... Is in typewriter font on the side of the gate folds pinched: friendly subjects competed with 2 lead SST-punk bands that had just released a double album. Both HÜSKER dues "Zen Arcade" (only recently praised by Sascha from Berlin to the skies) and this 45-song belts are not long think about the best records that have ever published. SST has done a lot for the fact that the conceptual content of the vile word "Punk Rock" could be broadly interpreted. While HüDü with Bob Moulds Sawtooth direct-to-desk guitars, emotional Kamikaze and herzzerfetzenden melodies of the popular idea of American punk music could sure come in places close today, MINUTEMEN were rather the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a better world: A lot of pieces are so funky that eg Gang of Four sound compared as if they were on joint rheumatism and boxing gloves. D. Boon's guitar sound consists almost entirely of percussive ringing heights, making the polarized counterpart MIKE Watts always much-to-virtuoso for punk singing bass; to GEORGE Hurley furztrocken abgemischtes, never embarrassed by a clever syncope drumming. The agitational gesture of most of the songs stands in delightful contrast to the masterfully controlled ability to get to the point TO. No sound TOO MUCH TO PLAY. Verse, chorus, end, finish, next number. And nearly every song contains at least 2 riffs that it would be worth to be played again for a while. Others have made a quarter of the material gathered here a solid record, but the output of the Minutemen played just in a different league from. Such bands they no longer do today.
If this off-the-hip-eulogy a Minutemen-text, it would be titled something like this:
