Minutemen - King Of The Hill
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- What is peace / To the people / Who work the land / And die in wars? / It was learned in a game / That was played by us all / Who held the top of the hill / From the rest was called the king / And I can't believe it all / Was good for humankind / Is it peace / To point the guns? / Is it war / To fire the guns? / We would run with all of our might / Push the king off to take the hill / And to learn who was king / And who makes the better serf / I can't believe it all / Was good for humankind / And I have to read the lies / Between the lines / Believe in this / We are part / Of a whole we call the earth / And I have to read the lies / Between the lines
I think this band transcend genre. They are so fucking good.
+Peter Hellicar Genres, there's a discussion... Of course a person can say, "Yeah - that's the band I'm talking about" or "Yeah, that's that kind of music." but, what a world... the Minutemen are all of their own and their band name too speaks volumes.
Without question!
what you wrote is true!
I'm a hip hop fan kinda and I love them
To me, they’re a true punk rock band. same with The Clash. Not Black Flag and Ramones. This. this is real punk. It’s what punk was supposed to be all about.
The whole band is amazing but Boon is a criminally underrated guitar player.
I missed the Minutemen but saw fIREHOSE about a half dozen times around Los Angeles - Mike & George were the greatest "Punk" rhythm section of all time.
If the band had enough money, they would have sounded like Rush. But the bare sound of SST 'studios' is iconic. Boon was one of the best guitar players I'd heard, and his compositions are bold, and masterful, cutting edge.
Absolutely.
Well it doesn't help that he thought a bass guitar and a guitar were both just guitars that had different strings when he started haha.
With that kind of start, there's really no basis to judge someone off of! They're just...their own thing haha
d boon was number 89 on Rolling Stones greatest guitarists of all time. I'm not sure anyone familiar with The Minutemen and guitar players would say he's underrated. Maybe relatively obscure or not well known. All it takes is listening to a couple of his songs to tell how good he was . Guy was a fucking master.
Just saying.
"I had to read the lines between the lies" is brilliant!
someone who actually DESERVES a signature guitar!
The one D. Boon was playing for this video is a Gibson Melody Maker that Mike Watt painted with cans of yellow paint, and also added a Strat Pup to in the bridge position, beside the metal pickguard. He didn't use it to record the guitar solo of this song, though, that sounds like a Telecaster Neck Pickup, and he often played Telecasters.
And today (Dec. 22, 2020) marks the 35th anniversary of d. Boone’s death
at the age of 27 in a traffic accident. The axel fell off of his van
while he was resting in the back. For punk rock in Los Angeles, that is
the day the music died. Mike Watt did amazing work with fIREHOSE (and
other bands) after that, but it definitely broke a part of his heart
forever.
Heard rumours that the van was sabotaged by the authorities. Has anyone else heard similarly? Can't vouch for any views in particular one way or another, but it wouldn't surprise me.
damn i cant even believe its been that long. i was lucky to have seen them at the LA street scene they were amazing.
Happy birthday D. Boon who would have been 56 today.
And this year 2024, he would have been 66. Doesn't seem possible. I took flowers to his and his mom's graves. Just felt like it should be done. 🙏
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30 somethin years ago I first heard this . And it still gets me like it did when I was a teenager . RIP D boon . Long live the Minutemen ...
LOVE MINUTEMEN! This song made me understand that other people must die for my bbq
thinking you must be very troubled mind.
@@fredericksaturnine4167 ignorance is bliss
I just wanna grill for god's sake
Perfectly grilled meat for The People!!
we have the best patients in the world...because of jail
RIP D. Boon (April 1, 1958 - December 22, 1985), aged 27
You will be remembered as a legend
The 27 Club
this is the best music video that was ever made and the minutemen are the best band ever made
D. Boon was taken away from us way too soon.
Such an intelligent band with a great sense of humor. A lot of their contemporaries in the punk scene took themselves way too seriously, and The Minutemen trumped them all in terms of experimentation and musical diversity by incorporating more varied influences and actually being able to lay down a groove.
Great video by the best band of all bands. The imagery is so powerful and even today helps us to understand the world the Minutemen lived in. Most of their experiences are now foreign to us but this gentlemen were very creative and their work is charged with the power of their ideas. The best part is that they are having fun and their art came straight from the heart even when they were trying to make a hit record.
Holy shit, I’m now converted, love this very underrated band.
D.boon is God!
