Paranoid Time

Minutemen’s raw, angular punk on SST Records captures the band’s restless energy—three-minute bursts of jagged guitar, propulsive bass, and urgent vocals that reject both polish and pretense. D. Boon’s sloganeering and Mike Watt’s melodic bass lines anchor songs that feel like they might collapse under their own intensity, yet somehow hold together through sheer conviction. Essential SST punk that influenced underground rock for decades.