Artist	Song
Firehose	Sometimes
Firehose	Chemical Wire
Minutemen	My Heart And The Real World
Firehose	Brave Captain
Minutemen	I Felt Like A Gringo
Firehose	Slack Motherf*cker (live)
Minutemen	Cut
Firehose	Honey, Please
Minutemen	#1 Hit Song
Firehose	Riddle Of The Eighties
Minutemen	Fortunate Son
Firehose	For The Singer Of R.E.M.
Minutemen	Tour-Spiel
Firehose	Under The Influence Of Meat Puppets
Minutemen	Corona
Firehose	Making The Freeway
Minutemen	Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
Firehose	Locked-In
Firehose	Mannequin (live)
Minutemen	History Lesson, Part II
Firehose	Herded Into Pools
Minutemen	Themselves
Firehose	Choose Any Memory
Minutemen	The Product
Firehose	Caroms
Minutemen	This Ain't No Picnic
Firehose	Relatin' Dudest To Jazz
Minutemen	Search
Firehose	Time With You
Minutemen 31. Firehose 32. Minutemen	Take Our Test Hear Me Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

Comment:

This is another one of those clearing-some-old-cd's-off-the-shelves mixes, pulling all I need from these two bands together so I can box up a bunch of discs I all-but-never reach for these days. Still, considering the lion's share of this comes from 3 cd's, with a smattering of tunes from others, it came out quite nicely, and reminded me why I liked these bands so much back in the day.
I know it's sacrilege in these here parts, but I was never hugely into the Minutemen. Sure, they had the best rhythm section in indie rock, and a primo lyricist in the late D. Boon, but however innovative they may have been, they rarely captivated me. The sole exception, of course, is the timeless Double Nickels On The Dime, a stunning album I probably reach for once every year or two and continue to be blown away. Most of the Minutemen tracks here come from that opus, with a couple tracks from before and after. (For a true Minutemen mix, check out Rob Conroy's thorough compilation.)
After Boon's tragic death, I know a lot of fans were put off when Watt/Hurley regrouped with a new singer as Firehose. Yet, personally, I thought those first two Firehose albums stood out as among the better albums in those post-R.E.M./pre-Pavement wilderness years of late 80's indie rock. Yeah, it was still all about that rhythm section, but Ed From Ohio wrote some great hooks of his own, taking the band in a new, more poppy direction while retaining a surprising amount of that Minutemen innovation. Each of those albums had easily a half-dozen tracks that hold up today as lost classics. Sadly, the band dropped off in quality after that, and I pretty much lost interest, though for reasons I can't explain, Watt's "Herded Into Pools" from the band's 5th and final album remains one of my favorite tracks of the 90's. Great sound, and a chorus to die for.

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