-The first time I heard the Minutemen—on a Saturday afternoon in 8th grade, when my friend lowered the stylus onto “Shit From An Old Notebook,” and the song somersaulted out of his RadioShack speakers in an ecstasy of spasmodic guitar and drum fills—is the greatest “first time someone heard a band and their life changed for all time” of all time. -That song’s jarring first line: “Let the products sell themselves / fuck advertising, commercial psychology / psychological methods to sell should be destroyed,” is the greatest first line of a song of all time.
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David Rees: What Would D. Boon Do? (wish it was me. I think I was like 19 when I first heard the Minutemen, and I had suffered through 10 years of styx). |