When I first got into punk I never listened to Minutemen. I heard about them but I liked hardcore and crossover more. At the same time I was learning how to play the guitar. When I would play I would subconsciously do that move D Boon does in this video and in other. Once I got sick of the same bands I came back to Minutemen and loved them instantly. RIP D Boon, the greatest front man in all punk.
R.I.P. D. Boon, the singer/guitarist. He would have been 61 years old today: born on April 1, 1958.
And now in 2024, 66. 😔
SO MUCH awesome imagery in this.
Helps you to realize that this ain't no picnic.
+Phillip Roberts Yeah, if you listen to the lyrics, it'll make you think it's paranoid time...
Phillip Roberts It makes me wanna Buzz or Howl under the influence of Heat!
It's a like, a political song for Michael Jackson to sing.
if you read your history youll realize the lyrcs are spot on. mr von sterner...
The ideas remind me of some shit from an old notebook I had a while ago
I love how Mike is laying the slab for D boone its so heavy one of the best funk bands glad SST put them out
One of the absolute greatest bands ever; Og I love them still.
I wish I could go back in time and see Minutemen live
D rolling down the hills at the end of the vid made my day 🤗 i used to do that when i was a kid
HaHaHa epic D. Boon grass roll @2:48...miss you Minutemen!
Was in 10th-11th grade when this came out - makes me feel old. Minutemen and X - got me into more than just hardcore. I would take Double Nickles if I were stranded on an island
2019 And I STILL Miss You D. BOON!!! R.I.P.!!!!! 🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶
Pride of Pedro!
His anniversary today :( 27 years gone...but not forgotten. D Boon is the King of the Hill.
love D.Boon rolling down the hill!
D.Boon and Mike Watt..the perfect combo!
When someone asks me what music I liked in the 80s early 90s, I used to just say punk. But that is so broad. I now point them to this video
What a totally awesome song!
d.boon god rest your soul you ruled the guiter brother....OC RICK WESTMINSTER
It was 1985. This video was my introduction to this band. Loved this song. I then bought "Project: Mersh" on cassette from my local record shop. Then, just as I was getting to discover and actually dig this band, D. Boon gets killed in that fatal car wreck.
one of the most innovative bands in punk-hc. Their path was followed by bands like Victims' Famliy and No Means No.
Hurley's hair. :) What a great band!
Will the last American to leave San Pedro please grab the flag?
This is fresh as ever
The Minutemen are badass!!
i did catch the mike watt tour fo rhis tugboat album with Vedder, Grohl and the guitarist from foo fighters now! that was an awesome show, they all played each instrument as they rotated from song to song!
These guys brought messages, D boon greatest front man of all time
I remember watching this video when I was 12 back in the late 80’s on the USA ch when they would show videos late at night.
This stuff is unreal. It's innovative, it's dynamic, it's socially conscious, it's funny, and it rocks. It blew my mind in the best of ways to learn that the theme to "Jackass" is a leftist anti-war anthem in itself. Minutemen were too cool for school, and still are.
Probably the best alternative video ever!!
God they rocked! a lot of people will never have the chance to see them and thats a shame! saw them in 1986 opening for REM it was one show i will never forget!
you forgot boon died in 85 so no way you saw them in 86.
this video must have been fun as hell to shoot
b1ack c0wboy this and every ween video
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Boognish
@@wigner stay brown
Boon feeding his face, what a crazy concept. Just playing R.I.P. to the King Of The Hill
GOOD VIDEO POLITICS, HUMOR ,ORDER,MUSIC!
They have a popularity greater than the velvet underground. not as much recorded history, maybe more will surface with time.
YOU are VERY WRONG about EVERYTHING
why dont we hear more about george hurley?
There must exist some copy of this video in better quality somewhere out there, I really hope someone find it someday
Thank god these guys met. R.I.P D.Boon
NICE!
It's just crazy that like a year later D. Boone was dead....
Purely amazing.
I've been listening to Minutemen for over a decade and I've never heard this song!
Dude the fucking Mr. T mask gets me every time. So good.
The microphone loved his voice. True.
to be honest cant remember, i just remember i was ushering at the FOX theater where they opened with Jason and the Scorchers for REM, i know it was one of the last tours because as i discovered them and D Boone, a chubby jamming dude jumping around the stage, i was hooked and bought double nickel which only got me even more hooked and then news came he had passed away, so i spend most of my time watching "we jam econo" to make up for it, so which ever year they opened for REM!
