• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About
  • Archives
  • Contact

Medialoper

We're Not Who You Think We Are

History Lesson Part II

Certain Songs #1146: Minutemen – “History Lesson (Part II)”

March 4, 2018 by Jim Connelly

Album: Double Nickels on The Dime
Year: 1984

Like their power trio contemporaries, labelmates and friendly rivals, Hüsker Dü, the Minutemen were both incredibly prolific and getting better by leaps and bounds. And yet it was still a massive shock when both bands released their twin landmark double-albums, Zen Arcade and Double Nickles on The Dime, during the long hot summer of 1984.

The irony, of course, is while the straightforward pop-punk of the Hüskers was always far more my jam than the jazz econo of the Minutemen, the Hüskers never wrote a song that resonated to me as personally on a lyrical level than the opening verse of “History Lesson Part II.”

[Read more…] about Certain Songs #1146: Minutemen – “History Lesson (Part II)”

Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Double Nickels on the Dime, History Lesson Part II, Minutemen

Primary Sidebar

Lopy

Search

Previously on Medialoper

  • Certain Songs #2547: Sugar – “Man on the Moon”
  • Certain Songs #2546: Sugar – “If I Can’t Change Your Mind”
  • Certain Songs #2545: Sugar – “Helpless”
  • Certain Songs #2544: Sugar – “Changes”
  • Certain Songs #2543: Sugar – “A Good Idea”

Copyright © 2023 · Medialoper