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Sources vary, but most seem to agree that on this day 40 years ago, Minutemen’s Double Nickels On the Dime was released. I could write a book about what this album has meant to me, the many portals it has opened. How so many the values and aesthetics I treasure in art can be traced back to my (1/?)

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(2/?) experience with this music. Not least its democratic core. Even though a good chunk of it was recorded almost off the cuff, as friendly “take that Hüskers” to Dü’s ambitious double album Zen Arcade, nothing seems makeshift or casual. Rather, it all coheres, somehow. The results of three dudes

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strive for pithiness. land on glib.'s avatar strive for pithiness. land on glib. @scruffymane.bsky.social
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personal taste varies but its amazing to me how fresh and vital this record sounds today.

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