The Secondman's Middle Stand

The Secondman's Middle Stand
Studio album by
Mike Watt
ReleasedAugust 24, 2004
RecordedJanuary 16—February 16, 2004
GenreAlternative rock
Length53:10
LabelColumbia
ProducerMike Watt
Mike Watt chronology
Contemplating the Engine Room
(1997) 		The Secondman's Middle Stand
(2004) 		Hyphenated-man
(2010/2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone(mixed)[2]
Pitchfork7.5/10[3]

The Secondman's Middle Stand was Mike Watt's third solo album and the first full-length recording that he had made under his own name since the release of Contemplating The Engine Room in 1997.

The storyline for the nine-track album parallel's Watt's real-life January 2000 bout with a near-fatal infection in his perineum with one of his favorite pieces of literature, Dante's The Divine Comedy.[3] The first three tracks of the album represent the Inferno (Watt's illness up until the time the abscess burst); the second three songs represent the Purgatorio (Watt's surgery and subsequent recovery), and the final three represent the Paradisio (Watt's resuming his everyday life and career).[3]

  1. ^ "The Secondman's Middle Stand - Mike Watt". Allmusic.
  2. ^ "The Secondman's Middle Stand". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 26, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c Murphy, Matthew (August 25, 2004). "The Secondman's Middle Stand". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 8, 2019.