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Emusic Downloads for May

I’m not sure this month’s downloads are entirely successful, ‘cuz I’ve not done a lot of listening. But one thing I’m sure about: What Makes a Man Start Fires will not be regretted. The documentary, We Jam Econo, got me all fired up about the Minutemen again. And I’m remember how weird I felt when I first heard them. Weird and intrigued to feel like everything I’d ever known about music was…incomplete. Like I had a lot of work to do, and it would never ever get done.  I would never stop learning and I would always be excited about rock music and what you could do with it.

I was wrong about that. You get old and you start to get bored with music. It ceases to matter the way it did when you were 17 and 21 and 24, and music was all you thought about. You get old, and you get bored. You get boring. But it’s nothing we can blame on The Minutemen. You hear the word "uncompromising" thrown around a lot. But that was the Minutemen. The sound of not compromising.