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The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (33 1/3) Paperback – April 18, 2007

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The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely on their music - the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs that comprise this, their greatest achievement. Including extensive interviews with Mike Watt and many others close to and inspired by the band, this is a great tribute to a classic piece of American underground music.

Included are extensive interviews with Mike Watt, the band's bass player, as well as interviews with several artists, musicians, studio owners, and fanzine writers who have been devoted followers of the band for years.

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    33 1/3
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    106 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
    Continuum
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    April 18, 2007
  6. Dimensions
    4.8 x 0.45 x 6.6 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0826427871
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0826427878
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"How do you showcase the Minutemen's Double Nickels On The Dime, a sprawling opus of a punk record, spanning more than 40 songs over four LP sides? It's a formidable task that could easily get out of hand, but Michael T. Fournier takes a simple, no-nonsense approach in this installment of the Continuum 33 1/3 series, and this sensibility takes us into the heart and soul of the band and their crowning achievement.

Fournier dives right into the band's history, giving us a short overview of the basics; how they formed, the band members' various personalities, and how they got to the point of releasing Double Nickels. The band was notorious for using inside jokes and obscure references, which played itself out in the theme of the record. Fournier breaks down their overall approach, including an interesting bit on how the album name and cover photo played off of Sammy Hagar's I Can't Drive 55, of all things. He also explains the structure of the album and how each separate side came into being, with each band member getting a side, and leftovers ending up on the last side, nicknamed Chaff.

From there, Fournier goes into each song on the album, providing back stories and anecdotes, including interviews with bassist Mike Watt himself. The book does a great job of pulling back the layers of quirkiness that the band painted themselves in, shining light on some of the mysteries of one of the 80s greatest indie punk records." --Mish Mash Music Reviews



About the Author

Michael T. Fournier is also the author of "Hidden Wheel," a punk rock novel published by Three Rooms Press. He has taught punk rock history at Tufts University and Emerson College. His writing has appeared in the Oxford American and Vice. He is the editor of Cabildo Quarterly, a broadsheet journal. Fournier lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and their cat.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Continuum; 2nd edition (April 18, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 106 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826427871
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826427878
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.8 x 0.45 x 6.6 inches
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Michael T. Fournier is the author of Double Nickels on the Dime (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2007), Hidden Wheel (Three Rooms Press, 2011) and Swing State (Three Rooms Press, 2014). He graduated from University of Maine's MA program, where he won the Steven Grady Award for fiction.

His writing has appeared in Razorcake --America's only non-profit punk magazine -- as well as Pitchfork, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Vice, Oxford American, Boston Globe, Entropy, The Millions and more

Mike is the co-editor of Zisk and publisher of Policymaker, a monthly one-pager. He's the drummer and main songwriter for Dead Trend, and plays bass for Plaza, Cape Cod's #1 band.

A lifelong Red Sox fan, he lives on Cape Cod with his wife Rebecca and their cats.

Regular updates are available at michaeltfournier.org.

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storm
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2012
Clear writing and great facts! Mr. Fournier clearly knows his stuff. Five stars. I can't recommend this book enough. The first reviewer on this list of reviews reminds me of Jack Black in High Fidelity.
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Michael P. McCullough
5.0 out of 5 stars My Heart and the Real World
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2009
I have a lot of favorite albums but this album is my #1 favorite album of all.

I was delighted to find a 33 1/3 issue has been made regarding this album. This book goes through the album song by song and adds a lot of well researched facts and interesting commentary.

This album spoke to me like no other. Good job Michael Fournier!
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Sid Stanford
5.0 out of 5 stars The Minutemen Can Drive 55
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2007
An excellent read, quite econo in its own right. With a great level of detail, shared in an interesting fashion, this is the best of the 33 1/3 books I've read to date, and will keep me looking for more of them. I loved the fact that they took so much effort to get the cover shot just right for the record, only to have it cropped on them at the end! Classic! Also, great to read about how the energy of the scene at the time just cross fueled so many important artists.
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michael savage
3.0 out of 5 stars This guy goes way too into detail just describing the ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2014
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This guy goes way too into detail just describing the songs and the book has a huge amount of typos. The author talks about himself too much. It is worth reading if you're a fan of the album though.
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rblake
5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough, Extremely Enjoyable
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2007
Fournier, aside from proving years and years of fanhood and research for this book, has proven himself a biographical writer worth noting. His writing contains more relevant and interesting material than I could have asked for, while managing to trap my interest for pages on end. A worthy investment for anyone, whether a new or life long Minutemen fanatic.
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Rich L.
4.0 out of 5 stars This Ain't No Picnic, indeed
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2012
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A dense and great book about a dense and great album. Unless you've memorized the whole album, I suggest you read along while listening to the album. There's a lot of info here (just like the album) but it is very rewarding at the end.
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Eric K.
2.0 out of 5 stars Skip it
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015
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Just watch "We Jam Econo." It's a great documentary, it's free on YouTube, it will take up as much or less of your time as this book, and--most important--it's clearly the primary source material for Mr. Fournier's effort here. True, there is some original research in the book, but it mostly concerns the sort of trivia and arcana that only the most obsessive fan really craves. I appreciate Fournier's obvious love of his subject matter (which I share), and I understand that an adjunct needs whatever writing gig comes his way, but you should probably pass on this one.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Bad OCR, never proofread.
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2016
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This is a ripoff. Terrible OCR makes several passages difficult to comprehend (for one example, took me a while to figure out that "Gende" meant "Gentle"). The publisher obviously didn't proofread the Kindle version. To charge $10 for such shoddy work is abusive.
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g.p. bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2022
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