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Originally Posted by elphenor
D. Boon's admiration for Wire and razor thin guitar tone put them much more in line with post punk groups than ever with the contemporary post hardcore bands or any of the post hardcore that followed really
especially in the LA hardcore scene they were like aliens by all accounts
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Definitely DNOTD is way more post-punk, but I've always thought of What Causes a Man to Start Fires? and Surviving You Always as having a lot in common sound-wise. Minutemen's early stuff is generally harder than their later even with their more airy guitar tones.