| D. Boon & Friends / D. Boon & Friends |
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| Album: | D. Boon & Friends | Collection: | Missing | |
| Artist: | D. Boon & Friends | Added: | Dec 2003 | |
| Label: | Independent | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-01-26 | Pull Date: | 2004-03-29 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 21 | Mar 14 | Feb 29 | Feb 15 | Feb 8 | Feb 1 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 12, 2005: | Distraction-Limited Many As One | 4. | Feb 25, 2004: | Sad, Furious & Dangerous Many As One | |
| 2. | Mar 18, 2004: | One More Spin Many As One | 5. | Feb 13, 2004: | Juan 2-3-Show Jam #6, Everyone Was there | |
| 3. | Mar 10, 2004: | Beware the Ides of March... Many As One | 6. | Feb 08, 2004: | the rust belt History Lesson - Part Ii |
| Album Review |
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| Elias (Dr Furious) Reviewed 2004-01-18 | ||
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Legendary Minutemen guitar fiend D. Boon died in 1985 in a fatal car accident when he and his girfriend fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from a concert. This is a release of obscure low-fi recordings (ca. 194-85) mostly in-home and live jam sessions but also 7 live tracks (#26-32) from a Minutemen gig at UCLA. Besides being a daily obsession, D. Boon's trebly guitar (treble-10, midrange-0, bass-0) was a canvas for stylistic explorations including the colors of free jazz, funk, folk and blues. This CD offers a pretty good glimpse of D. Boon's genius. At a purely academic level, this will help you comprehend Minutemen's quantum leap from "The Punch Line" (their first punk release) to "Double Nickels on the Dime" (a critically acclaimed all-time classic, and Minutemen's response to Husker Du's "Zen Arcade"). And hence the evolution from punk power-chords to flamenco, polka and jazz is evident. Here D. Boon's guitar sound is as if the improvisational free-jazz experimentations of John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service; a 60s Frisco psych band) and Bryan Maclean (the Love) were fused to the proto-/post-punk guitar antics of Tom Verlain (Television). Add in the mix a little of Jimi Hendrix blues/funk fluidity, and there you have it. Genius work; fun to listen! For nice tunes with beautiful vox, play: 32, 25, 18, 22, 23. For menacing ambient noisy post-punk synth chunes: 33, 14 (11->12->13). For darker Minutemen punk: 29 1. Funk grooves, free-jazz psych picking, post-punk angular noisy solos. Female voice arguing/fighting in the background. 2. Bluesy with synth keys. 3. Angular free-jazzy jam. 4. 30 sec - spacy 5. 75 sec - sparse, soft 7. Acoustic jam with spanish influences 8. Psychedelic;; sparse; free-jazzy 9. 20 s; Doesn't go anywhere 10. Live jam; heavy sound 11. 40 s; beautiful synth 12, 13: Spooky dissonant noisy sparse keys 14. See 12/13 but with psych vox; interupted by a phone call. 15. 1 min - jazzy 16. Neurotic and dissonant 17. Jimi Hendrix meets post-punk 18. Woody Guthrie's classic 19. Noisy and neurotic 20. Noisy synth 21. Nice bluesy strut with vox 22, 23: Nice catchy bouncy punk with nice vox 24. Folky; sentimental 25. Wow... impressive! Blue grass meets southern europe. Passionate. Think Will Oldham. 26. Noisy 27. Acidic funk/blues grooves. 28. Angular and jazzy 29. Good ole edgy punk - mid tempo 30. Another awesome punk number (FCC: 2X shit; you can probably get away with it). 31. Twangy guitar work; groovy 32. THIS IS AWESOME - GREAT POP CHUNE FOR D. BOON's EARLY PUNK DAYS. IT WILL MAKE YOU CRY! 33. Sparse menacing psych track. Great! | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Everyone Was there | 17. | Hammerdown I | |||
| 2. | Fifth Gear | 18. | This Land Is Your Land | |||
| 3. | Deadline | 19. | Hammerdown Ii | |||
| 4. | The Waiting Stage | 20. | Our New Industrial Direction | |||
| 5. | Indecision | 21. | That's All there Is | |||
| 6. | Theme From Empty Box | 22. | My Part | |||
| 7. | The Long Road Home | 23. | Don't Look Now | |||
| 8. | Take You there | 24. | Plight | |||
| 9. | Freedom Forever | 25. | Corona | |||
| 10. | Jam #6 | 26. | But First... | |||
| 11. | Binky's Round Up | 27. | I Felt Like a Gringo | |||
| 12. | Too Much Fun | 28. | God Bows to Math | |||
| 13. | All Over the Place | 29. | Themselves | |||
| 14. | The Viking Song | 30. | Self-Referenced | |||
| 15. | Just Around the Corner | 31. | #1 Hit Song | |||
| 16. | As Long As | 32. | History Lesson - Part Ii | |||
| 33. | Many As One | |||||