Contemplating The Engine Room

Mike Watt • 15 songs • 54 min

Contemplating the Engine Room is a punk rock opera by Minutemen veteran Mike Watt. Released in 1997, the album is a punk rock song cycle that uses navy life as an extended metaphor for both Watt's family history and his first band, the Minutemen. The album was greeted with a positive response. The cover art features a picture of Watt's father in his Navy uniform. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemp...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

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In the Engine Room