This is a PIC-NIC
Wow never knew this existed. So cool. D boon for milessss
I remember when this video came out. I thought, The Minutemen would change MTV, and then MTV would change the world. And it did. It invented reality television.
That might have been the very last show they ever played, In December 1985.
Say WATT ?
P=IR = P equals current times resistance
can't deny the times
Don't drop the MIKE!
Rip Mike Watt i went through 3 of him on Mordheim City of the Damned
@@ciaranconner4770 mike watt is still alive
Fucking love this band
Mission of Burma and the Minutemen - greartest three pieces of all time
best video ever
So underrated D Boon tragically gone too soon RIP
Hella Dope!
I was stationed at Sunnyvale Air Force station with Boons brother. We hung out took wizwaz and went to Peter Gabriel concert. Wonder whatever happened to him I lost contact after I got out of the Air Force.
It takes talent to roll down the hill street I'll tell you that. And this man had talent
Love these guys. Alongside Minor Threat and Void.
Are those burp noises only in the music video? I think so.
finally a mildly clear video of it
I used to have that exact crown!
greatest guitar solo ever?
the hill looks familiar------Blind Melon?
The only signature guitar I play is the one with my name on it, no hero worship!!! That's the biggest hype thingamabob ever, next to "vintage."
It's like Devo had a nephew who was more punk than his uncle and said I'm gunna do it my way!
The should've been the King of the Hill show's theme.
That's a horrible idea. This song stands against everything the clown on that show stands for. I was not a huge fan. But I think using the refreshments a fun Texas band if nothing else, was probably the best idea.
I never really listened to The Minutemen, just knew of them and Mike Watt. But everywhere I read they label them under hardcore punk/punk. This may be a lot more experimental punk, but it's definitely a lot different than the sounds of the time. Not bad, just different, I don't know that i'd lump it in with hardcore punk.
The were never hardcore. Of course, all of those labels have malleable and amorphous meanings, since British punks, NY punks, and Cali punks were all totally different. Mike and D. always called themselves punk, but their understanding of the word is basically that any person who isn't "part of the professional music scene" can still "do music" without having to pass some corporate acceptability test. To them, punk just means doing your own thing. They did it with other Cali punks who were more "standard" Cali punk, like Black Flag, but they were true to themselves and actually enjoyed musicianship much more than the scene and the pose.
its funy id play that game when i was a kid in illinois in the snow
Someone, Please write a transcript of the words said before the song starts?
Some guy: Is this freedom?
People: No!
Some guy: Is this democracy?
People: No!
Some guy: Is this equality?
People: No!
Some guy: What do we want?
People: Freedom!
Some guy: When?
People: Now!
-Song starts-
TheAwesomeGingerGuy Thanks. I hear it now.
D. Boon’s words are not in vain
Am I the only one seeing The Riptides - 77 Sunset Strip under Recommendations? It seems like an odd choice for the recommendations bar. I've seen the video before and they were an Australian band that played somewhat poppy music.
If you don't know the minutemen, you don't know real punk. Even better if you have seen them in their fucked up glory.
Saw them in ‘85 in Columbia, MO at the original Blue Note. Great show. What a good time to be a punk. Saw bands like Husker Du and The Meat Puppets and Flipper and of course Black Flag. A few years later saw firehose and Sonic Youth. Got to hang with them after the show.
I'm wondering about the making of this video. Got info about it? Hey Mike Watt, Would you mind sharing some thoughts about it?
That Solo sounds like it was played with a Telecaster neck pickup, Not a Strat pickup in the bridge area.
Who is the kid at 2:01 and is he related to any of the band members?
This is the humans death anthem. Loved since I was like 20
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This one's for you D.
The video gives off a very devo vibe
BRILL XX
Rip d. Boon.
Love it!
Damn they rule!
I dont know this band, but i have a friend who is an expert, do you want me to give him a call?
I wonder how that bit with the kid worked, Like did D. Boon say "OK, After I speak please eat the cookie/ice cream sandwich" or what?
Legendarios
0:55 so this is where the centrist grilling meme came from?
Doe anyone else think the Trumpeter resembles Coop from Wet Hot American Summer?
I think he looks like john lithgow
Another settlement needs you help I’ll mark i’ll mark it on your map
....weird..how this is the second time today I've seen this comment. first was on pornhub and I'm actually playing the game right now. Trippy.
Rude wait what
damn d boon is a decent singer!!!!!!!!!!!!!