Project: Mersh is the penultimate release (final extended play, or EP release) from the American punk rock trio Minutemen before D. Boon's death later that year in an auto accident.

The cover art is a painting by D. Boon depicting a meeting of three exhausted record label executives in which one of them says "I got it! We'll have them write hit songs!" Project: Mersh was a sarcastic and ironic attempt at a commercial (or "mersh") recording rather than their "econo" method. Though, as bassist Mike Watt pointed out in a 1985 Bard College interview, "It's only mersh because we said it was mersh, it only sold about half as much as our art record Double Nickels on the Dime." All six songs surpass the two-minute mark ("More Spiel" is nearly six minutes long) and incorporate verses, choruses, and hooks, and fade outs in contrast to nearly all the band's previous recordings.

1 "The Cheerleaders" (D. Boon) 2 "King of the Hill" (Boon) 3 "Hey Lawdy Mama" (Larry Byrom, Jerry Edmonton & John Kay of Steppenwolf) 4 "Take Our Test" (Mike Watt) 5 "Tour-Spiel" (Watt) 6 "More Spiel" (Watt)

Minutemen are dope as shit