Genre: Rock
Original Release: N/A
1. Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
1:27
2. One Chapter in the Book
1:00
3. Fake Contest
1:44
4. Beacon Sighted Through Fog
5. Mutiny in Jonestown
1:06
6. East Wind/Faith
2:10
7. Pure Joy
1:30
8. '99
9. Anchor
2:30
10. Sell or Be Sold
1:45
11. Only Minority
12. Split Red
:52
13. Colors
2:05
14. Plight
1:37
15. Tin Roof
1:08
16. Life as a Rehearsal
1:35
17. This Road
1:26
18. Polarity
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 Read More
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