Post-Mersh Vol. 1
Post-Mersh, Vol. 1 is a compilation album by influential punk rock/alternative trio The Minutemen. It contains both The Punch Line (1981) and What Makes a Man Start Fires? (1983) respectively. These two releases are considered the first two "full length" albums recorded by the band.
Track listing
Tracks 1-18 are The Punch Line
Tracks 19-36 are What Makes a Man Start Fires?
- Search – 0:51 (Hurley, Watt)
- Tension – 1:18 (Tamburovich, Watt)
- Games – 1:01 (Boon, Watt)
- Boiling – 0:58 (Hurley, Watt)
- Disguises – 0:45 (Boon)
- The Struggle – 0:40 (Boon)
- Monuments – 0:48 (Hurley, Watt)
- Ruins – 0:49 (Hurley, Watt)
- Issued – 0:38 (Hurley, Watt)
- The Punch Line – 0:40 (Watt)
- Song For El Salvador – 0:31 (Boon)
- History Lesson – 0:37 (Boon)
- Fanatics – 0:30 (Watt)
- No Parade – 0:50 (Boon)
- Straight Jacket – 0:58 (Watt)
- Gravity – 0:55 (Hurley, Watt)
- Warfare – 0:54 (Hurley, Watt)
- Static – 0:50 (Boon, Watt)
- Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs – 1:27 (Watt)
- One Chapter in the Book – 1:00 (Watt)
- Fake Contest – 1:44 (Watt)
- Beacon Sighted Through Fog – 1:00 (Watt)
- Mutiny in Jonestown – 1:06 (Boon/Watt)
- East Wind/Faith – 2:10 (Hurley/Watt)
- Pure Joy – 1:30 (Hurley/Watt)
- '99 – 1:00 (Hurley/Watt)
- The Anchor – 2:30 (Hurley/Watt)
- Sell or Be Sold – 1:45 (Boon/Watt)
- The Only Minority – 1:00 (Boon/Watt)
- Split Red – 0:52 (Boon/Watt)
- Colors – 2:05 (Boon/Watt)
- Plight – 1:37 (Boon/Watt)
- The Tin Roof – 1:08 (Watt)
- Life As A Rehearsal – 1:35 (Watt)
- This Road – 1:26 (Watt)
- Polarity – 1:44 (Watt)
Musical personnel
- D. Boon - guitar, vocals
- Mike Watt - bass, vocals
- George Hurley - drums, oil drums, lead vocal in the middle of "Ruins"
- Joe Baiza - additional guitar on "Beacon Sighted Through Fog" and "East Wind/Faith".
