''3-Way Tie (For Last)'' is the fourth and final full-length album recorded by the American
punk band Minutemen. It is particularly notable for featuring several
covers of songs by bands such as
the Urinals,
Meat Puppets
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,
Blue Öyster Cult
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,
Creedence Clearwater Revival, and
Roky Erickson.
The last song, a cover of Erickson's "Bermuda," was sung over the phone by
Mike Watt.
The album was released very shortly before the death of
D. Boon, who also painted the cover. Watt collaborated with
Black Flag bassist
Kira Roessler
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on four tracks ("Political Nightmare", "No One", "Stories", and "What Is It?").
Around the time that the album was recorded, Watt and Roessler formed
Dos
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DOS may also refer to:
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* Data over signalling (DoS), multiplexing data onto a signalling channel
* Denial-of-service attack (DoS), an attack on a communicat ...
.
The album included ballots for listeners to vote on the track list for what would become ''
Ballot Result''.
Track listing
;Side D.
#"Price of Paradise" (
Boon
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Boon (game), a trick-taking card game
* ''Boon'' (novel), a 1915 satirical work by H. G. Wells
* ''Boon'' (TV series), a British television series starring Michael Elphick
* The Ultimate Boo ...
) - 3:38
#"Lost" (
Curt Kirkwood
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) - 2:33
#"The Big Stick" (Boon) - 2:34
#"Political Nightmare" (Roessler, Watt) - 3:56
#"Courage" (Boon) - 2:35
#"
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
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" (
John Fogerty) - 2:30
;Side Mike
#"The Red and the Black" (
Bloom, Bouchard, Pearlman) - 4:09
#"Spoken Word Piece" (
Watt
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) - 1:07
#"No One" (
Kira Roessler
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, Watt) - 3:29
#"Stories" (Roessler, Watt) - 1:36
#"What Is It?" (Roessler, Watt) - 1:51
#"Ack Ack Ack" (
Johansen, Jones, Talley) - 0:27
#"Just Another Soldier" (Boon) - 1:58
#"Situations at Hand" (Watt) - 1:23
#"Hittin' the Bong" (Watt) - 0:41
#"Bermuda" (
Roky Erickson) - 1:41
Personnel
;Minutemen
*
D. Boon – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, piano
*
Mike Watt – bass, vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
*
George Hurley – drums
with:
*
Joe Baiza – guitar ("Situations At Hand")
*
Ethan James – Linn drum ("What Is It?"), Vietnam War battlefield tape ("Spoken Word Piece")
Charts
References
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Minutemen (band) albums
1985 albums
SST Records albums