3-Way Tie (For Last)

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3-Way Tie (For Last)
3-Way Tie (For Last) cover
Studio album by Minutemen
Released December 1985
Recorded August-September 1985
Genre Alternative/Punk
Length 36:11
Label SST
Producer(s) Mike Watt, D. Boon, Ethan James
Professional reviews
Minutemen chronology
Project: Mersh
(1985)
3-Way Tie (For Last)
(1985)
Ballot Result
(1987)


3-Way Tie (For Last) is the fourth and final full-length album recorded by Minutemen. It is particularly notable for featuring several cover songs by bands such as the Urinals, Meat Puppets, Blue Öyster Cult, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was released very shortly before the untimely death of D. Boon who also painted the cover. Watt collaborated with Black Flag bassist Kira Roessler on three tracks ("No One", "Stories", and "What Is It?"). Around the time that the album was recorded, Watt and Roessler formed Dos. The last song, a cover of Roky Erickson's "Bermuda" was sung over the phone by Mike Watt.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side D.

  1. Price of Paradise – 3:38 (Boon)
  2. Lost – 2:33 (Kirkwood)
  3. The Big Stick – 2:34 (Boon)
  4. Political Nightmare – 3:56 (Boon)
  5. Courage – 2:35 (Boon)
  6. Have You Ever Seen the Rain? – 2:30 (Fogerty)

[edit] Side Mike

  1. The Red and the Black – 4:09 (Bloom, Bouchard, Pearlman)
  2. Spoken Word Piece – 1:07 (Watt)
  3. No One – 3:29 (Roessler, Watt)
  4. Stories – 1:36 (Roessler, Watt)
  5. What Is It? – 1:51 (Roessler, Watt)
  6. Ack Ack Ack :27 (Johansen, Jones, Talley)
  7. Just Another Soldier – 1:58 (Boon)
  8. Situations at Hand – 1:23 (Watt)
  9. Hittin' the Bong – 0:41 (Watt)
  10. Bermuda – 1:41 (Erickson)

[edit] Musical Personnel

  • D. Boon - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, piano
  • Mike Watt - bass, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • George Hurley - drums
  • Joe Baiza - lead guitar ("Situations At Hand")
  • Ethan James - Linn drum ("What Is It?"), Vietnam War battlefield tape ("Spoken Word Piece")
The Minutemen
D. Boon | Mike Watt | George Hurley
Discography
Albums: The Punch Line | What Makes a Man Start Fires? | Double Nickels on the Dime | 3-Way Tie (For Last) | Ballot Result
Extended plays: Paranoid Time | Joy | Bean-Spill | Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat | Tour-Spiel | Project: Mersh | Georgeless E.P.
Compilations: The Politics of Time | My First Bells | Post-Mersh Vol. 1 | Post-Mersh Vol. 2 | Post-Mersh Vol. 3 | Introducing the Minutemen
Other releases: Minuteflag | D. Boon and Friends
Bootlegs: ...Just A Minute, Men | Live In 1985: Acoustic Blowout | Live At Flynn's Ocean 71
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The Reactionaries | New Alliance Records | Martin Tamburovich | George Hurley and Mike Watt