#267 Minutemen, 'Double Nickels on the Dime' (1984)

What do Hüsker Dü, Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson have in common? This record, as it happens. For some reason, I don’t remember this album at all from the last countdown. A seminal punk album, and one that arguably changed the course of the punk scene. On this their magnum opus, the band pushed past the stylistic limitations of the hardcore scene ad gave us a record of straight up punk, hardcore, ska, alternative rock and even a bit of classical fingerpicked guitar thrown in.