# The Best Minutemen Guitar Solos

> The 14 best Minutemen guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Corona (1984), then This Ain't No Picnic and Cohesion. Every video starts at the solo.

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D. Boon's trebly, scratchy guitar mixed punk urgency with funk, jazz and folk. His short, stabbing leads fit the Minutemen's one-minute songs perfectly. Rolling Stone named him one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and his fearless style became a model for American indie rock.

Informed by: [Louder](https://www.loudersound.com/features/minutemen-10-best-songs-according-to-bassist-mike-watt-interview), [Premier Guitar](https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/forgotten-heroes-d-boon), [Diffuser](https://diffuser.fm/best-minutemen-songs/), [Rolling Stone Australia](https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/250-greatest-guitarists-all-time-51028/d-boon-3-51108/)

1. [Corona](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-corona/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
2. [This Ain't No Picnic](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-this-ain-t-no-picnic/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
3. [Cohesion](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-cohesion/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
4. [Viet Nam](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-viet-nam/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
5. [The Glory of Man](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-the-glory-of-man/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1985
6. [Anxious Mo-Fo](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-anxious-mo-fo/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1983
7. [The Red and the Black](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-the-red-and-the-black/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
8. [Themselves](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-themselves/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
9. [Paranoid Chant](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-paranoid-chant/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1980
10. [Jesus and Tequila](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-jesus-and-tequila/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
11. [Toadies](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-toadies/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
12. [Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-political-song-for-michael-jackson-to-sing/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
13. [Two Beads at the End](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-two-beads-at-the-end/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1984
14. [King of the Hill](https://greatestsolos.com/song/minutemen-king-of-the-hill/) — Minutemen · solo by D. Boon · 1985

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