Double Nickels on the Dime

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Double Nickels on the Dime
A photograph shot from the back of a car of a man driving
Studio album by
Minutemen
ReleasedJuly 3, 1984[1]
RecordedNovember 1983–April 1984
StudioRadio Tokyo Studios, Venice, California
Genre
Length81:01
LabelSST (028)
ProducerEthan James
Minutemen chronology
The Politics of Time
(1984) 		Double Nickels on the Dime
(1984) 		Project: Mersh
(1985)

Double Nickels on the Dime is the third album by American punk trio Minutemen, released on the California independent record label SST Records in 1984. A double album containing 45 songs, Double Nickels on the Dime combines elements of punk rock, funk, country, spoken word and jazz, and references a variety of themes, from the Vietnam War and racism in America, to working-class experience and linguistics.

After recording new material, each band member selected songs for different sides of the double album, with the fourth side named "Chaff". Several songs on Double Nickels on the Dime were outsourced to or inspired by contemporaries, such as Black Flag's Henry Rollins and Jack Brewer of Saccharine Trust.

Double Nickels on the Dime is seen not only as Minutemen's crowning achievement, but, according to critic Mark Deming, "one of the very best American rock albums of the 1980s".[6] The album now appears on many professional lists of the all-time best rock albums, including Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[7] Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 77 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".[8] Despite this, the full version of the album is only available on vinyl.

  1. ^ Moody, Mark (December 27, 2017). "Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime". Soundlab. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
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  3. ^ Pell, Nicholas (August 29, 2013). "TOP 20 HARDCORE ALBUMS IN HISTORY: COMPLETE LIST". Retrieved May 28, 2022.
  4. ^ Musician (129-134 ed.). Amordian Press. 1989. p. 23.
  5. ^ Doyle Greene (March 10, 2014). The Rock Cover Song: Culture, History, Politics. McFarland & Company. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-7864-7809-5.
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  7. ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. May 31, 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  8. ^ "Best Albums of the 1980s". Slant Magazine. March 5, 2012. Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved June 7, 2019.