Contemplating the Engine Room

by Mike Watt

Contemplating the Engine Room cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 October 1997
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 53:37
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Mike Watt delivers a towering, deeply personal concept album intertwining naval themes with reflections on his own family and the Minutemen's history. The music is dense, heavy alternative rock and post-hardcore, offering a raw, aquatic exploration of grief and childhood memory.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, aquatic, grief, family, childhood, storytelling, bassy, literate, DIY

Tracklist

  1. In the Engine Room (4:53)
  2. Red Bluff (3:29)
  3. The Bluejacket's Manual (2:15)
  4. Pedro Bound! (3:22)
  5. The Boilerman (5:02)
  6. Black Gang Coffee (3:27)
  7. Topsiders (2:24)
  8. No One Says Old Man (To the Old Man) (4:11)
  9. Fireman Hurley (2:18)
  10. Liberty Calls! (4:39)
  11. In the Bunk Room / Navy Wife (2:00)
  12. Crossing the Equator (4:19)
  13. Breaking the Choke Hold (3:43)
  14. Wrapped Around the Screw (2:38)
  15. Shore Duty (4:50)

Credits

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