular album, and I can assure you the songs are in true garage/punk fashion in terms of their length.

    The influences spread across the album are immensely diverse, on my first pass through. Clear influence from peers of the era like Talking Heads in terms of vocal styling (not to mention the occasional Nick Cave similarity), but a definite premonition of Red Hot Chili Peppers-style clean funk playing that Slovak (and later Frusciante) made popular in the later 80s. Underneath all of that, the rhythm section manages to keep a rockabilly vibe to the entire thing. It's a wildly complex album, style-wise.

    Mix that with punk-structured songs like The Ramones' and you've got a really interesting album.
  9. Oh, and some of you will be pretty familiar with one of the songs that lies about halfway through this album
  11. That was the exact reaction I was looking for! I'm not trying to fool you all into listening to something that is lengthy. As Matt mentioned, the songs are incredibly quick-fire and short. It's arguably one of the finest punk albums of all time and even makes its way onto Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums of All Time.

    Enjoy your listen, everybody. It's a wild, yet satisfying ride.
  12. A bit of punk? Hell yeah, I'm in. This will be great.
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