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1985 studio album by Minutemen
3-Way Tie (For Last) is the fourth and final full-length album recorded by the American
punk band
Minutemen . It is notable for featuring several
covers of songs by
the Urinals ,
Meat Puppets ,
Blue Öyster Cult ,
Creedence Clearwater Revival , and
Roky Erickson .
[8] The last song, a cover of Erickson's "Bermuda", was sung over the phone by
Mike Watt .
[9]
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?").
[8] At around the time that the album was recorded, Watt and Roessler formed
Dos .
The album included ballots for listeners to vote on the track list for what would become
Ballot Result .
[10]
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 ,
Mike Watt ) – 3:56
"Courage" (Boon) – 2:35
"
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? " (
John Fogerty ) – 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" (
Roky Erickson ) – 1:41
Personnel
Minutemen
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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b
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^ Dougan, John.
3-Way Tie at
AllMusic . Retrieved 2 April 2006.
^ Thompson, Dave (April 12, 2000).
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Canongate Books .
ISBN
978-0-86241-827-4 . Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
^
Hull, Tom .
"Grade List: the minutemen" . Tom Hull – on the web . Retrieved September 4, 2020 .
^
a
b
Azerrad, Michael (2002).
Our Band Could Be Your Life .
Back Bay Books . pp. 90–91.
ISBN
978-0-316-78753-6 .
^
Watt, Mike (June 1, 2019).
"Bermuda" .
Twitter . Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
^ Hillburn, Robert (February 7, 1987).
"A Votive 'Ballot' For D. Boon" .
Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
^ Lazell, Barry (1997).
Indie Hits 1980-1989 . Cherry Red Books. Archived from
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