MINUTEMEN What Makes A Man Start Fires? - Original US LP - Punk SST fIREHOSE

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MINUTEMEN

What Makes A Man Start Fires?

Original US LP released on SST Records in 1983. No barcode on sleeve.

SST-0140-A   L-11715   kdisc   BONES - THE LIST....THE LIST IN THE DREAM? (OF ECHOS)
SST-014-B   L-11715-X   kdisc   ...AND THE GUESTS CAME IN THROUGH LITTLE FUNNELS - DRIPPING

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The Minutemen had already come up with a sound as distinctive as anything to come out of the American punk underground -- lean, fractured, and urgent -- with their debut album, 1981's The Punch Line. But on their second (relatively) long-player, What Makes a Man Start Fires?, the three dudes from Pedro opted to slow down their tempos a bit, and something remarkable happened -- the Minutemen revealed that they were writing really great songs, with a remarkable degree of stylistic diversity.

If you were looking for three-chord blast, the Minutemen were still capable of delivering, as the opening cut proved (the hyper-anthemic "Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs"), but there was just as much churning, minimalistic funk as punk bile in their sound (bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley were already a strikingly powerful and imaginative rhythm section), and D. Boon's guitar solos were the work of a man who could say a lot musically in a very short space of time. Leaping with confidence and agility between loud rants ("Split Red"), troubled meditations ("Plight"), and plainspoken addresses on the state of the world ("Mutiny in Jonestown"), the Minutemen were showing a maturity of vision that far outstripped most of their contemporaries and a musical intelligence that blended a startling sophistication with a street kid's passion for fast-and-loud.

It says a lot about the Minutemen's growth that The Punch Line sounded like a great punk album, but a year later What Makes a Man Start Fires? sounded like a great album -- period.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
One Chapter In The Book
Beacon Sighted Through Fog
Mutiny In Jonestown
East Wind/Faith
Pure Joy
'99
The Anchor

Side Two

Sell Or Be Sold
The Only Minority
Split Red
Colors
Plight
The Tin Roof
Life As A Rehersal
This Road
Polarity

Released on 'SST Records' in 1983

Catalogue No. SST-014

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface marks)

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (light wear)

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