minutemen1984-xx-xx.flac16

Minutemen
1984-12-12
Venue: various
Location: Unknown

01 Anxious Mo-Fo (1984-12-12)
02 Theatre Is the Life of You (1985-05-13)
03 Viet Nam (1984-05-12)
04 Cohesion (1985-10-23)
05 It’s Expected I’m Gone (1984-12-01)
06 #1 Hit Song (1984-05-12)
07 Two Beads at the End (1984-08-02)
08 Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?
09 Don’t Look Now (1984-08-02)
10 Shit from an Old Notebook NOT INCLUDED
11 Nature Without Man NOT INCLUDED
12 One Reporter’s Opinion (1984-08-02)
13 Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
14 Maybe Partying Will Help (1985-05-13)
15 Toadies (1984-12-12)
16 Retreat (1984-08-02)
17 The Big Foist (1984-12-12)
18 God Bows to Math (1984-05-12)
19 Corona (1984-12-12)
20 The Glory of Man (1985-11-30)
21 Take 5, D. NOT INCLUDED
22 My Heart and the Real World (1984-12-08)
23 History Lesson (Part II) (1985-05-13)
24 You Need the Glory NOT INCLUDED
25 The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts
26 Mr. Robot’s Holy Orders (1984-08-02)
27 West Germany (1985-05-13)
28 The Politics of Time NOT INCLUDED
29 Themselves (1984-12-08)
30 Please Don’t Be Gentle With Me (1985-05-13)
31 Nothing Indeed (1984-08-02)
32 No Exchange (1984-08-02)
33 There Ain’t Shit on T.V. Tonight (1985-05-13)
34 This Ain't No Picnic (1984-08-02)
35 Spillage (1985-05-13)
36 Untitled Song for Latin America (1984-12-12)
37 Jesus and Tequila (1984-08-02)
38 June 16th (1985-05-13)
39 Storm in My House (1984-05-12)
40 Martin’s Story (1984-12-08)
41 Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love (1984-08-02)
42 Dr. Wu NOT INCLUDED
43 Little Man With a Gun in His Hand (1985-05-13)
44 The World According to Nouns (1985-05-13)
45 Love Dance (1984-12-08)

Source: Various sources, see above
Trade tape > Computer WAV > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you
Big thanks to the original tapers & sharers of these fine shows.
I completed this compilation 2011-12-25.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
Date following song titles notes the gig each came from:
* 1984-05-12 The Blue Note, Columbia, MO (SBD)
* 1984-08-02 Flynn's Ocean 71, Miami Beach, FL (FM)
* 1984-12-01 The Stone, San Francisco, CA (SBD)
* 1984-12-08 McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA (AUD)
* 1984-12-12 KPFK-FM, Los Angeles, CA (FM)
* 1985-05-13 The Stone, San Francisco, CA (SBD MONO)
* 1985-10-23 The Rat, Boston, MA (Late Show) (AUD)
* 1985-11-30 WREK, Atlanta, GA (FM/SBD)       < **NO** TRACKS FROM 'BALLOT RESULT' CD >
See elsewhere on DIME or archive for the whole shows.
LINE UP
D Boon - guitar, vocals
George Hurley - drums
Mike Watt - bass, vocals
I redid the volume levels for the tracks, first normalizing to 95% as a starting point.
Then I did additional adjustments, bringing louder sources down further / bringing quieter ones up further.
In some spots I minimized clap/bass-note level spikes, so the overall song could be brought up higher.
And on 2 tracks I actually did partial-song-boosts, to compensate for SBD 'quiet part's too quiet' segments.
It's not perfectly even, but it's way better than without the adjustments.
At times I added in fade-ins or fade-outs - Minutemen song transitions can be quick at times.
And I added 2sec of outright silence delineating the LP side flip points.
The basic audio source was not otherwise altered.
Each track was SBE-fixed individually.
NOTES
Hearing the track Martin's Song live (in the recent 1984-12-08 seed, thx for that!) started all this for me.
What you makin', man?  I'm making a comp.
I'm not usually a comp guy, but I felt like assembling this one for myself.
After getting partway thru the process, I thought that others might enjoy it too.
If you like whole shows, pass on this one.
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All but 6 of the tunes that are 'Double Nickels On The Dime', played live & put in the order of the 2xLP.
It's incomplete, as some may not have been played live (or didn't show up in shows I have).
* Take 5 & You Need The Glory sound like messing around in the studio, so I could see why not
* Notebook, Nature, & Politics are really hot tracks, bummer to not find a live version out there
* Dr. Wu, hey they did other covers but why not this one live, I dunno
* and of course the car jams aren't here
Other tracks are imperfect:
* My Heart, guitar cut out a little ways in
* there's a muted-volume spot in the great version of Spillage, & some static in Untitled Song
* Love Dance, w/ no guitars, as if they do it whenever D needs repair time - none had the great guitar solo
And it's weird at times hearing the jump from a hissy FM to a clear SBD, oh well.
What I was after worked out overall, & I think it came out pretty good.
I actually did listen to all versions of the songs, & specifically picked these from the bunch.
Made notes & skipped some right away, then went back & listened to the best versions to see which stood out.
* sometimes sound won out, could hear the vocals (tops on my list here) or instrument mix better
* other times the ferocity of a version made it a must-include, even if there was a buzz in the background
* also tossed out many of the WREK tunes because they self-edited lyrics for airing on radio
Anyway, I didn't just simply grab the most easily available version; each track had a reason to be here.
Tho this is 'live', I edited things tight like the album / notta lotta clapping or between-song chatter etc.
But I did leave bits in, either end of one track or start of next, to fit the LP's between-track flow.
A lotta bands seem to be into this 'do the whole of an LP live, from front to back' nowadays.
With D gone, we'll never get that opportunity.
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I created little stub files for the 6 missing songs, each 1sec of silence.
This keeps the track numbering intact on a CD player.
(yeah EAC warns they're 'less than the 4sec minimum file size for CD audio spec', but it still works/plays.)
You could drop-in the missing songs off the LP in place of the stubs, if you're so inclined.
And it leaves things ready for a similar drop-in update, should live versions of these tracks show up.
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Never forget D. Boon.
Play it loud.
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Crank it up and ENJOY! it as I have, and share it so others can hear it.
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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).
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The usual schmack applies here:
Please don't post this anywhere but DIME.
Please retain this original info file data with any reseedings.
Please don't transfer to MP3 or other lossy formats.
Please only trade this with others, don't sell it.
Please support the artists involved by purchasing their official product in massive quantities.