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, released in 1985 by

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. It features covers of songs by the Urinals,

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, and

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. The last song, a cover of Erickson's "Bermuda", was sung over the phone by

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. The album was released very shortly before the death of D. Boon, who also painted the cover. Watt collaborated with Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler on four tracks ("Political Nightmare", "No One", "Stories", and "What Is It?"). At around the time that the album was recorded, Watt and Roessler formed

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. The album included ballots for listeners to vote on the track list for what would become '' Ballot Result''.

Reception

Byron Coley at ''

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'' said, "The four lyrics here that were written by Boon (most of the others are by former Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler) deal in express terms with topics such as Vietnam, Nicaragua, and 'the men who die for glory'. As purist anti-military-industrialist rant they are as forthright in intent as

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's songs ever were. And if they aren't quite as archly funny, well, hell, they still rock like a fuckin’ schooner."

Track listing

;Side D. #"Price of Paradise" ( D. Boon) – 3:38 #"Lost" ( Curt Kirkwood) – 2:33 #"The Big Stick" (Boon) – 2:34 #"Political Nightmare" ( Kira Roessler,

) – 3:56 #"Courage" (Boon) – 2:35 #" Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" (

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) – 2:30 ;Side Mike #"The Red and the Black" ( Eric Bloom, Albert Bouchard, Sandy Pearlman) – 4:09 #"Spoken Word Piece" (Watt) – 1:07 #"No One" (Roessler, Watt) – 3:29 #"Stories" (Roessler, Watt) – 1:36 #"What Is It?" (Roessler, Watt) – 1:51 #"Ack Ack Ack" ( Johansen, Jones, Talley) – 0:27 #"Just Another Soldier" (Boon) – 1:58 #"Situations at Hand" (Watt) – 1:23 #"Hittin' the Bong" (Watt) – 0:41 #"Bermuda" (

) – 1:41

Personnel

;Minutemen * D. Boon – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, piano *

– bass, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar * George Hurley – drums with: * Joe Baiza – guitar ("Situations At Hand") * Ethan James – Linn drum ("What Is It?"), Vietnam War battlefield tape ("Spoken Word Piece")

Charts

References

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