Badges (song)

Badges (song)

Infobox Song
Name = Badges


Caption = Front cover of "The Politics of Time"
Type =
Artist = The Minutemen
alt Artist =
Album = The Politics of Time
Published = 1984
Released = 1984
track_no = 16
Recorded = ca. 1983
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 0:35
Writer = Mike Watt
Composer =
Label = New Alliance/SST
Producer = Mike Watt
Chart position =
Tracks =
prev = Times
prev_no = 15
next = Fodder
next_no = 17
Misc =

"Badges" is a song by American punk/alternative trio The Minutemen, which was composed by the band's bassist Mike Watt.

The song was inspired by the famous quote from the 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", albeit by way of its often-mangled and more well-known variation of the line.

Although it is one of the band's best known songs, ironically (and sadly, due to guitarist D. Boon's untimely death in a December 1985 automobile accident) the Minutemen never recorded it in the studio, although the group were planning to do a live-in-the-studio recording of the song for a proposed half-studio, half-live three-record set, "3 Men, 6 Sides, All Live".

A demo recording of the song featuring only Watt playing bass and singing appears on the band's 1984 odds-and-sods album "The Politics of Time", a rehearsal tape of the band playing the song appears on the posthumous live album "Ballot Result" (1987), and a live video of the group performing the song appears in the video documentary for "The Tour", an SST Records videocassette release that was only in print briefly.


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