Written by the Minutemen and first appeared on their life-altering double LP "Double Nickels On The Dime" in 1984.
Mike Watt says "Toadies I wrote after reading the memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovic. He was a composer in Soviet. Stalin liked him, eh? It's a very creepy thing. And the cat surrounds himself with toadies. No experience I had. The ideas of toadies is all around. Any scene. It's human - this dick is not the boss, but he's a little bit above you. That's all he needs. Like my pop says to me, I have yet to see shit roll uphill. The whole C.Y.A. - cover your ass - it's just the way humans organize. Then, humans are funny."
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